Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:52:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Jim Allen <jimbotejas@yahoo.com>
Subject: Shane in the Semi-Pros

Shane in the Semi-Pros
by Jimbo
Jimbotejas@yahoo.com

Shane's ankle healed perfectly.  He underwent his
surgery and hopped on crutches for a few weeks, then
wore a walking cast for about two more months before
he was back on his own two feet.  He missed the last
of his senior year football season and due to the
injury was passed over by any colleges offering him a
football scholarship.  His Dad told him about a
college that played Division 3 football but that would
mean playing without a scholarship and it was an
expensive private school.  Shane's Dad offered to
sacrifice and send him there if he really wanted to
play collegiate ball.  Shane told his Dad thanks but
no thanks.  He said he really appreciated what his Dad
wanted to do, but that he wasn't up for him going to
such an expense.  Shane decided to attend a local
state university and to get involved in intramural
sports.

Just as Shane was about to graduate in May, his Dad
received notice that he was being transferred overseas
to Bangladesh with his oil company.  He would have to
leave about mid May.  His Company would purchase the
house.  His Dad asked him if he wanted to go along and
attend an American University in India.  Shane
couldn't think of anything he would rather not do.  He
told his Dad he wanted to stay there and attend the
local university.  His Dad had figured that would be
his answer.  He asked Shane if he would consider
living with his Uncle Jim.  Shane couldn't think of
anything he would like better.  

Mid June arrived and Shane saw his Dad off at the
airport.  He drove back to Uncle Jim's place and
waited for him to get home from work.  When Jim walked
in all sweaty from his job, he called for Shane but
got no answer.  Jim thought, oh well he is probably
over at his house rounding up the rest of his things. 
Jim began to strip in the kitchen, he pulled off his
engineer boots and his sweaty socks, then he pulled
his t shirt off and dropped it in the den, as he
sauntered down the hall to his room he dropped his
dirty jeans in the floor, as he entered his bedroom in
only his sweaty jockstrap, there lay Shane across his
bed, completely naked, with his 9 inch boner standing
proud.  Jim broke out in a grin and said there is my
horny roommate.  Shane said come here you stud uncle
and let me undress you.  He admired his Uncle's
physique as he approached the bed.  Jim was 32 and was
in great shape.  He had played football in high school
and also played junior college ball.  He was a running
back and built like one, 5'11" tall, 190 lbs of sheer
muscle, brunette, brown eyed, and a chest covered in
hair.  

Jim approached the bed and Shane rolled to the edge of
it.  Shane ordered Jim to put his hands atop his head.
Jim did so and Shane admired the hairy chest and the
ripe hairy armpits.  He also admired the big biceps
bulging in Jim's arms.  Shane went for Jim's jock clad
crotch.  He began to sniff the jock and saw the bulge
in it become bigger.  Jim had a nice sized 6.5 inch
cut cock, that was extra thick.  Shane began to pull
down Jim's jock with his teeth and then buried his
nose in Jim's thick pube patch.  He licked the sweat
form Jim's pubes and then began to suck the already
hard and dirpping cock.  It didn't take Jim long to
cum and his horny nephew swallowed every bit of his
load.  Jim moaned in ecstasy as he shot the last of
his load.  He felt Shane's mouth move away from his
cock and looked down to see Shane yanking furiously on
his nine inch dick.  Jim said no you don't, don't you
waste that man seed, let me have it.  As Jim fell
across his nephews big thighs, Shane's cock erupted
and shot hot jism all over Jim's hairy chest.  Jim
caught a bit of Shane's load in his mouth but most of
it was oozing down his chest in the rug there.  Jim
told Shane to lick it up and Shane willing did so.  He
loved licking his own cum off Jim's hot sweaty hairy
chest.  Jim and Shane then went and showered together.

Shane and Jim spent the rest of the summer making love
everyday.  They became truly infatuated with one
another.  Jim loved the big stud of a nephew, all 210
lbs of 6'2" jock.  He  especially loved the big 9inch
uncut cock that his nephew was endowed with.  Jim and
Shane worked out with weights every night and both
became even more toned and bulky.  They caught a lot
of eyes at the local gym and not only from the
females.  They were such a sight in the lockerrom and
the shower at the gym they often caught roving male
eyes admiring their builds.  One night after their
work out a hunky blond who Shane knew from the soccer
team at his high school came out of the showers with
his dick hard and swinging.  The dude had thick hairy
thighs and a bubble butt.  He grinned at Shane and
said "Wassup stud."  Shane said, looks like your
hooter is to me.  The soccer dude said that is because
I saw you in the shower and really would like to have
some of you.  Shane said, come on home with me dude. 
He and Jim worked that stud over and he sucked both
their cocks that night.

