My fondest memories of Gloucester, Massachusetts include catching a 45-yard bomb in a preseason high-school game and jumping about the same distance from atop its wilderness rock quarry into the clear water below. Now, fair or unfair, I'll think of it as the town where girls, of the same age as when I jumped into the water and for the pass, sought to get pregnant en masse. Kay Hymowitz writes at City Journal that "what's most striking in the Gloucester story was that these girls had every intention of getting pregnant, and knew exactly how to get the job done. Unless someone has figured out how to force young people to take birth-control pills, sex education is completely beside the point." True, but lost amidst all the talk of "pacts" and Jamie Lynn Spears is a glaring truth that isn't discussed. What's interesting is not whether there was or wasn't a pact among the girls to have babies at such a young age. What's interesting is that if this were an inner-city high school, instead of a working-class white school, this would not be news. In fact, seventeen teenage girls getting pregnant amidst a pool of several hundred in Roxbury or Dorchester might be considered a local success story.
This is true. But it is what it is. Sort of like "Teen shot in Dorchester". Sad, but a big yawn nonetheless. Not much news in that.
Speaking of "move along, nothing to see here", what is wrong with Don Imus? Is he back on drugs or is he just senile?! Thinking and saying are two distinctly different things and you would think that a pro would know better.
it probably should be noted that any play other than a blast call at the line was about as common as having girls like this living in A-town. Although they would have made high school alot more interesting!
Glad you still remember that pass daniel, it may have been the longest in the Yep,Yep era
I second all of Morris's comments, and should note that he was the sender and I merely the receipient of the bomb noted in the main post.
You gents missed your window to make a donation. All you got to do when you were in Gloucester was to play some fooball.
Why the hell is "Gloucester" pronounced "glouster"?
Why is the dog named phideaux not just fido?
