Sorry sorry sorry! Not a new chapter…yet!
I am still tossing around some ideas and also seeing what kinds of responses/reactions I get from what I have so far…seeing if I should keep it alive..if there is enough interest in the story anymore.
What I did want to post was an explanation of the latest chapter, which has raised one particular repeating question:
Can a goal post actually be torn from the ground???
Why, yes it can!
Back in the good ol' days when Chuck Amato was a good coach and Philip Rivers hadn't graduated yet, NCSU had one hell of a football team! One particular game, and I honestly can't recall if it was against UNC or FSU, the goal post was ripped out of the ground of Carter-Finley Stadium and carried several miles on Hillsboro St in Raleigh, NC. A lot of damage was done as people and the goal post ran into cars parked on the street and I know several people walked away with injuries..but as far as I know no one was seriously hurt or killed, just a ton of expensive damage.
To put a goal post back in the ground was expensive enough!
I wasn't at that game, but I was on the 9th floor of a dormitory that was about a block away from Hillsboro St and you could hear the crowd carrying on and stuff being damaged..it was crazy!
Then the next season during a NCSU FSU game I was at, they tore the goal post down again! I stayed in the bleachers with a few friends (one was too drunk to join in the ruckus) and people were pushing and shoving like I described in my story. NCSU got wise after the first time or two though, and now the goalpost is collapsible…so if people tore it out of the ground it was easily put back in. However, they would not allow people to take the goalpost out of the stadium, and when people tried the police hosed everyone down with mace…nuts!
I don't know why people act that way, but it made for one fun chapter to write and one of the most memorable experiences of my life!
Those were the days *sigh*
Anyways thanks to you who have consistently reviewed what I post and I will hopefully get back into my writing groove tomorrow.
THANK YOU THANK YOU!
