I tried like hell. I had to pick my spots, because this was our third season and I already had a relationship with the many reporters out there that were covering our games.
Steve Elling at the LA Times. Eric Sondheimer at The Daily News. Alex Leon, Keith Lair and Don Emmons at The Glendale News Press and Foothill Leader just to name a few.
They already knew me and had I interjected the phrase “quick ….panther-like” during an interview they may have thought I lost my mind.
I did try a few times to get myself quoted in the papers as saying that about you guys ….usually when some new guy was interviewing me I’d never seen before….but none of these guys had taken the bait.
I think all you guys would have gotten a kick out of seeing that in the papers. Myself included.
It just wasn’t happening….
But I was determined to get it in there….
……somehow.
Read about how I made a last-ditch effort in the win against Newhall-Saugus to get one of those damn papers to print “quick….panther-like” in one of the stories about us.
This was about the only thing that didn’t go our way in ’92.
Like I say though……I tried like hell. And as you’ll see….so did THE GENERAL!!!!
Just read this one again….it’s at the bottom of the story.
https://verdugo288.wordpress.com/2020/05/20/verdugo-4-newhall_saugus-3-20-3/
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