Word: locker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Allman has not always been the most vocal leader in the locker room, he has never shied from admonishing his mates for lack of effort. Not a flashy offensive talent, Allman leads by example as a gritty, third-line checking center who plays excellent defense and picks up the occasional goal by being the hardest worker...
Just after 6, more than an hour before kickoff, the team is in the locker room, and the mood stinks. The players seem distracted, off balance. Behind closed doors, Bobby Granderson and wide receiver Chuck Walker are brutal to their teammates. "You better get your minds straight," Chuck says, his voice growing louder. "We won last week. We're doing good. But you're walking around like you're f______ lost." By the time Coach Ice comes in, the players are quiet. He didn't like all the stupid mistakes in last week's game. "It's nice...
...half time Webster is way ahead, 48-14. As the players jog off the field, a girl screams, "Bobby! Bobby!" But Bobby doesn't hear her. He still hasn't got his touchdown. In the locker room, Coach Ice throws cold water on them. "I don't want to be happy beating a bad football team by four touchdowns. If we play a good team, we can't do crap like this. I want to play good football all the time...
...Saturday mornings, only one Harvard student has thousands of screaming fans expecting him to lead their football team to victory. Wilford sits in the locker room before each game and relaxes -trying to sleep and listening to calm music on his Walkman...
...military." That pain motivates our anger in an unjust world. I hate that our posters embarrass some closeted people but a) don't assume other closet queens don't love them (I still have my poster of RuPaul giving the camera the finger from my middle school locker), b) don't assume closeted people don't engage in naughty sex acts themselves, and c) being closeted or speaking in the name of the closeted doesn't necessarily authorize the abjection of people who have different sex lives than yours. Putting forth a "respectable face," while more palatable to the noblesse...