- Jim, he turned and put the ball right into the big ol’ belly of Randy Anaya, and Randy took it with the head of steam he had built up and carried it right over Johnny Simms in the center of the Sixers’ line and into the endzone!
- Pata Ramirez on to kick the extra point, it’s up, and it’s off the upright… it’s good! I couldn’t tell at first, but then I saw the one official on the left give the signal.
- You know, I think that’s Randy’s third or fourth touchdown this season in those goal-to-go situations. Coach Springs has used him more and more on offense these last couple of games, particularly in short yardage situations.
- You’re right, Tommy. Randy Anaya’s carried the football eleven times this season, he’s averaging two point two yards a carry, but every Cary has gone for either a first down or a touchdown. Good to see him getting that kind of run.
- This second score for the Razorbacks is brought to you by Doscher’s IGA, your local grocer right here in Walhalla, with full service produce and with Marilou and DeAnna still behind the butcher counter, you know Doscher’s IGA is a place you can trust for fresh food for you and your family. Not just better in your fridge, Doscher’s is still winning on price, too!
- Razorback football on WASC 97.3 is also brought to you by Reggie Smith Cadillac Buick Chevrolet and GMC. Reggie says why don’tcha come down to the County’s biggest seller of fine new and used automobiles to have a look at a truck that’ll get you up and down the mountains every day. Remember last year’s big snow? Reggie does, and that’s why he’s offering free undercarriage treatment with every purchase to keep the bottom of your vehicle free of rust for years to come, and $500 off lift kits with the purchase of selected new pickups to make sure that you can get through even the deepest drifts.
There was the clicking of a turn signal. In the background, as the announcers briefly sat in silence, a brassy arrangement of LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem rose from the home band.
- Here’s Pata Ramirez now, to kick the ball over to Ninety-Six. Football is lined up on the right hashmark, Walhalla running left to right from our perspective on the home East sideline. He’s lined up, and he’s put everything behind that one, it’s high and far and deep and caught at the eight or so by number 15 of Ninety-Six, that’s Theon Rice, he’s got the ball now carries it up across the fifteen, out to the twenty-five, where he’s met by a clump of Razorbacks and brought down after he pushed forward to maybe the twenty-nine yard line.
- That was a big kick of fifty-two yards and a return of twenty or twenty-one there, another good kickoff by Pata Ramirez, Jim. Looked like Johnny Lee Wilson in on the stop first, another strong pursuit there by the sophomore [he said it with three syllables, like it sounded SOF-a-more] who’s spent the season on special teams.
- I think that was Johnny Lee, I saw him over at the McDonalds on Greenville Highway the other day, that kid has hair more orange than the face of a love bug.
- This drive for Ninety-Six brought to you, as all opposing drives are, by American Liberty Bail Bonding, who’s got your back like the Walhalla defense. When the Sheriff comes for you, keep Liberty in your heart. 864-LIBERTY.
- Looks like Malone’s back in at quarterback for the Sixers, Jim.
- I think you’re right, Tommy, he must have passed the concussion test, because Jackson Malone is back in the ballgame now with 4:31 to go in the second quarter, and he takes over with the Sixers trailing your Walhalla Razorbacks by a score of fourteen to nine. First and ten from their twenty-nine, Malone hands to Theon Rice and he runs up through the right of the line where he’s met by Kayden Church and brought down after picking up four.
- Another solid run by Rice, a senior committed to SC State, who had the tackle on the very strange play that resulted in the Walhalla safety. Referees were talking to each other so long after that one I thought they were the General Assembly. Anyway, Rice’s looked very strong running the ball between the tackles tonight in particular, he’s cutting us up.
- Second and six and Malone is in the shotgun, Rice right next to him, two receivers and a tight end to his left, one split out to the right, that’s Louis Malloy. Malone takes a very high shotgun snap, does well to corral it, throws quickly over the middle and it’s wide of Louis Malloy, who dove for the football but couldn’t quite come up with it right around the line to gain.
- That Malloy is a big, big freshman, Jim. He’s gonna go places if he keeps his head on his shoulders. Malone was lucky to field the ball at all, though, he basically made an over the shoulder catch of that snap as he turned to chase it down.
- Coverage on the play was by a linebacker whose number I didn’t catch, and it’s third and a long five to go here for Ninety-Six. Malone in the gun again, takes a better snap, fakes the draw play to Rice, rolls out to the right, looking to make a play with his feet, I think, now doubles back to his left, pump fakes, [a loud cheer began] and is chased down from behind by Randy Anaya! What an absolutely tremendous pursuit by Anaya, Tommy!
