Posted on 09/08/2009 6:28:46 AM PDT by Bulldawg Fan
No one reads about the long snapper until he flubs the snap on a critical field-goal attempt or sails one over the punter’s head in a tight game.
If the starting snapper is obscure, that makes the third-teamer nearly invisible.
But South Carolina’s Matthew Grooms has a story that goes beyond football.
It started on a dirt road in Marlboro County, wound through the deserts of Kuwait and included a stop on the new sod at N.C. State’s Carter-Finley Stadium, where Thursday night the 26-year-old walk-on and Iraqi War veteran stood on the sidelines for the Gamecocks’ opener.
Grooms made the travel squad, but did not play in USC’s 7-3 win.
But the season is young. And considering all the sweat he’s poured out and IV bags he’s taken in to get to this point, Grooms is not going to give up now.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestate.com ...
Great story!
Go Gamecocks! Beat Dawgs!
Sorry! ;>
USC was frst, that little school in Southern California was second.
The founding date on my school ring is 1801.
Ergo, University of South Carolina is the real USC
I second that vote!
Lucky (the kind you work your butt of to be) kid. I am sure if he doesn’t get a scholarship next year that there are a thousand alumni who would pay the tab.
I prefer the more bombastic "was burned to the ground by domestic terrorists during the War of Northern Aggression".
I wouldn’t bother to argue with someone who got a second rate education at a little school in southern California.
We grad of the Real USC know better.
(Just kidding dude)
That’s not nearly as bad as what would be left should the Trojans lay waste to any Secesh wearing Gamecok jerseys they might find on the football field in Columbia.
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