Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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#9,429
August 17, 1957
Fan gets hit Twice by foul ball...........
Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn hit a foul ball that struck “Alice Roth squarely in the face, breaking her nose,” writes Daven Hiskey. “The game was then paused as medics came in to tend to Roth. As they were carrying her away on a stretcher, play was resumed and Ashburn fouled off the first pitch thrown to him. This foul subsequently struck Roth as she was being carried off by the medics.”

The second foul ball broke a bone in her knee. “The fan, Alice Roth, was the wife of the sports editor for The Philadelphia Bulletin who was there with her two grandsons,” Bill Chuck notes. “There was blood everywhere.”

Fortunately, this story has a happy ending. “The Phils treated the family royally after the event and the kids were invited into the clubhouse and given free tickets and an autographed baseball,” Chuck adds. “After that, the kids visited Roth in the hospital and one reportedly asked, ‘Grandma, do you think you could go to an Eagles game and get hit in the face with a football?””

The next day Ashburn visited Roth in the hospital and they became friends. Henceforth, Roth chose to sit in the left field bleachers, well out of harm’s way. On top of that, Roth’s son eventually became the Phillies’ batboy.



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SugarCC said:
I only drink it neat, always have. I sometimes call a drink, straight or otherwise, a cocktail. Old habit. Had an old pipeliner/mentor, over 20 years ago...he would call anything with alcohol in it a cocktail, as long as you were kicking back, relaxing, knowing "you had done the day, the way the day was suppose to be done". I picked it up from him, and it stuck. You'd go to his motel room after a long day's work, he'd invite you in and ask, like clockwork, "Cocktail?" All he ever drank was Rare Breed.

Strange, the little things one remembers.
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Now Rare Breed is right down my alley. I love Wild Turkey
 
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gainesvol82 said:
Yep, we might have. I miss Coach Pennington from Halls Middle. He was huge.....biggest calves I'd ever seen but he was so nice. I was friends with his son Chad due to a best friend being Chad's next door neighbor and another best friend living about 4 doors down.....I was always happy to see Chad's success in the NFL.

He was always nice to us that were several years younger and would play basketball with us. His sister was also quite pretty and went to Halls (at least for a while) instead of Webb.

Brickey was an interesting school because about half went to Halls and the other half went to Powell. I'm just glad I didn't go to Gibbs. Lol, my wife's mother and Aunt had a younger friend that dated Kenny Chesney (Tebow loving douche). She was pretty certain that he didn't like women but maybe it was just her, lol.
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I had Coach Pennington in middle school for gym. I'll never forget some of his sayings. I can still hear them in my head...lol. Mrs. Pennington (or Mrs. P as she often liked to be called) was my 10th grade English teacher at the high school. Andrea was a year behind me in school. Chad went to Webb for obvious reasons (sports). It provided him a bigger spotlight and allowed him to run an offense that featured the QB, unlike Halls, who ran the Wing-T at the time, and successfully I might add. Just not the offense you want to play in if you have aspirations of playing at the next level.
 
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KB5252 said:
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It's been a rough year on this farm, we've welcomed new additions, took in a couple of sick animals we really couldn't afford to..... But as always we make it work. Lost a couple of our goats, one a surprise, the other was a long term cancer case nobody wanted a few years ago.

When we were still able to rescue we always made a promise to our animals. That we would offer them the best life we possibly could and relieve their pain when they told us it was time.

Tonight the longest tenured animal on our farm told us it was time. She's been here since the beginning, the prior owners of this place took her in when her previous owner realized she couldn't be ridden....tossed away like so many are.

The distinguished lady on the left pictured above is Charlotte from a few years ago. She was already an old girl in that photo, around 30 years. It's how I like to remember her, before going nightblind and then completely blind a year later. She had been stalled the last year because she couldn't adjust to the paddock no matter how hard we tried. With the help of our vet she went peacefully this evening after going down.

Our old farmhouse in the distance with the sunrise seems fitting, Chase that sunrise and keep the darkness behind you old girl......Rest Easy!

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You are good people.
 
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apsuhead said:
Do we have a kicker in the 2025 class? This kid from Gallatin casually put the kickoff way up through the uprights at Clarksville High last night. From the opposite 40 yard line, a 70 yard field goal. It didn’t barely just clear the uprights either …
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think we are going to PWO--> NIL our kickers from here on out imo. this kid would be a good candidate and im sure hes on our radar
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
Scotch and soda
Scotch and water
Scotch on the rocks
Scotch neat

And

Rob Roy


All the other concoctions sound like a waste of good Scotch. And that’s coming from someone who doesn’t even like Scotch. 😎
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Now your bias towards my game threads makes sense. You're just another VN degenerate boozer!
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