- Ain’t tha the truth, Jim! He shed his block with a bull-rush, I think, and flushed Malone out of the pocket, kept moving to his left to take away the screen pass to Rice, and when Malone tried to reverse the field, Randy put the afterburners on and ran him down like he was fetching one of his prize gallinas! [he said it guy-IN-uhs] That’s his second sack of the night, and his fifteenth of the season.
There was another turn signal, and the distinctive higher pitch of tires switching from a paved road to a dry dirt road.
- Randy Anaya is a tremendous football player, Tommy, but you’re right, those chickens of his are the real deal. If we still had the cocks I bet he’d be the richest man in Oconee County already at the tender age of seventeen.
- Punt team is on here for Ninety-Six, who are getting very little traction against our defense tonight. Their punter is X’ander Quinn, and back for us is Mykel Letts. The snap is good, the punt is a massive high boomer into the beautiful night sky, kissing the lights before it falls to earth at the 35 or so of Walhalla and takes a Nintey-Six bounce down to the 29, where it goes out of bounds. That’s a 49-yard punt, no return on the play.
- Since we’ve got a little time here, and we’ve run all of our first-half promos already, I just want to take a moment to reach back and say a couple more things about Randy Anaya.
- I’ll let you do that, Tommy, but let me first say that Walhalla football is sponsored, as always, by your Walhalla All-Sports and Band Booster Club, who will be hosting Bingo in Modern Woodmen Hall next Tuesday night to raise money for the boys out here and the girls on the volleyball team, who are undefeated so far this season! Now what was it you were saying?
- I’ve been thinking some about Randy Anaya, Jim. Principal Mauldin told me when I had my weekly meeting with her to discuss the team that he’s going to the state fair with his chickens again. This is the fourth year in a row that he’s won the Oconee County 4-H prize for the chickens, and the second in which he’s beat real farmers for the top prize in the no-qualifications division. His birds are barn-burners.
- That boy knows birds like nobody’s business. I think over English and Spanish he speaks Chicken too.
Under the chuckling of the two announcers, the cheerleaders requesting a W, and an A, and an L cut into the background. The tires weren’t moving any longer, the low rumble of the truck’s V-6 competed with the radio, with crickets, and with a few straggling cicadas.
- Anyway, Tommy, we’re out there on our 29 yard line, Coach Haas sends out a standard-looking formation to see if maybe we can pick up a few more points before halftime, two backs behind Jonah Iger in the I-formation, a couple of receivers to the left. Takes the snap, hands the ball to the tailback Junior Simmons, he fights up the right side for a gain of two or three.
- Junior could stand to have a little more patience, I think, in finding holes to run through.
- Speaking of patience, it looks like Coach Haas is gonna let that run us to the two-minute warning. And when it comes to warnings, nobody has you covered like Randell Stevens and Daughters Alarm Services. With the absolute finest in agricultural, residential, and commercial alarm systems and state-of-the-art monitoring which allows you to see on your cell phone who it is is trying to get into your property, Randell Stevens and Daughters is your local authorized retailer of the nation’s leading brands and products in security. As reliable a warning as the two-minute warning, Randell Stevens and Daughters on Old Aiken Pike just past St. Gummarus Catholic Church.
- I’ve got one more think to say on the subject of Randy Anaya, Tommy, because I talked to him personally today. He told me he’s been thinking about a few schools he’s interested in, which have strong programs in Animal Science.
- One of them wouldn’t be your Alma Mater, would it?
- Well, one of them is NC A&T, who has a great program in poultry science, and the other one, you’re right, is my Alma Mater.
- Was there one person in the whole entire state of California who thought you could grow wine grapes in Oconee County, South Carolina?
- Well, you know, I had an old professor up there, who ran from the Nazis and set up in California to study grapes and he came from around Dresden, he said, which is colder than here and where they grow grapes to make wine so good it used to be in their national anthem. Anyway, I owe every bit of my success that I don’t owe to my own hard work to Dr. Menachem Finklebaum. As they said at his funeral, may his memory be a blessing. You got me tearing up, Jim, thinking of that man.
- Count the money you’ve made growing wine grapes in South Carolina, Tommy, and I think you’ll be fine. Speaking of counting, the play clock has started to tick again.
The truck’s engine was off now. The Walhalla band was just finishing the last bars of their traditional two-minute warning song, the state anthem “Carolina.” The soft cooing of a thousand chickens in their evening roost filtered through the night.
