football talk
Dick Lynch was a DB for the Giants in the sixties and their long-time radio announcer. His younger brother worked for my father and we have known the family for many years. Anyway:
When Lynch was dating his wife-to-be in 1962, her family was against her seeing a football player, but Lynch was insistent and planned to fly his fiancee's parents out to NY (from the midwest) to see a game and take them to dinner. They flew out the night before the game and didn't get a chance to meet Dick. Meanwhile, their daughter is telling them what a great guy he is.
They get to the stadium and are waiting for the players to come out for practice. Dick wore #21, so they were looking for him by number. Meanwhile, he and Erich Barnes (another DB), who were good friends figured it would be funny to switch uniforms to shock the hell out of the fiancee's parents (Barnes is African-American). #21 comes out on the field and Dick's in-laws to be almost die because it is Barnes wearing the uni and they think that this is their daughter's boyfriend.
They still got married.
I'm sure he told this story to many people, but I enjoyed it immensely.
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