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Soul Council, What’s Jerry Rice doing here?

Posted by: sixtyone, August 22, 2010 | Share

When I walked up to the driving range to warm up I thought for a moment that I saw Marcus Allen hitting balls. Then I thought I saw Marshall Faulk. My first thoughts were…

“Damn, I didn’t think the first week went that well! Marcus, Marshall & Jerry Rice didn’t show up to play with us, did they!”

That would be no! They were there for the final round of The Advocates golf series. I forget who won. I was concentrating on our own match. But, Jerry Rice took 6th.

Oh yeah… in our match Team 2 won again. For those of you keeping score at home Team II has 2 wins. Since we switch the teams up each week we’re going to have to figure out some kind of scoring system. We’re going to have to post the standings so that some of us can relive our high school glory days.

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Soul Council, What’s Jerry Rice doing here?

When I walked up to the driving range to warm up I thought for a moment that I saw Marcus Allen hitting balls. Then I thought I saw Marshall Faulk. My first thoughts were…

“Damn, I didn’t think the first week went that well! Marcus, Marshall & Jerry Rice didn’t show up to play with us, did they!”