- And Jonah Iger gets the snap again, designed rollout to his right, drops a wide receiver screen into the sure hands of Mykel Letts, and Letts pushes forward across the 40 for a Walhalla first down at the 42 yard line.
- He hit the line to gain and was turning upfield and was corralled by an strong open-field tackle by that Nintey-Six defender there, couldn’t quite catch just who it was on the far side of the field. Anyway, I called up the Alma Mater and asked them if they remembered how much I’d sent them last year, and the young fella on the phone said he didn’t and I asked him what the name of the greenhouse he studied vine blights in was, and he said it was the “Little Tommy Robertson” greenhouse, Mr. Robertson and then I think he realized.
- First and ten is going to be first and fifteen from our 37 now, it looks like JT Eldridge forgot the snap count, because the whole team moved and he was just crouching there waiting to center the football, and that’s a false start.
- I told the fine lady three levels up that they were gonna admit our boy Randy Anaya and they were going to be happy about it because he was gonna walk onto the football team too, and that one day soon he’d have the finest chickens in the state of California.
- The snap to Iger in the gun happens this time, he steps up, good pass protection but he underthrows Junior Simmons on the little out route over the middle.
- My Spanish has never been as good as it should have been, Jim, but I’m gonna say this part right to Randy’s dad, who I know is listening on his way to Mr. Vo’s farm. Ricardo, tu hijo es inteligente. Él nos da orgullo a toda nuestra comunidad con sus gallinas. Sabemos que tu trabajas duro por la familia despues de la ausencia de su mujer.
- Iger has the football again, this time it’s an option play to the left, he pitches it to Junior Simmons and he’s off! Junior beat a man at the 45 and gets great lead blocks at the fifty and he’s into Nintey-Six territory before he’s ankle tackled at the thirty-one! One minute and six on the clock as it pauses for the chain gang.
- Ricardo, vamos a pagar el colegio de tu hijo. Pagamos todo por tu y por él. Great run by Junior Simmons there, but a better block by my oldest grandson Blake Richardson to spring him, he sealed off the linebacker in hot pursuit!
- What did you tell Randy’s pops, Tommy?
- You ought to learn Spanish, Jim,
There was the sound of the radio dial being adjusted.
- Maybe I ought to, but I won’t right now because it’s first and ten from the thirty-one of Ninety-Six and Walhalla’s gonna dance with he girl that brought ‘em, because it’s another handoff to Junior Simmons, he bounces it outside and picks up five before he’s tackled in bounds.
- We’ve got one time out left, Jim, and it looks like Coach Haas is gonna save it in case he has to send the field goal unit out there. At the moment it would be a 43-yarder, which might be the very edge of Pata Ramirez’s range.
- Second and five now, Iger in the gun with Simmons at his left. The snap is good and he’s looking for a man downfield, and now he takes off! It’s a designed run, a draw play up the middle, and it’s gone for good yardage!
- Six or seven and another first down, and they’re getting closer and closer to a makeable field goal. Enough time to take at least one more shot at the end zone, though, I think.
There was the sound of a text alert, and then another one. Then “La Jaula de Oro” by Los Tigres del Norte.
- Looks like Ninety-Six is gonna have to take timeout here, Tommy! What a mistake for them! They only had ten players on the field!
- Ya, that’s gonna give us really two chances now, with thirty-two seconds on the clock, to make something big happen!
“¡Bueno! Señor Vo, ¿todo bien?”
- First and ten from the nineteen of Ninety-Six! We’re in the I formation, and here’s the play-action, Iger looking downfield, has a man, and it’s dropped! Big Chris Karamilites dropped the football at about the eight yard line with about as much between him and the end zone as between Christ and Salvation, and that brings up second down.
There was the sound of weeping, softly at first and then louder, and it mingled with the cicadas and the crickets, and the chickens, and the sound of the cheerleaders and the crowd.
- Second drop from Big Chris today, I wonder if he had a hard time in geometry class. He’s been struggling a bit with geometry, but even Euclid had trouble with Geometry, didn’t he, Jim?
- You mean Big Chris’ daddy? I thought he dropped out before high school, even, and spent years as a bit of a ne’er-do-well before he went into the mills. Second down is going to be a run, Junior Simmons takes the ball around left end, and is just barely brought down near the line to gain! We’re going probably to take a timeout, it looks like, when the clock winds down some.
- The clock winds, the universe moves, we end up back in our hometowns forever, or somewhere else entirely, scrimmaging the ball and counting our chickens. Looks like Pata’s ready to come on, Jim, and try this thirty-six yarder.
