Senior tight end Clay Broyles and senior cornerback C.L. Grogan will be the Demons' player representatives Tuesday and Wednesday at the annual Southland Conference Football Media Kickoff event, staged this year in Houston.
All of the players get to attend the Tuesday night Astros-Dodgers game. All of the players have to play golf Wednesday morning with the media and head coaches of the eight SLC football programs.
Note the difference. For some players, the golf outing is, shall we say, akin to walking on the moon. Without oxygen.
I really don't know if Clay or C.L. can play a lick of golf, but they're good fellows and will have fun with it. If they are not golfers, they have plenty of company in that tournament.
Through the years, we've had some really great players look like Ned in the First Primer on the golf courses around Texas and Louisiana. Whatever Clay and C.L. do, they'll be hard pressed to overtake the comic lowlights provided at past SLC events by Demons Marcus Spears and Adam Swales.
Neither had even taken a golf class when they teed it up for the first time ever.
Spears literally hit the ball backwards once. He somehow nicked the ball back about a 60 degree angle across the tee, knocking it about 40 feet askew.
Better than Swales, who had some of the best hands I've ever seen on a Demon receiver. Adam had played respectably for several holes until it all fell apart on three beautiful swings on the 10th tee.
They were picture perfect, identical swings. The first took a beautiful divot just a couple of inches to the inside of the teed-up ball. The second and third tickled the same divot, but never contacted the ball.
I told Swales, golfers have played for years and have not replicated the same swing that well on three straight tries.
He didn't seem to savor the accomplishment!
But most of all, our guys grinned and kept swinging. Spears even knocked in a couple of nifty putts, once he realized velocity was not an advantage as it was in blocking.
Doug Ireland, SID
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