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\"DHSfootball-huddle\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I want to share something really goofy with you \u2013 really <\/em>goofy.
\nSo, I\u2019m sitting in a movie theater, watching the last trailer before the movie starts …. and it happened. I heard the intro to my movie\u2019s trailer. Then the scene illuminates in my imagination and I\u2019m seeing the trailer for my novel\u2019s movie \u2013 Desert High<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It starts off with the voice of one Michael Moye \u2013 a sophomore player on our varsity football team at Desert High School:<\/p>\n

(Moye): \u201cI say Desert \u2013 you say Scorpions\u201d
\nDesert \u2013 \u201c<\/em>
\n(The rest of the team): \u201cSCORPIONS!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A shot of the Desert High football team on the sidelines, getting fired up before the kickoff.<\/p>\n

I am hearing all of this loud and clear in my head
\nAnd I\u2019m seeing the edits, too.<\/p>\n

This sudden \u201cvision\u201d of sorts brings me an immediate emotional rush.
\nI choke up.<\/p>\n

Shots of football action takes center stage.
\nIt\u2019s the end of the Desert vs. Mammoth 1980 CIF playoff game.
\nThe Mammoth Huskie team, with their dark maroon jerseys and golden\/orange helmets are rushing to the line of scrimmage near the goal line.<\/p>\n

The Desert Scorpions defense is lining up in their all-white uniforms and helmets.
\nThe camera is moving fast and jumbling a bit \u2013 emphasizing the action.<\/p>\n

The camera pans over to the Desert sidelines.
\nThe Desert coaches are shouting at the refs, a couple are rotating their arms, trying to signal the referees that they should be running the clock instead of keeping it stopped.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last play was a running play,\u201d<\/em> they\u2019re shouting, \u201croll the clock!\u201d<\/em>
\nThey\u2019re faces are exploding with animation, disbelief and anger.<\/p>\n

The running play is stuffed. The Mammoth quarterback, Marty Zwartz, tosses the ball into the end zone with both hands \u2013 like an inbound basketball pass. Their offensive tackle jumps on it. The officials raise their hands.<\/p>\n

TOUCHDOWN!<\/p>\n

The camera shakes, showing pandemonium, the Desert players are waving their arms, signifying incomplete pass. The Mammoth players are jumping and raising their hands, celebrating.<\/p>\n

Another scene shows three officials in various semi-formal clothes standing around in an office with a placque on the wall reading \u201cCalifornia Interscholastic Federation Athletic Officials Regional Office.\u201d They\u2019re shaking their heads, holding both hands up in a shrug, admitting to the Desert coach, \u201cWe have no excuses, Coach. We blew these calls. We should have run the clock. We\u2019re sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another quick edit shows a few Desert High players hanging out in a driveway, sharing beverages and memories. They\u2019re in their mid-30s, talking about this game:<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw the ball coming right at me,\u201d<\/em> one says, \u201cI batted it down. Incomplete pass. Game over.\u201d <\/em>The rest of his friends shake their heads, and quickly express how messed up the situation was.<\/p>\n

Another scene shows tailback Kelly Love explaining, \u201cCoach Matthews apologized to me later,\u201d he says, as the screen shows black and white archive footage of him running around the end for a touchdown, \u201cHe told me that it was this game where he finally learned that giving me the ball 25, 30 times in a game can take over and wear the other team out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The next edit shows me typing in my windows password to open the operating system in my editor\u2019s office. The camera shows my fingers on the keyboard and the individual letters that pop up and then turn into asterisks. M \u2013 a \u2013 m \u2013 m \u2013 o \u2013 t \u2013 h \u2013 S \u2013 u \u2013 c \u2013 k \u2013s is seen and my lips are moving and saying the phrase under my breath.<\/p>\n

The phone rings, the camera shows me picking it up.
\n\u201cDoug! How\u2019s my favorite brother-in-law?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The camera splits the screen, showing Major Martin \u201cTex\u201d Myers on the other end. <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou won\u2019t believe this, Doug, but we\u2019ve built a time machine out here at Edwards.\u201d
\nA close up of my eyes flashes.
\n\u201cRemember that Mammoth playoff game your senior year? We\u2019re looking for a guinea pig to go back\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The camera flashes back to action from the game.<\/p>\n

It shows me walking down the gateway, about to board a plane, with my thoughts narrated, \u201cHere I am, participating in a secret mission with a security clearance from the United States Air Force and how do they transport me from Austin to Edwards? Southwest Airlines,\u201d<\/em> my character shakes his head.<\/p>\n

I see other parts of the \u201cmovie\u201d in my head. The playoff game at Trona, the players hanging out on a Saturday night, deciding to do “monkey rolls” drills on the grass in someone’s front yard. The flightline at Edwards A.F.B. with all sorts of jets on it.<\/p>\n

It kinda makes me weepy and I can\u2019t shake the feeling for the next two hours while I\u2019m watching a pretty good flick in The Hunger Games<\/em>. I\u2019m engaged in this story, but I\u2019m practically gripping my seat with the adrenaline and feel-good emotion of imagining my dream of seeing my Desert High novel becoming a big-time movie.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s so goofy and I\u2019m lame to admit this, but I\u2019m just flooded with these emotions. Afterward I sense that tension in my stomach \u2013 like I could run a marathon or box Rocky Balboa in the ring for 15 rounds. I\u2019m just pumped up and choked up at the same time.<\/p>\n

Wow.<\/p>\n

I so want to see this happen.<\/p>\n

Call it a pipe dream, call it far-fetched, call it Walter Mitty daydreaming his life away, but I like that feeling.<\/p>\n

Who knows if anything\u2019ll happen with this. All I know is that my imagination caught a glimpse of it tonight (it was vivid) and it fired me up in a big way.<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s true. I\u2019m a total idiot. I\u2019m even dumber for sharing these thoughts, but I don\u2019t really care if everyone knows how much of a goober I am. I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

Watch, tomorrow I\u2019ll regret having posted this. Ha ha.<\/p>\n

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