David Fields:  

Life I want to say hi to all my friends at Palmetto: Kee Kragness, Tim Smock, George Alvarez, David Weese, Doug Dewar, Brian Roma ("Sterno Canned Heat..."), Ken Merrill, Joe Stafford, Jeff Reagan and a big debt of gratitude to Gary Phipps who got me into Pop Warner Football. And on the Falcons, I want to say "hi" to Darin Rossi (big time movie star on the Bad News Bears...he was the umpire). And there was a line in which Billy Bob Thornton told his team that "tieing was like kissing your sister". Wasn't that a line that Coach Chitwood used to tell us? I bet Darin had that thrown in. If Darin ever reads this, I would like to know. I'm living my dream in Kentucky with a great job and going to school studying more Electronics (what else, right?). I hope you are all doing well. David Fields School I suppose it was during the swim meet against Yucaipa in 1980. The water must have been no higher than 65 degrees. Miserable. Like always, we had "warmed up" before the meet. My first event that day was the 500 freestyle. "Swimmers take your Mark.....Stand Up!" (Someone had false started). By this time, I had forward momentum and tried desperately not to fall in. I flailed my arms wildly, but to no avail. I was heading straight in. As I...Expand for more