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Offline Fldermaus

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not John Knott
« on: December 02, 2014, 09:46:42 AM »


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Re: not John Knott
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2014, 09:52:09 AM »
Lukermaus, though it may deserve its own thread

http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=3144.msg1268038#msg1268038

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/when-dyslexia-blocked-his-path-to-college-football-maryland-high-school-player-took-unusual-route/2014/12/01/f06c60aa-73f7-11e4-95a8-fe0b46e8751a_story.html

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Two years ago, Damion McIntosh received a message from a ghost. It came to his Facebook account, asking, “Do you know who this is?” McIntosh pondered the big, round face in the man’s pictures until slowly it dawned on him.

“I’m like: ‘Damn, that looks like my man Johnny Knott,’ ” recalled McIntosh, conjuring the name of a long-lost Kansas State football teammate. “I finally just said, ‘Where you been, man?’ ”

A thousand miles away, Jarryn Avery let loose a big, honking belly-laugh. Chalk up one more unsuspecting victim finally let in on a decades-old secret. And once the truth was revealed, Avery would start to fill in the details:



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Re: not John Knott
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2014, 10:10:21 AM »
Figured this was already posted somewhere...

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Re: not John Knott
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2014, 10:14:46 AM »
i just wish he would have stayed

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Re: not John Knott
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2014, 10:23:18 AM »
Definitely deserves its own thread...  I don't know that I'd have found or seen this had Lukermaus not been so lukie.

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Re: not John Knott
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2014, 11:42:58 AM »
i just wish he would have stayed

We might have beat aTm in '98 then...  :surprised:

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Re: not John Knott
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2014, 12:16:11 PM »
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/when-dyslexia-blocked-his-path-to-college-football-maryland-high-school-player-took-unusual-route/2014/12/01/f06c60aa-73f7-11e4-95a8-fe0b46e8751a_story.html

IDK if this goes here or in the scams & scammers thread. 
It is a fascinating story / situation.

I don't find that story inspirational at all.  It was like they were trying to force it to be inspirational when really it was just kind of a weird, boring story.