Roughing the Kicker
Updated: Aug 26
Jack was the kicker for our college football team. I was an offensive lineman, and Jack and I became good friends because we had also been assigned as roommates. Coach felt that the older players should take the younger guys under our wing, and so he had worked it out with the residence life office that football players would room together, and each freshman was paired with an upperclassman. Luckily, as scholarship athletes, we were given apartment-style dorm rooms, and because we were at the end of the hall beside the stairwell, we got a room that only had two bedrooms rather than the typical 4-bedroom suite the other guys had. I was a junior when Jack was assigned to be my roommate. I still remember the first time we met.
