Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:17:48 -0400
From: Mike <woody757@comcast.net>
Subject: Why Me ?

This story is based on real life events and only the names have been to
protect the innocent.

It was Halloween Night which was also the night of the Franklin High
Homecoming games (soccer and football).  I guess that it would be best to
introduce myself at this time, my name is John age 17 6'3" 255 lbs brown
hair and eyes with a full grown beard, and I was drafted by the Yankees in
the Spring Draft of 1974 along with my cousin Brain who was drafted by the
Brewers.  As a high school baseball catcher and football starting
linebacker with full baseball and football scholarships just were waiting
for me to sign one.

It had started off just like any other high school football game with an
eerie mist hovering around the field at game time.  Everything was just
fine until I made a tackle of the opponents quarterback, and than
everything went black after somebody hit my helmet from the side knocking
me out.  To tell you the truth I had to ask a lot of people what happened
after I was knocked out.

It was just before Thanksgiving when I did finally wake up to find out that
I had been transported to the local Shock Trauma Hospital, and had been in
a coma ever since I was blindsided by some kid that had originally missed
me to block only to have him spear me in the side of the head.  When I woke
up from the coma it was still black, and I was not sure what had caused it.
The only thing that I knew was that they both of my eyes covered for some
unknown reason.

Later that day the doctors came around to tell me what had happened and to
explain why my eyes where covered.  After they told me the reason the only
thing I could think of was," I really got the trick that night". It did not
matter to me that I had been unconscious for almost 3 weeks, and that I
also had 3 weeks of class work to make up.  The class work did not bother
me as I scored 1600 on my SAT tests that I had taken in August of 1975.
Lets just say that I had been offered full scholarships to Michigan,
Stanford, UCLA, Yale, Tulane and Princeton based on my grade point average
of 4.5 ( I was taking all honors classes) along with my perfect score on
the SAT tests.

I was not sure whether or not I really wanted to hear what the doctors had
to say, so I literally tuned them out and began to think about how fucked
up my life was going to be just because some punk that belonged on Junior
Varsity instead of playing against me that night at our homecoming game.
Yeah he and his family would pay dearly as I had determined that if I could
not play baseball or football in college, because of his childish actions
that I was going to sue his family and school for so much money.

Sleep was coming over me again for some unknown reason, but I felt safe
when ever I was asleep, so I let it take over me for an unknown amount of
time again.  The only thing that I knew was that I wanted to be home in my
bed on Thanksgiving Day since I really did not have anything to be thankful
for that year.

I decided that I was going to put all of my thoughts down on tape, and to
have somebody type up what I had dictated on Thanksgiving and Christmas,
after The New Year Holiday and ending up after Easter Break leading up to
my graduation on June 1, 1975.

TBC. I plan on submitting the next installment around the Thanksgiving
Holiday.  In the mean time have a HAPPY AND SAFE HALLOWEEN ...TRICK OR
TREAT!!!!!