Wakeland Dr Mort 3 2016
Began playing football at Jefferson Junior High, by the football field. Mom thought I should take dancing lessons and so enrolled me in “Arthur Murry� It was hell having to leave football practice early on some afternoons with all the boys shouting have fun with the girls. Actually I discovered those girls were pretty soft and smelled darn better than boys in a locker room – laugh!!! As I recall in 9th grade we won the city championship from Robertsville who I think had dominated the football field for a number of years. Eat your hearts out Robetsvillians!



It was then I develop my friendship with Benny Snyder, who remained a close friend and fellow football player through high school.



From Jefferson Junior High School (JJHS) it was on to the domicile of hugeness, Oak Ridge High School (ORHS). I was scared to absolute death.



ORHS (1963 – 1966)



What can I say! We were told way back then, at least I was, these would be our most fun years and I don’t think any of us gave it a second thought. But ya know something, in hind sight, those words have come to ring so true. At least for me, I relish all the friends I made, relationships I had, and all the fun times for those 3 super stupendous years.



Nothing to worry about except money for gas and money for a date, or beer – laugh, and if time was left over, homework.



Being a part of the ORHS football legacy helped shape me into the self-confident person I am today. I can still hear the sound of all our cleats as we gingerly walked down those long concrete steps at JJHS to the football field below. Even to this day I can remember the aroma of popcorn diffusing through the cool fall air. Normally, I was one of the last one out of the locker room, for I wanted to insure my bladder was empty. Nothing worse than having to play a contact sport on a full bladder, get hit just right, and something was gonna come out – laugh!!



My last year at ORHS I dated a cute lil petite blond, I think a freshman? Wonder what ever happened to Pat? I know Robb Unger gave her the most unbelievable cute nickname of “guppy.� That woman’s lips would rival Angelina Jolie, Brigitte Bardot, Eva Mendes, and Sophia Loren all rolled into one!!! Delicious, simply delicious.



I fondly recall the night after graduation and the party some of us had at Unger’s lake cabin on Watts Bar Lake. We were on top of the world. I so wish the religious nim-wits would have allowed us to graduate on 6/6/66. Even I could remember that!




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