The Off Season
“Win Wasn't Captain for Nothing TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH, there were times I really missed Win sulking because it wasn't such a barrel of monkeys now that he was talking again. I don't know how a patient is supposed to act, but I have a feeling that bugging the doctors with a million questions, and demanding real rehab right in the middle of physical therapy, and getting on my case a hundred times a day about basketball—and all of this on major painkillers and muscle relaxants and stuff ... I mean,... that's a lot.
Plus he told Bill to go back to college. ordered him, really. He said Bill needed to keep playing football no matter what because his team needed him and so did the pros, and it was just a horribly bad and wimpy idea for Bill to even think about dropping football—which Bill had talked about with me a couple times as the two of us sat next to Win's bed back when he ignored us and pretended to be asleep. Which showed now just how much he'd been faking, because he lit into Bill about how rare injuries like his were, and how Bill needed to show courage for the other players, and for Win too.MoreLess
Plus he told Bill to go back to college. ordered him, really. He said Bill needed to keep playing football no matter what because his team needed him and so did the pros, and it was just a horribly bad and wimpy idea for Bill to even think about dropping football—which Bill had talked about with me a couple times as the two of us sat next to Win's bed back when he ignored us and pretended to be asleep. Which showed now just how much he'd been faking, because he lit into Bill about how rare injuries like his were, and how Bill needed to show courage for the other players, and for Win too.MoreLess
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