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Strutted through the Hartford Airport last night rocking my WF baseball cap – WF stands for Wake Forest.
Also stands for – just as an aside – Wally Ferguson, Wendy Fulmer, and Winning Football.
Drew some unpleasant stares. Not sure if it was my off-putting strut or the WF on my hat. Felt like I was on the Wake football team rolling into town the night before the game where I would be rough-housing with some UConn boys tomorrow on the gridiron. Felt like a tight end. Everyone could tell I had innate athleticism, good hands, and bulky thighs. Or maybe, they conjectured all in unison, I was a defensive end from the Midwest somewhere like Iowa or Nebraska.
Local UConners in the airport looked like they were concerned maybe I was on the team and was going to catch 9 or 10 passes tomorrow and 2 TDs including the game-winner after which I would dunk the football over the goalpost and sprint off the field straight to Geno Auriemma’s office to tell him Caitlin Clark is better than Paige Buechers and everybody knows it.
This was me tonight, flying into town to do some damage on the UConn football field tomorrow. Feeling haughty and naughty.
Airport townies grew wary. They couldn’t figure out how a man as old as me could be a college football player. Something didn’t add up.
“Maybe Wake picked him up in the transfer portal,” one bystander said. “Wonder how much they paid him. Wonder where he played last season: Fresno State, maybe, or Valparaiso. Looks kind of like a Midwesterner and a vagabond all at once.”
They weren’t sure. When you’re not sure you don’t feel at ease with anything.
I made everyone in the Connecticut Airport feel disconcerted. Or so I imagined.
“Look at that big guy in the Wake Forest hat,” you could see them whispering to each other. “Doesn’t UConn play Wake tomorrow in football? That dude is big. Looks like a football player. But he’s got gray hair and not much on top and a belly. But still, could be a college student, maybe a late bloomer Baby Boomer. Who knows? The transfer portal has changed everything in college football. Maybe old men are getting paid to play. Everything’s on the table.”
This is what you call intimidating the opponent. I just kept struttin’ through the airport turnstiles, to baggage claim, and could see people texting messages like this: “There’s some guy in the airport with a Wake Forest hat on. Looks like a football player. Really quite big. The weird thing was that he was by himself. His teammates must have flown on a different plane.”
Another said: “Wait, that guy looks like Sammy Sportface, the sports blogger with the Riley Skinner is a Winner jersey with two numbers on it: 11 and 55.”
“Why two numbers?” another asked.
“Who knows? Maybe he’s two different people. If that’s the case, UConn’s in trouble tomorrow.”
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