Friday, September 20, 2019

War Memorial Stadium

I walked out and back, with a bit longer return trip, from War Memorial Stadium to the defunct golf course, where I hit full swings with a gap wedge for about half an hour. Those were my first swings of any sort since Ed and I last played seventeen days ago.
Now I'm back at the stadium to watch Little Rock Parkview host Rogers.
By the way, Parkview defeated Rogers by a score of 84-40, which ties this game with the second-highest scoring I have eyewitnessed. Last season I watched Little Rock Christian defeat Maumelle, 87-68. Back in, I believe, 2015, I saw Central Arkansas Christian beat someone, 66-58.
Later that same season, on the same field in torrential rainfall in the playoffs, CAC tied Pea Ridge in regulation, 0-0. The Christians lost in overtime, 3-0. That was the night I perhaps became the first person to have ever watched two 0-0 regulation ties in their lifetime, to beat a horse now four years dead. Way back in 1977, as a freshman at Wyoming, I watched Wyoming tie Air Force, 0-0. There have since been two college games tied at 0-0. I have since asked dozens of coaches who have told me they have never seen a 0-0 high school game, probably because there hasn't been one in years and years. I know I have never heard tell of one.
The last NFL game to end 0-0 was played between the New York Giants and Detroit Lions in 1943. It is not difficult for me to imagine no one else alive has seen more than one or anyone else alive would give a fuck one way or the other. It's just kind of cool for me to think—borderline believe—I'm the only one.

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