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Old Sat Jul 12, 2003, 12:41pm
James Neil James Neil is offline
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Sorry about this guys .This post doesn't contribute to this thread but it conjured up memories of an experience I had at “Chad Browns Personal Touch Camp” this past Spring (Chad is a NFL Umpire). On the third and final Day all 90 of us Campers bussed over to UCLA to work a full contact scrimmage. I’m pretty excited to begin with but got down right shaky when I seen this will take place in a packed stadium along with marching band, cheerleaders and pom-pom’s girls (and boys 8^). I’m standing there looking like a dear in the headlights when Chad says “Jimmy, get in there”. I run onto the field, grab the ball to spot it and find myself surrounded by a bunch of extremely agitated trash-talking redwoods. I tell them “come-on guys go to your huddles“. All I get are looks that I interprat as “shut-up little-man” lol ...After my set of downs Chad meets me at the sideline. He bends over me (he’s about 6’5”) gets right in my face and softly says “Jimmy...what about the ineligibles down field man? ... That’s your call man ...you gots to make that call Jimmy !” . He turns, walks away and tosses his hands in the air muttering “there were ineligibles down field”. I’m thinking ineligibles? He!!... I don't even remember if they were wearing numbers let alone being downfield. And if they were, they were moving too fast for me to read them anyway. LOL . I figure I need to see 10,000 or so more snaps before my eyes adjust to this level 8^)
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