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PCIntern (23,051 posts)I have a great Herschel Walker story...I did not post this before the election, because I didn’t want anyone to think that I had any adulation for him, but now that he’s lost, I can tell the story which is a bit long, but not uninteresting.Many years ago when I was teaching at Penn Dental School, I was privileged to teach two football stars who both became dentists. We made special arrangements for their curriculum and their clinical work so that they could play ball in their respective seasons, one in the NFL, and the other in the USFL and complete their work on time. Both were extremely bright and interestingly, both graduated from Notre Dame and were stars in the pros. One of the students was named Joe Restic, Jr., whose father had been the Harvard coach. Joe was a punter and free safety for the New Orleans Breakers of the USFL and was one of the nicest people you could ever meet. As far as his physical description, he was very tall with that enormous, powerful upper body, that these players have and clearly muscular legs which were transcendentally strong; you could see it through his clinical scrubs, he was a great raconteur and told his wonderful story which follows.His team was playing the New York Generals, which of course was Donald Trump‘s team, and on one play, Herschel Walker had the ball, and was running down the sideline and Joe got a bead on him , but as he’s approaching him, he realizes that it’s right in front of the bench and he doesn’t want to drive himself and Walker into the bench and hurt one or both of them so when he begins to tackle them, he hits him full tilt, wraps himself around his waist and almost unbelievably , Walker does not get deflected or misses a single stride so he drops down to his thighs and figures that he’ll just get him down at that point and no matter how tightly he’s wrapping himself around his legs Walker just keeps running. It wasn’t until he got down to his ankles that he was able to trip him up and finally get him down. Now Joe was a star player on the team that was of championship caliber, and thought he had dealt with everything until he had seen this. He said it was transcendental experienceParenthetically, the other player. I taught was Ken McAfee, who was tight end for the 49ers for some time, and then went to Buffalo where he knew OJ pretty well. after Ken graduated, I ran into him during the OJ trial weirdly coincidentally , and asked him what he thought of that situation , and he just shrugged his shoulders and maintained that political silence that athletes and cops possess, and made a non-committal throwaway remark. So much for inside information.I will tell you that both of these guys were at the top of their class: no mean feat under any circumstances and were very gifted and impressive students.Anyway that’s my story…and I’m sticking to it.https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217441973
