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...used to have fights over whom to like better. I liked Paul--I thought he was the most wonderful person in the world. He was soooooo cute." Phyllis shows off her ring. It has a blinking face of Paul that says, "I'm Paul." "I really hated Jane Asher, Paul's old girlfriend. I still...
Midget football had one big advantage over schoolboy sports--no limitations on practice. Asher's boys had playbooks that would have broken Karl Sweetan's foot if he had dropped one. They began practice in midsummer and by the time the season was over in December had combed the country from Miami to Levittown to Chicago looking for a team that could play with them...
Practice was three hours a day. As an undersized and underaged nine year old, I pleaded with Asher to let me be a part of this elite corps. He looked me in the eye, then drew his bulldog-like face right up to an inch of my nose and said: "Do you want to be part of a winner? Do you want to contribute to making the Bulldogs national champions? Do you want to be on that field in front of over 50,000 people when we go up to Chicago and play during the halftime of the Bears game...
...then I was shaking in my short sleeve shirt as Asher's mouth started going so fast it left a wake of spray all over me. I felt like I was being blessed. "Well, you're too young to play this year. But you can still be a part of the Bulldogs. I need an equipment manager...
Prouder of myself than ever before, I saluted Asher and ran all the way home to tell my mother the good news. I did not wipe the spray off my face until dinner...