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i never have told u guys about how my high school treated my make a wish  trip


hello and a side note thanks for all the support that i have gotten form broncos country u guys know about my make a wish to denver but i forgot to tell u how my high school told me about the trip

it was on a friday i think like sept 2nd or something as a kid i cotteted sports cards baseball football basketball i have over 20'000 cards they are in a shead

anyway in Feb or March 2001 some people from make-a-wish came over to my house and did a interview with me my and my folks at the time thought i was too old for make-a wish because i was 17 anyway they asked me what i wanted and i say to go to a broncos game but my backup wish was to meet michael jordan

and they even asked what home game i wanted to see i said ravens or giants but they were there just to get to know me

and i thought well i am too old etc well early sept i was sorting my cards in the floor like grouping by team i think and my mom get a call from my therapist and she was acting weird and i was like ok

well friday morning i went to school and for 6 years in first period i had advente pe which is pe for disabled students well i was mentoring some 7th graders they had autism and we was laughing goofing off shooting hoops in a room the size of a small closet see the next year nettleton was getting a brand new high school which they desperately needed

because the high school was getting too small anyway they wear trarles everywhere

and then the principal and my mom come in to see me and say can we see u from a minute i say sure anyway they take me to this back room where ta-da my new chair is and it was state of art it costs about 18 '000 dollars

i was so happy i mean i loved my old chair but i was outgrowing i got it like 6 years earlier and it was starting not to fit

well a lady came all way down from little rock which is a 2-and a haif hour drive from jonesboro and she had to fix up the bolts get my height weight etc well it took about 4 hours and nerdy me was asking about schoolwork and they said do not worry about it

it was a home game for my high school which meant pep rally day which also no homework for a hour

anyway i love to be early to everything and i was late to this pep rally which for some reason did not annoy me like it normal wouild

it was about 3 miles to the gym

see i was not your typical high school guy i would say hi to anyone and even help jr high kids if need be because when i was a so sr's helped me so i felt it was my duty to give back and help underclassman

anyway i got in and i got a standing ovation from the whole school and i went to my normal spot and they said no u are with the football team today and they gave me a raiders jersey which see back then nettleton only had like 35 players and we were comping with teams like wynne who had 65 players and our guys were 5-6 140 while wynne was like 5-10 200

anyway most of the team i knew very very well like out of the 35 players i knew 31 and we were playing westside which btw remember the 1998 jonesboro school shooting westside was the school affected the team named me team captain for the day

and we have DT that where 200 pounds at best oh we played both ways as well

anyway all our games in arkansas kickoff at 7 30 anyway at 6 45 they told me to go to the middle of our field the 50- yard line

and then about 1'000 make a wish votetessers storm the field i was stunned the first was the would dance team gave me a gift and a peak on the cheek and the punter for the 1987 washington redskins he lives in jonesboro btw came out and showing me his huge super bowl ring and put it on my pinky

then my mom dad and all my teachers starting taking pics which was mind blowing and awesome

but the best gift i got was the signed football from every member of the nettleton raider football team 2001

i got to shake hands with all the westside capters and all 4 coaches on the nettleton staff basically told me i was the man and gave me a hug

and finally all the cheerleaders had a banner confirm that i got my wish

boy i really felt bad for westside that night because they had no idea what they were in for none

nettletion only won 2 games that season but they beat westside 35-0 and they did it for me basiclly

i said that because by then my coach was there like 17 years but they started to tune him out i later learned because of his grugalne praiceings

while i had a close retehship with coach dover he was my middle school principal and treating me like a son because some days he would get lunch for me and i would eat in his office so we could talk football

this man had about 7 or 8 plays in his playbook and by watching nettletion on local access i knew everything about his offence by the time i was 12

i tell u what had i been able to walk and had i been able to play for nettleton

we would had won state because i am a leader and not very many QB in arkansas are d-1 i would had play any position on offence and safety on the back end

i say this because back then we ran the flexbone

just think of steve young in a flexbone i am left handed

thank u for having my back

now let go win a super bowl in arizona

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