About the first of August, Shane told Uncle Jim that
he was really going to miss football that fall.  He
said he had strapped on pads ever since pee wee ball
and that it was really going to be odd not playing
football come fall.  Jim said, oh you can play flag
ball at the college.  Shane said nah, he wanted to
strap on pads and knock some jocks off other dudes.  

Shane got an idea from the local newspaper when he saw
that there were semi pro teams that played near the
college.  He contacted one of the team captains about
joining their squad.  He was immediately told that he
would have to join a certain fraternity which would
mean going through rush and then if he were accepted
he could play ball.  Shane thought fuck that, I really
don't much care for the preppy frat rat types anyway. 
He told the dude thanks but no thanks.  The guy told
him that he was a loser for not wanting to be a part
of their fraternity and their team.  Shane said yeah
whatever and fuck you ass hole.  The dude took a swing
at him and Shane cold cocked him with an upper cut to
the chin.  The dude was out cold.

Shane decided to run a notice on the internet to see
if he could get some dudes interested in forming a
team.  He asked for dudes 18 to 35.  In no time he had
17 guys interested and a meeting was set for Jim's
house.  The dudes all showed up and Shane and Jim had
beer and snacks for them.  Each was asked to introduce
himself to the group and tell about his former playing
experience.  All appeared to have football player
builds.  After each had spoken to the groups, Shane
said now for the bad news, it will cost us each about
$600 for our gear and for the entry fee into the
league.  Shane saw most of them fall in their
countenance.  Most were in their early to mid twenties
and were either college students or were manual
laborers and didn't have those kind of funds.  After
the money situation was discussed and it looked like
the team wouldn't get going from there, Shane asked if
most of them could come up with $200 for the entry fee
if he could come up with the gear.  All agreed that
they could handle that.  So Shane had each one leave
his phone number and set the next meeting for three
days later.

After the meeting Jim asked Shane where the hell he
was going to get football gear for 19 of them.  Shane
replied that he had his own gear and extra gear for
Jim.  He said, now we just have to come up with 17
more sets of pads, etc.  Jim said good luck.

The next day Shane dropped by his high school and
found his old coach in the field house.  Coach was
happy to see Shane and told him how much he was going
to miss him being on the team that fall.  Shane told
his old coach what he was trying to do and asked the
Coach if he could help him obtain football gear for
his team.  The coach replied that he had piled a lot
of old pads in the locker room to be thrown out.  He
told Shane that he could have them but that they
weren't in the best of shape.  He said that there were
pants, and pads, and helmets and shoes.  He said just
get all or as much of it as you want.  Shane thanked
the coach and loaded up all the gear in his car.

Shane got to Jim's house and unloaded the gear in the
garage.  He began to sort through the items and found
some pads with his name and jersey number on it from
high school as well as articles some of his buddies
had worn.  Jim came home and found Shane sorting
through the old smelly football gear.  Jim popped a
boner thinking about all the muscular young studs that
had sweated in those pads, helmets, pants, etc in
football games.  Jim stripped in the garage and began
putting on a complete uniform.  Shane unlaced the
pants Jim had on and gave him a blow job.  Jim shot
cum all over Shane's face and watched as some of it
seeped into the well worn jock he had put on.

Shane and Jim continued to go through the gear and
were able to assemble 10 complete sets of gear.  Jim
said to Shane what are we gonna do about the other 7. 
Shane replied that the gear would have to be swapped
among the players on the sidelines during the games. 
Jim thought that was workable and also hot. 

At the next meeting Shane told the group that he had
12 sets of uniforms and suggested they swap gear on
the sidelines during the games.  One dude, said man we
will be naked for everyone to see.  Shane replied, no
man you will have your jock on.  All agreed to the
setup.

