America 1979

Chapter 25
At the beginning of seven o'clock, with unspeakable emotions, the members of the Hamatun High School team boarded the bus back to school.

Outside the giant "bowl" shaped stadium, the spectators have already gone, leaving behind some procrastinating young and old, various magical charitable and welfare organizations, and booths for raising funds for various intractable diseases. The main ones are all kinds of food.

The spectators who were still circling outside the stadium were not too harsh on the losing side. There were quite a few white-haired old men and women pumping their fists at these strong young men. Most of them came with their children and grandchildren. Understand the rules of the game, but don't care about winning or losing.

In their eyes, these lads swaying their sweat on the court are naturally worthy of encouragement.

On the bus, assistant coach James clarified the training plan for the next two days. In addition to the offensive and defensive drills of the starting players, the physical improvement of the substitute players and bench players will continue as usual.

Of course, he didn't forget the starting competition for the defensive tackle position and the offensive end position.

"Everything depends on strength!"

This announcement naturally caused the players to whisper again, and Hayes, who was sitting on the side, leaned into Bill's ear: "It seems that there are many people who are not convinced by you, but it doesn't matter, after you overthrow those two tackles, you will be on the team. status will be greatly improved."

Bill also whispered: "Actually, I don't really want to grab other people's starting positions. I just want to go to college quickly. After all, you also know that I have wasted a lot of time in the past two years. If you can, Can you help me send a message to those classmates to express my apology, because my behavior may affect their grades for further studies."

He just wants to grab the starting position, and if he doesn't fight for the opportunity, it won't fall into his hands.

The reason why Hayes was used indirectly as a personal favor to ease the relationship with the two players who were robbed was purely for the background check of possible future college admissions.

Rugby is a sport that attaches great importance to team relations. When recruiting players, college teams will not only send hard-core yardages, physical strength, and game results, but also send special personnel to check the intelligence and social skills of high school students who enter the list.

In case the scouts at the university do not rate Bill well because of the complaints of these players, they will suffer from being dumb.

It's not really spending money, using real money to open a relationship, but just letting someone pass a word is still within Bill's acceptance.

Hayes nodded solemnly, focusing on his size. Bill's status in the team will never be lowered in the future. He wants to hug his thigh, so he naturally cares about this matter.

"However, I don't think they will be too hostile to you. You play their starting position, which does not mean that they will withdraw from the starting lineup, but just change to a lower-level marginal position. What's more, tackles and ends It’s not quarterbacks and running backs, you don’t have to be so careful in the middle of the team.”

Hayes enlightened Bill in this way, and his impression of this new player increased a bit. He can also consider the relationship with the opponent when competing for the starting position, and his emotional intelligence must not be low.

Next, the topic of the two quickly shifted to the white legs of the cheerleaders. Today, not only those from our school came, but also the big white legs of the rival New York County-Lincoln High School.

Beautiful women are always the eternal talk among men.

After returning to school, he transferred to the school bus and went home. The family members had a higher evaluation of Bill.

"Our rugby star is back." The uncle was still cooking, and he and his nephew who had returned home jumped up and high-fived like the players, and then went into the kitchen to cook.

"I saw you, sitting on the bench beside the field, looking like a commanding general, my dear Bill!"

My aunt was also very happy. She was already gaining weight in her 40s, and her face became round. When her husband and nephew finished high-fiving, she jumped up and kissed Bill's cheek fiercely.

Mr. Ferrari was still getting used to the Italian immigrant's way of expressing affection, and he was a little embarrassed by this sudden sip.

Sister Dorothy and younger brother Neo are more reserved, or they are not as open as adults who go out to drink every day.

"Can you pick me up from school in your football uniform?" my brother asked.

Bill thought for a while, "Okay, once my jersey number is determined, I will find you at your school in some free time."

Football numbers are regular, one to nineteen are used by quarterbacks, kickers, kickers, wide receivers, etc., twenty to 49 are used by running backs, cornerbacks, fullbacks, fifty to 59 It is used by centers and linebackers, 79 to [-] are used by the center five pairs on the offensive and defensive line, and the rest are used by wide receivers, tight ends, defensive linemen and linebackers.

In general, this division is only to help the referee distinguish between players with the ball and players without the ball. For example, 79 to [-] are all players without the ball.

His jersey number will not be finalized until Bill settles the starting position tomorrow.

"Yeap!" Neo cheered vaguely.

The night time slipped away quietly in the family's fantasy of Bill becoming a big star, and even Anthony, who was not there, was raised and scolded a few times.

The next morning, the school bus driver in charge came here to pick up the school team training students on official business. Bill was wearing the sportswear he bought two days ago, refreshed and ready for a big fight.

There were basically no people in the school on Saturday. Mr. Ferrari walked through the quiet campus all the way to the locker room in the sports training hall, and then began to change clothes.

"Look at those people, it's like you stole their girlfriends!"

Hayes strolled over to Bill, who was changing clothes, and pouted at the front tackles.

These few knew each other before, but now they huddled into a small group because of being challenged together. They huddled in the corner and didn't know what they were discussing. From time to time, they looked over to Bill who had just entered the locker room.

Bill looked in the direction of Hess' mouth, chuckled lightly, and secretly felt that these people were seventy-eight little kids after all.

"Has the word I asked you to bring reach?"

Hayes replied in a low voice: "I repeated your words to three of them this morning. Unfortunately, they thought you were hypocritical and weak."

"I think Bill, you should give them a good meal today, and when you're done warming up, you'll smash them hard!"

Bill nodded, signaling that he understood.

He felt more and more that it was time to change his character. This is America, not the Xia Kingdom in his previous life. There is no market for comity, respect and frugality here.

If you should be arrogant, you must be arrogant.

After changing his outfit, he said loudly to Hayes: "Yesterday was so miserable because I didn't play, and the team still needs me to save it."

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