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Post by CHC8485 on Feb 27, 2017 14:48:23 GMT -5
Remember going onto the court following the 2003 PL Championship game with a then 8 year old HC16 to ask Neil for an autograph.
We were dwarfed by him as I reached way above my head to tap him on the shoulder to get his attention and he could not have been more accommodating in the middle of a big celebration.
RIP Neil.
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Feb 27, 2017 18:36:32 GMT -5
The more stories I read, the sadder I feel.
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Post by DiMarz on Feb 27, 2017 19:18:06 GMT -5
The first time I saw Neil, was at Burncoat HS. His first HS game, he was standing in the locker room waiting for the JV game to end, we could see him from the shoulders down! I remember him at a HC game when he was still in HS, sitting in the second row of the bleachers with his feet on the floor....and my daughter tells the storyof seeing him at the Irish Times in Worcester, he was seated at one of the hightop tables, he looked normal with his feet on the floor, and he was just a regular guy, smiling and laughing, enjoying life with a bunch of his HS friends....
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Post by gks on Feb 27, 2017 21:45:59 GMT -5
Just saw this on TV3's youtube page. Highlights from his first HC game.
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Post by Xmassader on Feb 28, 2017 8:03:41 GMT -5
gks. Thanks. Had seen Neil play only a few times in the pre-PL Network era and never in a game where he had more than a few minutes of action.
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Post by HC13 on Feb 28, 2017 8:32:56 GMT -5
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Post by lou on Feb 28, 2017 8:54:01 GMT -5
NY Times today Neil Fingleton, Mag the Mighty of ‘Game of Thrones,’ Dies at 36 nyti.ms/2lO6yDW
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Feb 28, 2017 19:03:21 GMT -5
In that first game, my mind's eye had the correct location of his first basket (baseline near visitor bench), but I had thought it was a hook shot, when it was a little jumper. Can't remember, but we must have went beserk on those dunks!
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Post by ts1970 on Feb 28, 2017 20:39:53 GMT -5
I remember my wife and I drove up from north Jersey just to see Neil play in his first game for HC vs. UNC Ashville. We were not disappointed and happy on the long drive home that night.
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Post by res on Mar 2, 2017 8:26:02 GMT -5
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Mar 10, 2017 19:12:50 GMT -5
Haven't watched it yet, but just stumbled upon this:
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Post by rf1 on Apr 2, 2017 7:20:03 GMT -5
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Post by hchoops on Apr 2, 2017 7:27:55 GMT -5
Another fine Jen T article
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