Then Shane brought out the gear and they began to fit
each player.  Jim asked all the dudes to strip and put
on a jock strap.  They all began to strip in Jim's den
and Jim enjoyed the sight of all the muscular studs
naked in his house.  He thought man this is a dream
come true.  Each was issued one of the jocks that
Shane had snatched from the high school football
locker room .  Next each one was asked to individually
step into the garage where they were measured by Jim
at the waist and  around the chest. Shane recorded the
sizes to know who would have to wear the same gear. 
They were also fitted with helmets and shoes.  Jim and
Shane were wearing only their jocks in order to make
the rest of the dudes feel comfortable.  

After each player was measured and told to buy navy
blue practice jerseys of their own, they were asked to
meet for practice the next afternoon at 6 pm.  All
agreed to be there.  One of the players was of Cuban
decent, he had been an excellent player in his high
school.  Jim had especially enjoyed seeing Jay in his
jock strap.  Jay was muscular but slender built.  He
had been a free safety in high school.  Jay had the
olive skin tone and hairy body that most hispanics
have.  He had an infectious smile with pearly white
teeth.  Jay lingered in his jock strap after the other
players had all gone.  Jim could see that Jay had a
hard on in his jock and he could see pre cum oozing
through the mesh.  Shane and Jim had slipped on
football shorts prior to the dudes leaving but Jay had
remained in his jock.  

Jay told Jim and Shane that he thought they were two
of the hottest dudes he had ever seen and also told
them that he wanted them to know that he was gay.  He
said I don't want this to be a surprise to you two
later on and then you decide you don't want me on the
team.  So if you cant handle my being gay, then tell
me now and I wont be back.  At that Jim grabbed Jays
arms from behind him and held him against his now jock
clad body.  Jim asked Shane, what should we do with
this faggot.  Jay looked startled and bean to try to
escape Jim's grasp.  Jim held him like a vise.  Shane
said, well for starters we could pull his jock down
and see what its hiding.  Shane pulled the straining
jock down Jays muscular hairy legs and watched as
Jay's cock stood erect and throbbing.  It was about 7
inches long and was surrounded by jet black pubic
hairs.  Shane knelt at Jay's crotch and began to suck
on his hard cock.  Jay nearly went limp at the knees
but Jim continued to hold him.  Shane expertly sucked
Jays cock and it wasnt long until Jay said I am
cumming man.  Jim said dont swallow it, I want it. 
Shane took Jays jism in his mouth and then spit it in
Jim's palm.  Jim began to work his finger in Jay's cum
and then began to lube Jay's ass with his own cum. 
Jim took a good bit of the cum and lubed his dick with
it.  He then plunged his fat cock into Jay's hairy
hole and fucked Jay standing there with his jock
around his hairy thighs.  It wasn't long until Jim's
nuts pulled up around the base of his dick and Jay
begged him to pull out before he came.  Jim did and
Jay turned around and took Jim's entire load down his
throat.  Jay then licked all the jism and ass juices
off Jim's cock.  Jim and Shane asked Jay to stay and
share their kingsized bed with them that night.  Jay
said show me the bedroom.

Practice started the next day.  Shane and Jim dressed
in their gear when Jim got home from work and drove to
the practice field.  Jim was asked to be the player
coach and he willingly agreed.  Most of the guys had
to play both offense and defense due the the smallness
of number on the team.  They tried out for different
positions and finally a roster was drawn up.  There
wasn't much problem in having to change uniforms at
practice since there were no spectators.  Practice
went along for two weeks and the team was really
beginning to take shape.  Most of the players really
enjoyed stripping and handing the sweaty pads,
helmets, pants, etc. back and forth to one another. 
Even the straight guys found it erotic.

The first game was held on a Saturday afternoon.  The
first team they played was the season champs from the
year before.  Jim was in at running back and kicker. 
Shane was playing quarter back and middle linebacker. 
There was another dude playing quarterback.  Shane and
he alternated at the position.  His name was Chad. 
Chad was 21 and had played for a 5A high school as had
Shane.  He was 6'1", 200 lbs, brown hair, with a
defined build.  He had a handsome face and was a good
athlete.  Chad played outside linebacker on defense. 
He and Shane swapped uniforms so when one played
defense the other played on offense.  

