CHECK THIS CRAP OUT!!!
Sorry, I'm getting a little ahead of myself. But seriously, great story, you should read it dozens of times and e-mail it to all your friends.
For those of you who don't know, I'm now one of the two sports desk interns for the Lafayette Journal and Courier in the beautiful town of Lafayette, Ind. Now, I haven't done any research into this, but I'm pretty sure I'm the tallest intern in J&C history. While this will probably make me feel better if and probably when my articles start sucking, it does have some nasty side effects, such as everyone from the managing editor to the theater critic asking how tall I am, and then subsequently inviting me to be on the staff basketball, softball, and bocce teams. This leaves me to wonder how long it will take them to figure out that I'm so uncoordinated that when I try to blink I end up winking one eye after the other.
There was no grace period in this internship. After lunch with the sports editor and a quick tour of the premises, I was thrust right into the thick of things with an assignment right off the bat. I was sent out to a really classy parking lot in front of a really classy Meijer to the first stop in the Indianapolis Colt's Make It Personal tour. That means I would get to talk to a couple of Colt's players and maybe try to steal a grope from a cheerleader or two.
What players did they send out? Peyton "Eli's Brother" Manning? Marvin "Handgun" Harrison? Jeff "Night Fever" Saturday?
Nope.
I got Kelvin Hayden, a starter but not top tier, and Kyle Shotwell, a scrub who got picked up from the waiver wire. Okay, not a lose your bowels type moment but I'm guessing it was two more NFL players than YOU talked to on Monday. I also talked to a couple of the Colts fans in attendance, who included a very nice couple with four kids all decked out in Colts gear, a dude with three teeth, and some kook who looked like he played on the Baltimore Colts and kept asking me why he couldn't take as many pictures as he wanted with the players.
But it was all good. I wrote the article, and got published in the J&C my first day on the job. Not too shabby...
DUMB JOCK QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I think it's just really important to let people from the outskirts of Indianapolis who are maybe just a little further away from the direct people in the city to kind of get a chance to taste what the Colts are all about, the tradition, and to meet some of the guys."-Kyle Shotwell, from the tour stop in LAFAYETTE, INDIANA, which is approximately an hour away from Indy and cannot in any way be confused with its "outskirts". Kelvin Hayden said much of the same thing. Methinks they slept in the limo ride up here.
Honorable mention goes to the aforementioned kook.
Days 2-4 are upcoming, I swear.
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