- Pata Ramirez on to kick the extra point, it’s up, and it’s off the upright… it’s good! I couldn’t tell at first, but then I saw the one official on the left give the signal.
- You know, I think that’s Randy’s third or fourth touchdown this season in those goal-to-go situations. Coach Springs has used him more and more on offense these last couple of games, particularly in short yardage situations.
- You’re right, Tommy. Randy Anaya’s carried the football eleven times this season, he’s averaging two point two yards a carry, but every Cary has gone for either a first down or a touchdown. Good to see him getting that kind of run.
- This second score for the Razorbacks is brought to you by Doscher’s IGA, your local grocer right here in Walhalla, with full service produce and with Marilou and DeAnna still behind the butcher counter, you know Doscher’s IGA is a place you can trust for fresh food for you and your family. Not just better in your fridge, Doscher’s is still winning on price, too!
- Razorback football on WASC 97.3 is also brought to you by Reggie Smith Cadillac Buick Chevrolet and GMC. Reggie says why don’tcha come down to the County’s biggest seller of fine new and used automobiles to have a look at a truck that’ll get you up and down the mountains every day. Remember last year’s big snow? Reggie does, and that’s why he’s offering free undercarriage treatment with every purchase to keep the bottom of your vehicle free of rust for years to come, and $500 off lift kits with the purchase of selected new pickups to make sure that you can get through even the deepest drifts.
There was the clicking of a turn signal. In the background, as the announcers briefly sat in silence, a brassy arrangement of LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem rose from the home band.
- Here’s Pata Ramirez now, to kick the ball over to Ninety-Six. Football is lined up on the right hashmark, Walhalla running left to right from our perspective on the home East sideline. He’s lined up, and he’s put everything behind that one, it’s high and far and deep and caught at the eight or so by number 15 of Ninety-Six, that’s Theon Rice, he’s got the ball now carries it up across the fifteen, out to the twenty-five, where he’s met by a clump of Razorbacks and brought down after he pushed forward to maybe the twenty-nine yard line.
- That was a big kick of fifty-two yards and a return of twenty or twenty-one there, another good kickoff by Pata Ramirez, Jim. Looked like Johnny Lee Wilson in on the stop first, another strong pursuit there by the sophomore [he said it with three syllables, like it sounded SOF-a-more] who’s spent the season on special teams.
- I think that was Johnny Lee, I saw him over at the McDonalds on Greenville Highway the other day, that kid has hair more orange than the face of a love bug.
- This drive for Ninety-Six brought to you, as all opposing drives are, by American Liberty Bail Bonding, who’s got your back like the Walhalla defense. When the Sheriff comes for you, keep Liberty in your heart. 864-LIBERTY.
- Looks like Malone’s back in at quarterback for the Sixers, Jim.
- I think you’re right, Tommy, he must have passed the concussion test, because Jackson Malone is back in the ballgame now with 4:31 to go in the second quarter, and he takes over with the Sixers trailing your Walhalla Razorbacks by a score of fourteen to nine. First and ten from their twenty-nine, Malone hands to Theon Rice and he runs up through the right of the line where he’s met by Kayden Church and brought down after picking up four.
- Another solid run by Rice, a senior committed to SC State, who had the tackle on the very strange play that resulted in the Walhalla safety. Referees were talking to each other so long after that one I thought they were the General Assembly. Anyway, Rice’s looked very strong running the ball between the tackles tonight in particular, he’s cutting us up.
- Second and six and Malone is in the shotgun, Rice right next to him, two receivers and a tight end to his left, one split out to the right, that’s Louis Malloy. Malone takes a very high shotgun snap, does well to corral it, throws quickly over the middle and it’s wide of Louis Malloy, who dove for the football but couldn’t quite come up with it right around the line to gain.
- That Malloy is a big, big freshman, Jim. He’s gonna go places if he keeps his head on his shoulders. Malone was lucky to field the ball at all, though, he basically made an over the shoulder catch of that snap as he turned to chase it down.
- Coverage on the play was by a linebacker whose number I didn’t catch, and it’s third and a long five to go here for Ninety-Six. Malone in the gun again, takes a better snap, fakes the draw play to Rice, rolls out to the right, looking to make a play with his feet, I think, now doubles back to his left, pump fakes, [a loud cheer began] and is chased down from behind by Randy Anaya! What an absolutely tremendous pursuit by Anaya, Tommy!
