Well, after soccer practice some of the guys on the team used to pull jokes on each other's cars. I started driving before Adam, so I would pick him up and bring him to practice. Adam and I would plan different things to do to some of the members of the team. Our target on one particular day after practice was Jason Barnett. Adam and I made water balloons and had them in my truck to get him after practice. We hit Jason and some of the other team members with a couple of water balloons and then drove off with Jason throwing the balloon that did not break back at us. Well we had a few water balloons left and we still were not done with Jason, so we went to his house to get him when he got home. Jason pulled up to his house and Adam jumped out of my truck and hit Jason with a couple of water balloons. Adam started running back to the truck so we could make our get away and while Adam was running to my truck he tripped a little on the curb and he ran into the corner of the door. His eye was split wide open and he had to go to some dance that weekend. I drove off as fast as I could while Adam had blood coming out of his eye.
I loved playing on the same team as Adam. He was my right fullback and together Jason, Adam, and I made the tallest defense in history. I was the tallest at 5'9". Best right back I have ever played with.
Thanks Todd! I believe Adam told me that it was also Jason that would erase the "P" from Puckett off of his water bottle and replace it with some other letters to spell obscene things.
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I remember when Adam came home that day. His eye looked hideous! And the story that he told my parents was so awful, I'm surprised they believed it. I think he told them that he had the door open in Todd's car and somebody ran by and pushed it on him and it caused his hand to fly up and hit his eye. It was probably the worst story ever. Didn't make any sense at all.
I vividly remember Adam coming in the door telling me he got hurt at practice. I expected a leg, knee or shoulder injury, but when he rounded the corner, he had his hand over his eye. Expecting some kind of joke, I was waiting for the punch line when he moved his hand, revealing his eye. It looked like someone had tried to gouge his eye out. It bled beneath the eyelid to 5 times bigger than normal. It would have caused some mothers to faint because it was so grotesque. Since this wasn't my first experience with an Adam injury, I picked up the phone and called our doctor, John Foret, whose number I knew by heart. He met us at the hospital emergency room and was preparing to inject a numbing shot into the wound, when the nurse in the area next to us dropped a tray of instruments. It startled all of us, except John, who kept his cool and never flinched. He could have put Adam's eye out, but not to worry, he patched him up as usual and sent him on his way. I never believed the story Adam told us about how it happened and always thought we would hear the truth some day. Thanks, Todd for finally telling us the "rest of the story".
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