Well hello my friends…
I thought I would post something new… err, wait…, no… its old… its nostalgic…
Its here!... Super Bowl Sunday….
Well, golly! Whadda ‘ya know… the Saints are play’in the Colts… stay tuned… don’t miss a moment of the hoopla… the excitement… the television commercials… and it all begins at 6:15 pm!
Well, my friends…. long before there was a televised super bowl and long before there was an endless string of television commercials… there was Saturday and Sunday Football… our own versions of Super Bowl Saturday… and Super Bowl Sunday… long before the Bud Commercials and the “magical icebox”… there were iced-down chests of product from the F. & M. SCHAEFER BREWING COMPANY… our own version of the king of beers… in cans, bottles, quarts, nips, you name it… we had it… and we drank it…
Inwood had its Redskins… its Colts… Washington Heights had its Rebels… JUST… to mention a few (I invite you to name others)…
Organized sandlot football… great games, great guys, and even greater girls there to cheer us along… long before a “Cowgirl Cheerleaders”…
There we were traveling to the Dyckman Street Ball fields… Inwood Hill Park… and GW High Stadium… there was a game to be played… and a neighborhood honor to be defended… those games were beyond super… they were splendid examples of teamwork, of friendship and yes… do I dare say it… err… write it… a “mutual love”… between guys…
Yes, guys… (teammates)… who would throw a block that would rattle the another neighborhood’s back teeth… guys who would run through a goal post rather than break a play-pattern… folks… err, my friends… THIS WAS FOOTBALL!
Tonight… America will sit down to America’s Game… and New Orleans Saints stand in the way of the Indianapolis Colts… I hope that the best team wins… But what is really good… what is really huge… can be found in a wink, and a blink and a nod… on a cold and windy field in “OUR INWOOD and WASHINGTON HEIGHTS” it can be conjured up right now…
Because when our trip back to those games that were super long before the NFL’s is over… I guarantee that you’ll be happy… because you were young once again… for just a moment… and you broke that tackle… threw that block… ran that post pattern… and scored that touchdown… and with that memory will come…
Peace…
Inwood Guy
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