Neugie’s Notes
Sorry to break from the “normal” sports stories, but humor always races to the top of the list as far as my writing priorities. This story came my way after one of my many walks through the halls and I just couldn’t resist.
So the football team is in action – their season opener no less – against Riverwood. It’s 3rd-and-8 and quarterback John Galloway is standing among his teammates in the huddle awaiting the next play. In comes Wes Fanning – and in his hand is a copy of the actual playbook.
“The play was too long to call,” Coach Ryan Livezey remembers.
“Coach Healy started telling me the play; then he just stopped and handed me the whole sheet,” Fanning recalled. “Finally, he just said ‘Take this piece of paper in, tell John to call play #7 and stuff the piece of paper in his pants.’”
“After hearing him, I didn’t know if John was supposed to call the play and stuff it in his pants or if he was supposed to call the play and I was supposed to stuff it in my pants. I just told him to stuff it in his.”
Regardless, things evidently worked out. The Bears won en route to an 8-2 regular season and their fifth straight trip to the playoffs.
Now, let’s move over to cross country and to senior Katie Keith. Get the picture: She has just run her last race her senior year at the state meet in Carrollton. She’s crossed the finish line, taken off her bib number, gotten her water, all that. She sees me (one of her coaches) out of the corner of her eye. Running faster than she’s ever run in all three years of her running career, she tells me, “Coach Dunn, I am NEVER going to do that EVER again!”
For the record, she may not race again but I have it on good authority she’s still jogging. Rumor has it, she and Megan Westmoreland went for a spin at Chastain Park just the other day.
Until next time,
“Behind every good man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
Dunn Neugebauer
Peace be yours, today and always
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