Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Microcap & Penny Stocks : Green Oasis Environmental, Inc. (GRNO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (10627)	6/26/1999 2:28:00 PM
From: Norman H. Hostetler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13091

Billy Carroway, football hero???? I've lifted this Billy Carroway story from a lengthy analytical article (by David Corn in "The Nation," issue dated July 5, 1999) about Bill Bradley's Presidential campaign, but it's the story itself and its "source" that I'm interested in: In Manchester Bradley was the guest at a YMCA "character" breakfast held in a gym. Standing beneath large banners that bore the buzzwords of the day--HONESTY, CARING, RESPONSIBILITY, RESPECT--he was in values overdrive. He talked about the importance of diligence. Why work so hard? he asked the children present. Because, he answered, "those who love you are watching you." This was the cue for a wonderful tale. Many years ago, Bradley said, there was a player on the Georgetown University football team named Billy Carroway. He was not a starter and never got to play. In his last year on the squad, the team reached the championship game. Throughout the game, Georgetown trailed. No matter what the Georgetown coach did, ha could not move his team into the lead. Meanwhile, Carroway kept trying to win the coach's attention and earn some playing time. Then, in the closing moments, with Georgetown down by three points, the frustrated coach signaled to Carroway. Carroway entered the game, and, as time ran out, he caught the winning touchdown pass. After the celebrating, the coach asked Carroway what had made him so determined to succeed. Carroway explained that he was motherless and that his blind father had never been able to watch him play. But his father had recently died, which meant he could now look down on his son. This game would be the last chance his father would have to see him play. Carroway had no choice, he told the coach: "I had to succeed" The story held the imagination of the crowd. It was drenched with values: faith, love, dedication, determination. No politics. No policy. It was out of the movies--the old-fashioned movies. Bradley used it to connect to the crowd, to demonstrate that he is a man of those values and that he can inspire millions of others to strive toward such stirring success--which is why, he says, he is running for President. Later that day, I asked Eric Hauser, Bradley's press secretary, for the origins of the Carroway story. It took him a week to respond. When Hauser called, he said Bradley told him that he first heard the story about thirty years ago. But--to save me time--Hauser had contacted Georgetown. The school, he said, "has no record of that player, and, on a hunch, I checked with Notre Dame. There's no record there. Everyone thinks it's a true story. But I can't source it." Do you suppose this is OUR William "Billy" Carroway? "About thirty years ago" would be about right according to age. And it certainly seems to fit: drenched with values and promises of ultimate success, but on careful inspection, it appears that "there's no record there." =+=+=Norm Hostetler