One More Run At It

Gene watched as the fat kid hit the tackling dummy again. Actually, it looked more like the dummy hit the kid. "I like this boy's attitude," Gene said to the head coach. "He picks himself up and composes himself for one more run at it." The coach remarked that he had never seen anything "so completely, fundamentally unsound" in his life.

"What's your name?" Gene called out to the kid, who was rounding the track for his last after-practice lap. "Eddie Hodgkins," the kid gasped as he collapsed in a heap on the infield.

"Can I interest you in something that more appropriately marries your determination and your capabilities?"

"I'm a football player, sir," puffed Eddie. "Hodgkins men have been knocking the stuffing out of quarterbacks since fish learned to swim."

"Son, you wouldn't have any less chance of catching a quarterback if you had a wooden leg. Whadaya say you come out for Quiz Bowl?"

"With all due respect, my daddy'd sooner be flushing one of his big, steamy turds down your Quiz Bowl, sir."

"C'mon, your daddy'd be proud."

"My daddy was driving tanks in Desert Storm when my momma was carryin' me. He was All County here in '85 -- Fast Eddie Hodgkins? I'm a football player, sir."

"Eddie, I need you son. There's a good chance that I won't be around next year and I'd really like to knock the stuffing out of those sonsabitches from East End while I still got a chance."

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