I had a similar experience with his book, which came out the year before the movie. I would have been about 11. I don’t even know where I got it from, but I devoured that book in about three days, and to this day I still remember parts of that book practically by heart. I was transfixed.

I never saw Dennis Byrd play, he was injured when I was 1. In 1994 they made a movie about him that I’m guessing was a very limited release in theatres. For whatever reason my parents decided to take me to see the movie, I don’t know what 3 year old would be interested in that movie, but for some reason it stuck, and…

BOOOOOO HE SUCKS. HE SUCKS! Throw him up against a REAL team let’s see how he does! BOOOOOOOOOO

This reminds me of a Law & Order episode. They find the body of a young boy who has been beaten to death, and he has a battery in his mouth. At first they think it’s a weird sex killing, but eventually realize it’s a friend of his, a ten-year-old girl with psychopathic tendencies and once she came out of her…

“A medal isn’t certain or anything, but there’s nothing to be afraid of.”