{"id":11554,"date":"2014-10-04T13:52:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11554"},"modified":"2014-10-04T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T13:52:07","slug":"teammates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11554","title":{"rendered":"Teammates……."},"content":{"rendered":"

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What wonderful time I had yesterday catching up with many of my teammates from the 1962-63 & 64 Harlan High School football teams!\u00a0 It was amazing how many things we all remembered and had a great laughs over.\u00a0 More than a few times we were teary eyed when our former coach Bill Cricillis gave us one more pep talk about life.\u00a0 It is amazing that so much time could pass, 50 years! and there would be the closeness of having been a team, still being a team.<\/p>\n

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It made me reflect driving home last night how unbelievably blessed I was to have had, and still have,\u00a0 such friends, to have been part of such a team.\u00a0 In our Junior and Senior years we had great seasons, winning the conference once and missed going to the play offs by a single game.\u00a0 We had a few stand out players, but we were mostly a bunch of good solid football players that all played a role in the victories.\u00a0 It was really a great experience to see all these men again, five decades later.\u00a0 It was homecoming for the Harlan Green Dragons last night and we were thrilled to be the honorary captains for the coin toss.\u00a0 Walking out to the center of the field I told Tom Pope, it was great to be on the field with him again, his look said it all.\u00a0 In just a glance I could see what I believe we were all feeling, in spite of the fact that these men have accomplished a lot in their own lives, this was a great honor, and we all relished it.\u00a0 It was a truly special moment.<\/p>\n

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I also thought driving the hour and half home, how many great teams I’ve gotten to be a member of, my family, my church, the His Light team, the faithful friends, the Nikon NPS team, the list goes on and on, but the bottom line is God has richly blessed me to let me rub elbows with such great people, people I’ve admired and learned from.\u00a0 If you can get to this age and look at your life, and see this much joy, you’ve had a great life.\u00a0 Thank you Lord for the ride……..<\/p>\n

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Blessings<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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  What wonderful time I had yesterday catching up with many of my teammates from the 1962-63 & 64 Harlan High School football teams!\u00a0 It was amazing how many things we all remembered and had a great laughs over.\u00a0 More than a few times we were teary eyed when our former coach Bill Cricillis gave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11557,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11554\/revisions\/11557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}