Their team did pretty well the first half, the
defending champs were up by only 3 points at the half.
The second half began and Shane started at
quarterback.  They took the ball at their 32 and drove
down field.  Jim was mixing the plays, running quite
well himself and Alan and Blake the tight ends, were
doing quite well catching the ball.  They truly had
tight ends, and Shane and Jim admired those pretty
butts as they changed gear on the sidelines.  Alan's
left ass cheek was tattooed with Yosemite Sam, Alan's
high school mascot.  Shane led the offense down field
and they scored giving them a 4 point lead.  It was
then Chads turn at defense, Shane ran to the sidelines
and began to strip off his gear.  Chad in his jock,
began to pull Shanes shoulder pads and jersey over his
head while Jim was pulling down Shanes pants and
girdle pads.  As Chad began to put on Shanes sweaty
pads he began to feel a stirring in his loins and
wondered what was wrong with him.  He found himself
getting horny wearing the blond studs sweaty football
gear.

Shanes team lost the game to the defending champs by
two touchdowns.  They just didn't have the depth and
experience but they had played gallantly and Jim was
proud of his bunch of rag tag jocks.  They all came by
Jims house in their sweaty pads, some in just their
jocks and shorts.  Jim told them to all strip to their
jocks and hose down in the back yard.  Jim noticed
that Chad shied away from the rest who were cooling
off and washing away the game sweat and grit.  Jim
said man you better get on out there.  Chad said man I
cant, I have a boner and dont want the guys to see me.
Jim said man dont be ashamed of that.  Chad said Im
not it is just embarrassing, the dudes will think Im
gay or something.  Jim said, whats wrong with that. 
Chad looked puzzled and Jim said man I am gay, Shane
is gay and Jay is gay.  You got a problem with that. 
Chad swallowed hard and said no, but I just got this
hard on for Shane today and dont know what to think
about it.  He is one hot dude and wearing his sweaty
gear made me hard for him.  Jim said you want him? 
Chad said man I dont know.  Jim said wait here.  He
came back with Shane who was dripping wet from his
bath and only wearing his game jock.  Shane said, yo
dude, whats up.  Chad said my cock man, its up for
you.  Shane said, whoa dude, follow me.  Shane led
Chad to the bedroom where he pulled down Chads shorts
and then his jock.  He began to nuzzle his nose and
mouth into Chad's sweaty balls, dick, and pubes. 
Chad's precum was being smeared all over Shanes face. 
Chad said man I dont know why but I want to lick your
hairy arm pits.  Shane stood up and raised both his
massive arms for Chads access to his pits.  Chad
buried his face in each pit and then worked on Shanes
nice nipples licking the hair around them and biting
the tips of them  He had Shanes nips pointed in no
time.  Chad then asked Shane if he would let him fuck
him.  Shane sure dude, for you anything.  Shane lay on
the bed and brought his hairy legs up and over Chads
shoulders.  Chad spit on his cock and spit on Shanes
ass hole and inserted his hard dick into Shanes ass. 
Shane gasped at the pain, waiting for his spinxchter
to loosen.  Chad looked at the pain on Shanes face and
that made him even hotter and harder.  He looked into
the deep blue of Shanes eyes and pumped away in Shanes
tight ass.  He finally came with the most intense
orgasm of his life.  He then collapsed on Shanes hard
belly and massive chest.  He whispered in Shanes ear,
man I have never done that with any dude, only been
chicks for me, but I want you for the rest of my life.
 Shane said whoa dude, I think you are hot man, and I
definitely want to do this lots more, but Uncle Jim
and I are a number.  Chad asked if he thought Jim
would make love with him.  Shane said only if you ask
him.  Chad was calling, oh Jimbo as Shane walked back
to the party going on in the yard. 

Shanes team lost the next two games then won three and
lost lost another.  The team had begun to get better
with each game.  There was only one team left
undefeated in the league and that was the last team of
the season for Shanes team to play.  They were the
fraternity team that Shane had asked to play for. 
Their quarterback was named Cooper and he was the dude
Shane had knocked out.  Shane and Chad went to meet
with Cooper and his co qb to set up the time for the
game.  As Shane walked into the room Cooper said hey
loser I told you you would be a loser if you didnt
play for us.  You and your fucking pigs dont even have
enough gear to wear, you look like a bunch of homeless
people on the field in that shit you wear.  I have
seen some of your players asses through the holes in
their football pants.  Shane said thats alright
asshole we will beat your team.  Cooper said yeah what
do you want to bet on that.  Shane said well since you
think so little of our gear why dont you put up your
gear as a wager.  Cooper laughed and said yeah, what
the hell do we want with that shit of yours, not much
of a wager dude.  Shane said well I will tell you
what, if we lose we will strip off our gear on the
field and you can do as you will with us for another
30 minutes after the game.  Cooper said now you are
talking.  I will  accept that bet and we will burn
your shit under the goal post.  But I will fuck your
big ass on the fifty yard line.  Shane said you got a
deal asswipe.

