What are the odds?
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 1:31 am
Yesterday I renewed my medical with a semi-nearby AME. On the FAA form you may recall one enters whether one has been unconscious for any reason. I have always answered "yes", as in the distant past I've been knocked out several times.
The AME asks me when the last time was, to which I answer "Fall 1971". "How did it happen", he asks. I replied I was on a semi-pro football team playing the Colorado State Prison Team in the old max-security prison in CaƱon City and got knocked out on a kickoff return.
He's greatly entertained, relating that when at the Air Force Academy in 1968-69 he was on what was then called the "JV" football team and they also played there. So we had a grand old time reminiscing about the educational experience playing inside those old stone walls against, among other things, convicted killers.
The AME asks me when the last time was, to which I answer "Fall 1971". "How did it happen", he asks. I replied I was on a semi-pro football team playing the Colorado State Prison Team in the old max-security prison in CaƱon City and got knocked out on a kickoff return.
He's greatly entertained, relating that when at the Air Force Academy in 1968-69 he was on what was then called the "JV" football team and they also played there. So we had a grand old time reminiscing about the educational experience playing inside those old stone walls against, among other things, convicted killers.