Tietam Brown by Mick Foley
Author:Mick Foley
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780307429742
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2007-12-17T16:00:00+00:00
November 27, 1985 / Afternoon
A very strange couple of weeks saw Hanrahan’s teaching and coaching career work its way to a pitiful conclusion. First, a team of experts concluded that the Conestoga riot should not entitle that team to their last eight seconds of game time. As a result, the final score remained 12–7, and the Togas had to settle for second place.
Next, a very beaten and battered Henry Hanrahan was placed under suicide watch at Cornell Medical Center as a bevy of witnesses came forth with pieces of knowledge about the coach’s past. In truth, it was mostly old news, but for some reason racial slurs, assaults, and statutory rape charges that seemed to slide off the winningest coach in section history now seemed just a little stickier to the laughingstock of Conestoga.
The principal, it seemed, had been informed of all previous complaints but had done nothing, and as a result was suspended pending further investigation.
Our house even served as a backdrop for some of the proceedings, as an unfailingly polite detective named Riley paid us a visit three days after the game.
“Mr. Brown,” the detective had said, “Mr. Hanrahan claims that you assaulted him, and intimidated him. Is that true?”
“Well I did try to intimidate him,” my father replied. “But I guess it didn’t work out too well, huh?”
“I guess not,” the detective said. “Were all these wounds the result of your visit to Mr. Hanrahan’s house?”
“Yes sir.”
“And why did you visit the home?”
“Because he assaulted my son in his classroom, sir.”
“Is that a fact?”
“It sure is. Hey Andy, come here.”
I showed up, the detective looked at my face and winced.
Tietam said, “And that’s over a week old. Should have seen him when he came home. Any father would have done the same.”
“Yeah, I suppose he might have.”
“Damn right,” Tietam said.
“So then you didn’t assault him?”
“Did that big monster look like he’d been assaulted?”
“No, not a scratch on him.”
“Probably just in his head. You know, his conscience catching up with him.”
“Probably so, Mr. Brown, probably so.”
Thanksgiving came and went without much fanfare, at least for us Antietams on Elston Court. Terri had gone with her parents to a town called Horseheads, which made me think of the first God-father, while I gave thanks and washed dishes at the diner.
Gave thanks for all the wonder that was filling up my days. And thanks for that next day to come, when I’d have Terri all alone. I hoped I would be ready. If our hot-water bill was any indicator, I would be.
I gave thanks too for my father, who hadn’t seemed himself. Since meeting up with what’s her name, he’d been living in a fog. A happy fog at first, it seemed, but with each passing day, his chances for a call seemed to shrink, and he looked a little sadder.
He still had his women, but he wasn’t nearly as loud. And he’d stopped doing his deck. He even bought an answering machine so he wouldn’t miss her potential call.
The phone rang at three on Friday afternoon, the day of my big date with Terri.
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