August 15th.For football players,a day that will live in infamy.This was the day that double sessions began.For you public league guys,that's 2 practices a day.It was always a hundred degrees and you just ran till you dropped. Then ran more till you dropped. All we had was a 5 gallon bucket of Brother Jerome's papaya juice...which if you were in the rear of the line the bucket by then had grass,mud,
sweat and snot in it but you loved every drop.Between sessions we would grab a hand dummy to lay on in the cool basement floor of the school only to have to put on wet stuff to do it all again. There were no water breaks back then.They gave us salt tablets,which they could have stuck up their ***.My team mates Tom Schumacher and Chuck Seifert and I somehow made it through that day,only to have to wake up the next morning feeling as sore as you have ever been in your life and have to do it all over again.
As terrible a day this was,what we wouldn't do to be able to return there one more time.
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sweat and snot in it but you loved every drop.Between sessions we would grab a hand dummy to lay on in the cool basement floor of the school only to have to put on wet stuff to do it all again. There were no water breaks back then.They gave us salt tablets,which they could have stuck up their ***.My team mates Tom Schumacher and Chuck Seifert and I somehow made it through that day,only to have to wake up the next morning feeling as sore as you have ever been in your life and have to do it all over again.
As terrible a day this was,what we wouldn't do to be able to return there one more time.
A Chapter in my new book, 3 DOWNS AND A CLOUD OF DUST...available at....
www.chicagocatholicleaguefootball.com
