Joe Pa
Banhammer'd
Turned away, were you?
I feel his pain...except mine is in the backdoor.....
Turned away, were you?
I have a hat signed by the 1996 team after I got to meet the team in the locker room. Ten year old's dream.
I feel his pain...except mine is in the backdoor.....
I've got one of Phonso's game used gloves, autographed. I never thought to get a basketball signed, even when I was working with the team
A buddy of mine has the glove Chip Vaughn wore when he blocked the FG against Duke.
I'm still convinced that without that blocked "chip" shot FG, we're not ACC Champs!
Now-defunct Sport magazine did a feature on Timmy before his senior year; really played up his island roots. There's a full-page photo of him in his Wake uniform wading out into the ocean, and I got him to autograph it prior to the Wake/Duke football game that year. I think we were preseason #1 or 2, and the university had a tent set up outside the stadium for team autographs. The line was so long they had no chance of getting everyone an autograph, so team members finally spread out and went down the line so everyone could get at least one autograph. Duncan stayed in the tent, so I went behind the thing and snuck in; no way I was going back to my 10 year-old after over an hour in line with a Ken Herbst autograph.
The excitement that year was unbelievable, capped by a 20 point blowout of the Holes on national t.v. on a Saturday night (I'll always rememember the surprise of a snow shower when exiting the Joel). We rode high until a Saturday or two later when we "lost" to Maryland b/c of a 3 at the buzzer that should have been a two; seems like we lost our mo afterwards and what could have been turned into a typical Wake Fade.
(sorry for getting off-topic; just realized what I did there)
Fuck Loren Profit