It must have been fun and physical playing the games with your marine buddies. Something that’s not easily forgotten.

Now Russ, I never said I was a Jet fan. My pro team has always been the Buffalo Bills. I mentioned the Baltimore/New York Game because it sparked a lot of kids to start playing the game on weekend afternoons.

Again thanks for the update on Kurt Holuba. I hope we get him to commit to Syracuse. Recruiting is going going to be real interesting this year. I wish the football season would start next week.

In 1958 my friends and I set down and watched the first ever football game broadcast live(in black & white) on television. The New York Giants led by Y.A. Tittle against the Johnnie Unitas led Balitmore Colts. After that game was played the cameras showed Y.A. Tittle kneeling in the endzone with his helmet off with blood running down his face. From that game on Russell,Saturday or Sunday afternoons were meant to play football games on. Our neighbors raking and burning the leaves,smelling what the women of the neighborhood was cooking for us to eat at dinner time. Special times Russell that would give us all who experienced them everlasting memories.

As we got older,you know the teen years,our games got a little more serious,we started in playing anyone who dared challenge us in football to a beer game with the loser paying for it. Those were the good old days Russell,they hold a special place in my heart. Where I grew up the last generation has passed. A few of my friends are gone also. When I drive through the old neighborhood,I think of the things that happened almost to the day when the event took place. Sometimes I sit and laugh and remind myself that the best time in America was back in the decade of the 50′s. All we have left are the memories.