Football Memories (Influential Groups)

Well, I was just at one of the most unique experiences I have ever encountered.  I just got home from waiting an hour and forty-five minutes for my check at a restaurant.  Wow that was painful.  Anyway, like I said in my last blog I have had football in my life for as long as I can remember.  With football in my life for this long a lot of memories are associated with it.  Memories that are usually funny and remind me of good times.  I can't really think of any bad memories that I have had with football other than breaking my leg.  My favorite memories usually involve me and Danny Robinson (and sometimes Michael Curtis) doing stupid stuff.

At football practice when we were in 8th grade Danny and I were chosen to go on the punt return team and basically get demolished by the other kids.  Kids who were bigger, faster, and stronger than us.  We had no chance.  For some reason Jake was annoying me and Danny.  Danny and I decided to take out his legs on one of the punts as some sort of sick revenge.  We executed it perfectly; I took out his left ankle and Danny took out his right ankle and Jake ate dirt.  That was the beginning of the Brick Wall Squad.  We did not realize it but one of the most powerful and influential squads to ever hit Avon Lake had just been formed and we were not aware of it.  The official forming of the Brick Wall Squad is another great memory.  It was the first day of full contact our Junior year and Danny was playing corner back and I was playing safety.  Brett kept running the ball to Danny's side and Danny made textbook tackles by taking out Brett's ankles.  This time it was the bigger, faster, and stronger kids who had no chance.  We had found their one weakness...their ankles.  That same year in a scrimmage against Twinsburg, Danny and I were playing defense and Twinsburg was on offense.

Twinsburg had one (attempted) run to me and Danny's side.  Needless to say that was the last play that went to our side.  Twinsburg's running back went off in a stretcher if I remember correctly.  His injury being Absenceofanklesitis.  He had complained about running into a brick wall in the secondary; and that is how the name was created.  Yeah, that sounds about right.  Anyway with the formation of the Brick Wall Squad we were untouchable.  Michael Curtis noticed how influential we were and wanted to join the group.  We told him there was no way because there was a limit on the amount of members in this squad, two.  We then decided to make the second most influential group in all of ALHS.  This is the Brain Trust.  The amount of members in this group is greater than the Brick Wall Squad's, there are three.   The Brain Trust was a group of extraordinary gentlemen who stood next to each other during the Varsity football games and took notice of how the moon would line up directly between the field's lights.  You might make fun of us now but at the next Shoremen game, about halfway through the fourth quarter look up and you'll see what I mean.  Well I got talking about nothing again.  Dang.  Even though this was just a story of the creation of some amazing groups it was good to take a trip down memory lane.  Ta ta for now.