Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!homxa!mengm
From: mengm@homxa.UUCP (P.MENG)
Newsgroups: net.sport
Subject: Sports Stars in your High School
Message-ID: <893@homxa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 12:57:50 EST
Article-I.D.: homxa.893
Posted: Tue Apr 16 12:57:50 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 17-Apr-85 01:37:41 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
Lines: 22

-=-=-=-=>
	I went to Brick Township H.S. in New Jersey where everyone
    lives and breathes football. For being such a "powerhouse",
    however, only one that I know of made it to the NFL. Art Thoms
    made it and played with Oakland for @9-10 years as a defensive
    tackle. I was a freshman when he was a senior. Our parents
    knew eachother, he went out with my sister at one time, a 
    friend of mine married his sister, etc, etc.
	Up till a couple of years ago Art played on our softball
    team whenever he was in town to visit his folks (he resides
    in Oakland). Unbeleivable how far he could hit a softball
    (he was also drafted by the Mets).
	Oddly enough, he was never that good at football in H.S. He
    finally matured at Syracuse and became Oakland's #1 draft
    pick (@1969).
	My friend, the one who married Art's sister, used to
    follow the Raiders around occasionally and stay in the
    same hotel. He used to tell some pretty wild stories about 
    some of the things that went on the night before the games.

					Peter Meng