When I was at the local paper, I covered Christian at a small Catholic school. He had a signing day to play football at Valparaiso before he started getting SEC track interest spring of his senior year.

Don’t sleep on the Purple Pounders!

I also thought of Billy Jack. Fun fact: Tom Laughlin played football for Marquette University before they disbanded the program.

Getting ready to snooze atop our record player

@foreverchangespxv.bsky.social Well, my plans for next weekend are set!

The other MJ in ‘84 too

My Spotify Wrapped checks out

I always think of the day they were introducing him in Atlanta and a box caught on fire. They started calling him Fire Dog for a while.