As they left Chad asked Shane, what the hell were you
thinking man, they are undefeated.  You want us to
lose our gear and be humiliated by those pretty frat
boys.  Shane said Chad, we have game films of them,
Jim has one of their play books, we can beat those
pansy ass frat turds.  Chad said man I hope you are
right, I dont mind hopping in the sack with you and
Jimbo but I dont want to be naked and at their mercy
on the field.  

Saturday came and Shane and his team took the field. 
Coopers team received the kickoff.  Shanes boys
battled them but they scored.  Then Shanes team under
Chads direction marched back down field and scored. 
Jim took the ball in from the four yard line.  At the
half time the score was 21 to 21, and Cooper was
having a shit fit on his sideline.  Shane and Chad and
Jim were telling their troops to play steady and play
hard, that they would win.  Cooper and his team were
leading by three points with 3 minutes left in the
game.  Cooper was under center and looked at Shane who
was at middle linebacker.  Cooper said the 50 yd line
is where I will open your ass in 3 minutes Shane. 
Shane said, yeah well I am going to open your head
when you snap that ball.  They were on Shanes 45 yard
line, Cooper had the ball snapped to him and dropped
back to pass, Shane tore through the line between the
center and the left guard, he warded off a back who
was acting as a blocker for Cooper, the next instant
he had Cooper in his grasp, he saw the fear and the
frustration in Coopers eyes as he slammed the
quarterback to the ground.  The ball popped out of
Coopers hands and Chad who was wearing Jims gear
scooped it up and ran toward the goal line with the
ball.  Chad scored and Shanes team went up by four
after Jims successful PAT.  The game ended and Cooper
and his team looked like deer in the head lights. 
They had invited 3 sororities out to the game to see
Shanes team stripped and humiliated.

Cooper said to Shane, ok we will hand you our gear and
we will go.  Shane no way dude, that wasnt all of the
deal, we have 30 minuets to have our way with you. 
And I will start with you, strip right here on the 50
yard line and bend over.  Cooper began to strip and
whine.  He pulled off his sweaty shoulder pads and
handed them over to Shane.  Shane called Chad over and
said try these on dude.  Chad said man these are
Eastons.  Cooper said, yeah some of the best money can
buy.  Chad pulled Coopers sweaty pads on and fit just
right.  Now the shoes dude.  Cooper pulled off his
cleat and sweaty socks.  Chad tried them on and found
a perfect fit also.  Now the pants dude and the girdle
pads.  Cooper pulled down his pants and the sorority
sisters were now hooting and whistling.  Man do I have
to pull off the girdle pads Cooper asked.  Shane said
pull off everything.  Cooper pulled down his hip and
fanny pads with his girdle leaving him in his sweaty
jock.  Cooper said man do I have to pull off my jock? 
Shane said not at this minute I will fuck you with
your jock on, bend over.  Cooper bent over on the 50
and Shane opened his football pants and pulled down
his jock, his nine inch cock was throbbing.  Cooper
saw it between his legs, and tried to run.  Chad had
now put on all of Coopers gear and tackled him.  He
dragged him back over and made him bend over for
Shane.  Shane told Cooper, since you tried to run off,
I wont lube your ass or my dick, you will have to take
it roughly.  With that Shane rammed his big cock up
Coopers sweaty virgin ass and you could hear Cooper
scream for miles.  As Shane began to pump in and out
of Coopers ass he looked around and saw naked players
all over the field standing and looking at disbelief
at their gear they were losing and at their
predicament.  Shane told Chad go find you one of these
turkeys to screw.  He saw the tight end that was hot
and went after him.  After Shane had fucked Cooper and
shot a huge load of cum in his ass, Cooper stood up
and kissed Shane hard on the mouth, then asked Shane
if he could suck his dick.  Shane said have at it dude
and clean off my balls too.  Cooper began with Shanes
gritty, sweaty ball sack, licking off his ass juices,
and the dirt and sweat from the dirty blond hairs that
covered Shanes scrotum.  He then swallowed the big
nine inch dick to the hilt and smelled the
testosterone in Shanes thick bush at the base of his
cock. 

