Interview at Rockville Center (after "Interview at Weehauken": fatal duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr)

“Interview”* at Rockville Center

Rockville Center Summer '66 (and Stanford/Crete/JetBlue Flight 97/- Setauket/Smithtown/Sacramento) descended directly from homecoming weekend at Kansas in November 1962. I had returned from a football recruiting trip to–you won't believe this–Northwestern, during the weekend of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and played a spectacular(ly lucky) game which made me a High School All-American (sorry; it matters).

A legend named Gayle Sayers (who had played high school football in Omaha--and knocked me out cold on the very first play of my 'career' ) would be playing his final season at KU the next year, and they were scouring the nation for a hotshot to replace him (in the event, an impossible task: he was one of the greatest athletes in American history--and author of a book and "documovie" [''Brian's Song''] about the fatal cancer of a heroic teammate).

Freshmen couldn't play on varsity teams in ...