Posted on 09/29/2004 6:56:58 PM PDT by Libloather
Navy doesn’t need much motivation
By MARK SCHLABACH
Published: Wednesday, Sep. 29, 2004
A few minutes after Navy beat Army last December, Athletic Director Chet Gladchuk had an order for Capt. Greg Cooper, the academy’s deputy director of athletics. “Go get the trophy,” Gladchuk told him. Two days later, Cooper flew to the Air Force Academy, where he gladly accepted the Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy from the Falcons.
But later that day, when Cooper arrived at Colorado Springs, Colo., Airport with the trophy delicately packed in its metal box, airline officials told him they couldn’t fit the box through the boarding door or into the cargo hold of the jet taking him to Baltimore. Airline personnel suggested shipping the trophy, which would arrive in three or four days.
“You don’t understand,” Cooper told them. “I’m not going back to the academy without it.”
So Cooper did what any proud Midshipman would do. He rented a U-haul truck, strapped the trophy in and drove more than 1,700 miles to Annapolis, Md.
“I never realized there were so many country-western radio stations between here and Colorado Springs,” Cooper said. “It was a labor of love, but we were eager to show the Midshipmen what they’d won.”
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Oh yeah - Beat Navy.
A labor of love ~ Bump!
Go Navy!
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