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Message: [QUOTE="Deepster, post: 5277525, member: 25"] Wow. Struck a nerve with that one. Fran Laffin was a teacher at my high school (South Catholic). Supposedly was set to be drafted by the Celtics and they took Charlie Scott, so he ended up overseas where he actually had his own sneaker deal. When I was a junior, our school took a class trip with the history club to Oahu. We stayed next to a naval base and there was a basketball court. He rounded a few of us up, skinny nerdy 17 yr olds and told this group of grown Navy guys "we got next". We thought he was nuts and were immediately intimidated. These guys were specimens. What happened the next 2 games was insane. He pretty much single handedly beat the pants off them and the games weren't close. It was a highlight reel of passes, shots, blocks and lots of trash talk by him. It could have been a movie scene. One of my favorite memories. [/QUOTE]