- Ain’t tha the truth, Jim! He shed his block with a bull-rush, I think, and flushed Malone out of the pocket, kept moving to his left to take away the screen pass to Rice, and when Malone tried to reverse the field, Randy put the afterburners on and ran him down like he was fetching one of his prize gallinas! [he said it guy-IN-uhs] That’s his second sack of the night, and his fifteenth of the season.
There was another turn signal, and the distinctive higher pitch of tires switching from a paved road to a dry dirt road.
- Randy Anaya is a tremendous football player, Tommy, but you’re right, those chickens of his are the real deal. If we still had the cocks I bet he’d be the richest man in Oconee County already at the tender age of seventeen.
- Punt team is on here for Ninety-Six, who are getting very little traction against our defense tonight. Their punter is X’ander Quinn, and back for us is Mykel Letts. The snap is good, the punt is a massive high boomer into the beautiful night sky, kissing the lights before it falls to earth at the 35 or so of Walhalla and takes a Nintey-Six bounce down to the 29, where it goes out of bounds. That’s a 49-yard punt, no return on the play.
- Since we’ve got a little time here, and we’ve run all of our first-half promos already, I just want to take a moment to reach back and say a couple more things about Randy Anaya.
- I’ll let you do that, Tommy, but let me first say that Walhalla football is sponsored, as always, by your Walhalla All-Sports and Band Booster Club, who will be hosting Bingo in Modern Woodmen Hall next Tuesday night to raise money for the boys out here and the girls on the volleyball team, who are undefeated so far this season! Now what was it you were saying?
- I’ve been thinking some about Randy Anaya, Jim. Principal Mauldin told me when I had my weekly meeting with her to discuss the team that he’s going to the state fair with his chickens again. This is the fourth year in a row that he’s won the Oconee County 4-H prize for the chickens, and the second in which he’s beat real farmers for the top prize in the no-qualifications division. His birds are barn-burners.
- That boy knows birds like nobody’s business. I think over English and Spanish he speaks Chicken too.
Under the chuckling of the two announcers, the cheerleaders requesting a W, and an A, and an L cut into the background. The tires weren’t moving any longer, the low rumble of the truck’s V-6 competed with the radio, with crickets, and with a few straggling cicadas.
- Anyway, Tommy, we’re out there on our 29 yard line, Coach Haas sends out a standard-looking formation to see if maybe we can pick up a few more points before halftime, two backs behind Jonah Iger in the I-formation, a couple of receivers to the left. Takes the snap, hands the ball to the tailback Junior Simmons, he fights up the right side for a gain of two or three.
- Junior could stand to have a little more patience, I think, in finding holes to run through.
- Speaking of patience, it looks like Coach Haas is gonna let that run us to the two-minute warning. And when it comes to warnings, nobody has you covered like Randell Stevens and Daughters Alarm Services. With the absolute finest in agricultural, residential, and commercial alarm systems and state-of-the-art monitoring which allows you to see on your cell phone who it is is trying to get into your property, Randell Stevens and Daughters is your local authorized retailer of the nation’s leading brands and products in security. As reliable a warning as the two-minute warning, Randell Stevens and Daughters on Old Aiken Pike just past St. Gummarus Catholic Church.
- I’ve got one more think to say on the subject of Randy Anaya, Tommy, because I talked to him personally today. He told me he’s been thinking about a few schools he’s interested in, which have strong programs in Animal Science.
- One of them wouldn’t be your Alma Mater, would it?
- Well, one of them is NC A&T, who has a great program in poultry science, and the other one, you’re right, is my Alma Mater.
- Was there one person in the whole entire state of California who thought you could grow wine grapes in Oconee County, South Carolina?
- Well, you know, I had an old professor up there, who ran from the Nazis and set up in California to study grapes and he came from around Dresden, he said, which is colder than here and where they grow grapes to make wine so good it used to be in their national anthem. Anyway, I owe every bit of my success that I don’t owe to my own hard work to Dr. Menachem Finklebaum. As they said at his funeral, may his memory be a blessing. You got me tearing up, Jim, thinking of that man.
- Count the money you’ve made growing wine grapes in South Carolina, Tommy, and I think you’ll be fine. Speaking of counting, the play clock has started to tick again.
The truck’s engine was off now. The Walhalla band was just finishing the last bars of their traditional two-minute warning song, the state anthem “Carolina.” The soft cooing of a thousand chickens in their evening roost filtered through the night.
