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Be objective. Examine the fact pattern below dispassionately, as if you don’t really care.
Who is most to blame for losing the big game?
Was it Rudy, who held Linwood Davis to 37 points, who made Linwood look like Michael Jordan before Michael Jordan?
Or should the blame be thrown at Sportface, who took 54 field goal attempts and converted 4?
Or consider what Spoog did, which was nothing: zero points, zero rebounds, zero assists?
Tomorrow at high noon, in a dark back room shut off by curtains in downtown Washington, D.C., these three former basketball players will unpack these questions 48 years after they choked in the most important event of their lives, a legendary loss – a choke to be honest – in the D.C. city championship. Saint Paul & Augustine 79, Little Flower 21.
All three players have suffered immeasurable psychological damage since humiliating themselves, their entire Little Flower parish including Monsignor Coyne, and all of Montgomery County in that pathetic performance. The embarrassing outing shattered the three players – now old, balding and mentally declining men – so deeply that they have not met for lunch together one time to open up about their feelings about that game.
Until tomorrow.
In less than 24 hours they’ll confront their demons, criticize each other, blame each other, chomp T-bone steaks soaked in A1 sauce, get up, leave, and never have any contact with one another for the rest of their lives.
“It’s really not a good idea for the three of us to get together to talk about what happened in that game,” said Sammy Sportface. “But I figured what the hell – why not hash it all out so we can move on with our lives and get some closure. The whole lunch is really just about cleansing ourselves of that day, that game, the championship, that trophy, that humiliation, that has been eating away at our souls ever since. Forty-eight years later, the pain remains beyond excruciating, like being lit on fire. It’s time to let it all out and close the most ugly experience the three of us have ever had.”
Rudy blurted this out tonight:
“No way I’m meeting Spoog and Sportface for lunch. What a fool Sportface is to believe I was actually going to show up. The guy is so gullible. About the game, all I have to say – and this is the story I’ve always told – is Sportface tried to shoot his way out of his slump in the biggest game of our lives and he failed miserably.”
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