The Deuce Is Looser Than I Remember…
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Tonight was a great night. Let me tell you all about it…
Former Alabama football star George Teague has a charity organization called Teague’s League. (You may remember Teague as the guy who ran down the Miami receiver and stripped the ball behind his back in the 1992 National Championship game, or as the dude who flattened Terrell Owens for dancing on the Dallas Cowboys’ star when he was a safety in the NFL.) Here’s what the organization does: they round up a bunch of old Alabama football players and put a basketball team together at a local school, where they face off against local “celebrities” (usually teachers and preachers and a couple of high school athletes) in a full 40 minute showdown. I was asked to play.
When I got there, David “The Deuce” Palmer (from the 1992 Nat’l Champs) grabbed me and brought me down to the locker room and gave me a jersey and asked me to play on their team, because a couple of their players had car trouble and weren’t gonna be able to make it. I was fired up, needless to say. Well, during warm-ups I was hitting EVERYTHING. It was great. When time came to tip-off, they put me in the starting line-up; Chris Anderson, Reggie Grimes, David Palmer, Kelvin Sigler, and Brandon McCaghren. And to make it even better, I led them in scoring. I played great. And my wife filmed it all. Got some pictures, too. They’re in my picture section. Check ‘em out. And after the game, a lot of the people in the stands even asked me to autograph their Alabama memorabilia. Maybe they thought I was the kicker…
All the guys were really cool, and they were fun. David Palmer was the only real basketball player of the bunch, but the other guys were pretty good, though. Long story short, we got beat 102-94. I swear the teachers hit 80% their shots. it was unbelievable. But I had an awesome time, and I wish my boys like Alan Compton and Brandon Denton that are huge Bama fans could have been there. Ya’ll would have loved it.