Shane looked down the field and saw that Jay had tied
one of the receiver to the goal post with his hands
over his head.  Jay had begun to slowly strip the
stud.  He took off his helmet and tried it on and
decided it was a fit.  Then he removed his shoulder
pads to keep them.  Then Jay began to bite and suck on
the dudes tits.  He had a tit ring in one tit and Jay
began to pull at it with his teeth.  He had the dude
screaming and yelling.  Next Jay raised his arm and
made the dude lick both of his hairy pits.  After
licking the first pit the dude refused to lick the
other one until Jay ran his hand down the dudes pants
and began to squeeze his balls.  Next Jay pulled down
the pants and jock to the dudes knees and began to eat
his ass out.  After Jay got his ass all wet he
inserted his cock and began to fuck him.  Jay shot a
load of jizz in the dudes ass and had him licking his
cock clean.  Jay then went to the dudes cock and found
that he had a Prince Albert.  Jay grinned and began to
pull at the PA with his teeth.  The stud out screamed
Cooper as Jay was nearly tearing the PA from the end
of his throbbing dick.

Jim had tied up two of the dudes on the other goal
post.  He had stripped them completely naked and had
gotten them both hard by sucking their cocks.  One of
them was a dead ringer for Matt Damon, the other one
for Keanu Reaves.  Jim was standing between them
stroking their hard cocks.  The sorority girls were
snapping pix of the action.  Jim kept stroking their
cocks until they both shot loads of cum on the
gridiron.  Jim then did his usual and lubed their
asses with their own cum and fucked the day lights out
of both of them.  When he finally finished fucking
them, the both hung limp by their wrists, with cum
oozing from the tips of their dicks, and from their
well fucked asses.

Chad had found the back up qb and had impaled his
mouth on Chads cock.  He face fucked the dude until
his nuts and pubes were dripping wet from the dudes
spit.  He then rolled the dude over on his belly and
spread his ample ass cheeks.  He looked at the blond
ringed hole and began to tongue fuck him.  After
tasting the sweet cherry, he then inserted his cock
into the dudes ass and fell on him.  Chad pumped in
and out of the dude all the while smelling the sweaty
pad odor on his back on shoulders.  Chad began to bite
the dudes shoulders unmercifully until he came in his
ass.  He noticed the dude was sobbing and he asked him
why.  The dude said I have never been so humiliated in
all my life and beside that I think I love you and
dont know why.  Chad held the dude in his strong arms
and began to lick the salty tears from his face.  Chad
thought to himself, I believe I have found my love
since I cant have Shane.

Time was nearing an end for the humiliation.  Shane
made the opposing team line up on the fifty yard line
shoulder to shoulder in all their beautiful manly
nakedness and he, Jim, Jay, and Chad took pix of the
naked studs for souvenirs and for jack off material. 
The had them stand there with their hands at their
sides to show off their muscular pecs, then with their
hands over their heads to show off their hairy arm
pits.  They then took rear shots of all the pretty
football bubble butts.  When the buzzer on the clock
sounded Shane told them get your lousy asses off the
field and leave all the gear, even the jock straps. 
The dudes went gingerly off the the field to their
cars, their feet hurting from the rocks on the drive
and most of their asses hurting from the fuckings they
all received.

Shane and his buddies picked up the new gear, shoulder
pads, helmets, shoes, pads, began stashing it in the
back of Jims truck.  Shane told the dudes to come by
the next day and pick out what they wanted.  Jim,
Shane, Jay, Chad, and Chads new lover from the other
team headed for Jims house.  As they were driving out
of the park, Cooper appeared from behind a tree and
flagged Shane down.  Man can I go home with you, he
asked, I want some more of that big cock.  Shane said
hop in dude, there is plenty of it to go round. 
Cooper got in the front seat, pulled Shanes big dick
from the confines of his still sweaty jock, and fell
over on Shanes big hairy thigh feasting again on the
nine inch cock, sucking Shanes nuts dry once again.