- And Jonah Iger gets the snap again, designed rollout to his right, drops a wide receiver screen into the sure hands of Mykel Letts, and Letts pushes forward across the 40 for a Walhalla first down at the 42 yard line.
- He hit the line to gain and was turning upfield and was corralled by an strong open-field tackle by that Nintey-Six defender there, couldn’t quite catch just who it was on the far side of the field. Anyway, I called up the Alma Mater and asked them if they remembered how much I’d sent them last year, and the young fella on the phone said he didn’t and I asked him what the name of the greenhouse he studied vine blights in was, and he said it was the “Little Tommy Robertson” greenhouse, Mr. Robertson and then I think he realized.
- First and ten is going to be first and fifteen from our 37 now, it looks like JT Eldridge forgot the snap count, because the whole team moved and he was just crouching there waiting to center the football, and that’s a false start.
- I told the fine lady three levels up that they were gonna admit our boy Randy Anaya and they were going to be happy about it because he was gonna walk onto the football team too, and that one day soon he’d have the finest chickens in the state of California.
- The snap to Iger in the gun happens this time, he steps up, good pass protection but he underthrows Junior Simmons on the little out route over the middle.
- My Spanish has never been as good as it should have been, Jim, but I’m gonna say this part right to Randy’s dad, who I know is listening on his way to Mr. Vo’s farm. Ricardo, tu hijo es inteligente. Él nos da orgullo a toda nuestra comunidad con sus gallinas. Sabemos que tu trabajas duro por la familia despues de la ausencia de su mujer.
- Iger has the football again, this time it’s an option play to the left, he pitches it to Junior Simmons and he’s off! Junior beat a man at the 45 and gets great lead blocks at the fifty and he’s into Nintey-Six territory before he’s ankle tackled at the thirty-one! One minute and six on the clock as it pauses for the chain gang.
- Ricardo, vamos a pagar el colegio de tu hijo. Pagamos todo por tu y por él. Great run by Junior Simmons there, but a better block by my oldest grandson Blake Richardson to spring him, he sealed off the linebacker in hot pursuit!
- What did you tell Randy’s pops, Tommy?
- You ought to learn Spanish, Jim,
There was the sound of the radio dial being adjusted.
- Maybe I ought to, but I won’t right now because it’s first and ten from the thirty-one of Ninety-Six and Walhalla’s gonna dance with he girl that brought ‘em, because it’s another handoff to Junior Simmons, he bounces it outside and picks up five before he’s tackled in bounds.
- We’ve got one time out left, Jim, and it looks like Coach Haas is gonna save it in case he has to send the field goal unit out there. At the moment it would be a 43-yarder, which might be the very edge of Pata Ramirez’s range.
- Second and five now, Iger in the gun with Simmons at his left. The snap is good and he’s looking for a man downfield, and now he takes off! It’s a designed run, a draw play up the middle, and it’s gone for good yardage!
- Six or seven and another first down, and they’re getting closer and closer to a makeable field goal. Enough time to take at least one more shot at the end zone, though, I think.
There was the sound of a text alert, and then another one. Then “La Jaula de Oro” by Los Tigres del Norte.
- Looks like Ninety-Six is gonna have to take timeout here, Tommy! What a mistake for them! They only had ten players on the field!
- Ya, that’s gonna give us really two chances now, with thirty-two seconds on the clock, to make something big happen!
“¡Bueno! Señor Vo, ¿todo bien?”
- First and ten from the nineteen of Ninety-Six! We’re in the I formation, and here’s the play-action, Iger looking downfield, has a man, and it’s dropped! Big Chris Karamilites dropped the football at about the eight yard line with about as much between him and the end zone as between Christ and Salvation, and that brings up second down.
There was the sound of weeping, softly at first and then louder, and it mingled with the cicadas and the crickets, and the chickens, and the sound of the cheerleaders and the crowd.
- Second drop from Big Chris today, I wonder if he had a hard time in geometry class. He’s been struggling a bit with geometry, but even Euclid had trouble with Geometry, didn’t he, Jim?
- You mean Big Chris’ daddy? I thought he dropped out before high school, even, and spent years as a bit of a ne’er-do-well before he went into the mills. Second down is going to be a run, Junior Simmons takes the ball around left end, and is just barely brought down near the line to gain! We’re going probably to take a timeout, it looks like, when the clock winds down some.
- The clock winds, the universe moves, we end up back in our hometowns forever, or somewhere else entirely, scrimmaging the ball and counting our chickens. Looks like Pata’s ready to come on, Jim, and try this thirty-six yarder.
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