John Ed has been a staff writer at the Washington Post, is a regular contributor to Sports Illustrated, and has written for GQ, Esquire, and many other publications. He is the author of Tupelo Nights, The Best There Ever Was, Love & Obits, Smoke, My Juliet, Restoration, and It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium. John Ed lives in New Orleans.
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It was the biggest high you could have. No drugs could match it. The way it felt to run out there with the crowd yelling for you. I wish every kid could experience that.
Such was life for 21-year-old John Ed Bradley, the All-SEC starting center for the Louisiana State University Tigers football team. However, after his final game in the purple and gold, he not only closed the door on his locker but he closed the door on that portion of his life. Refusing to open it up and spoil the best years of his life.
Bradley would move on, seemingly leaving football behind, untouched, and untarnished. He declined alumni invitations and shied away from football events. But he couldn't help looking back and soon his past was right in front of him.
Twenty-three years later, Bradley could still remember the names, weights and jersey numbers of the teammates he called brothers. And after the death of a former fellow linesman, Bradley could no longer fight off his Tiger memories.
John Ed has been a staff writer at the Washington Post, is a regular contributor to Sports Illustrated, and has written for GQ, Esquire, and many other publications. He is the author of Tupelo Nights, The Best There Ever Was, Love & Obits, Smoke, My Juliet, Restoration, and It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium. John Ed lives in New Orleans.
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