Touchdown

Ken’s Story
Sam lettered in football as a junior and a senior. He even scored one touchdown his senior year. The Bulldogs were whipping Syracuse quite handily but the Rockets scored a TD and tried an onside kick. The kicker took a swipe at the ball in the style needed for an onside recovery, but he missed the mark and barely grazed the leather. Sam picked up the ball after it fell off the tee and began streaking for the end zone, two referees, and no one else, following alongside. One referee was heard to say, “Can he do that?” The other replied, “He’s doing it, isn’t he?” It was a free ball, of course, and the touchdown counted.

Sam’s Version
True story. The next morning I got up early, drove to Nebraska City and took the SAT. Did pretty well and earned a four-year Regent’s Scholarship (full tuition) to the University of Nebraska.

Best two consecutive days of my first seventeen years.