Playing For Keeps: #UofJ3 by Ciz Alley

Author:Ciz, Alley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: House of Crazy Publishing LLC
Published: 2020-12-03T00:00:00+00:00

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Bette, being the most organized person on the planet—I swear it was the reason why being a long-distance newlywed was easy for her—arranged everything about the trip for not only us with her, but everyone joining us.

Somehow, someway, she was able to work out flight arrangements that had the five of us flying in from Baltimore, G and D from New York, and CK from Kansas landing in at Dallas/Fort Worth within an hour of each other.

Em and Q are also arriving in Dallas today but will be tied up with their commitments with the Red Squad, so we won’t see them until later this evening.

After collecting Bette’s bag from baggage claim and meeting up with the rest of our party, we walk outside, all of us sighing at the comforting heat that greets us. Sixty degrees may not seem all that warm, but when you live in the northeast and you’re used to your winters typically being in the thirties, if not colder, this is t-shirt weather.

Bette leads the way like she’s Mama Duck, and we follow like her faithful ducklings until she comes to a stop at a man holding a white dry erase board with Dennings scrawled across it in messy black marker.

Being the smallest of the bunch, T, Savvy, and I tuck ourselves in the back row of the Yukon XL Denali. When we hear Bette confirming with the driver that he will be dropping our bags off with the front desk at our hotel, we share a laugh at the military-esque precision Bette used in her approach for planning our travels.

Not only was she able to secure a four-bedroom suite in the same hotel the U of J is staying at, she also called in one of her own personal connections to arrange a private tour of AT&T Stadium.

Miles Dennings—running back for the Outlaws and a player on my fantasy team, the Dennings Family Reunion—had grown close with E during their multiple Pro Bowl appearances together, but it was how easily Bette and his wife Denise hit it off that led to the friendship between the two Dennings families.

As was the case any time I attended games for E, Bette and I would hang back, doing our own laid-back thing out of the spotlight of all the hoopla. When Denise—a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover model—overheard our plans to spend the hours before the Pro Bowl getting manis and pedis instead of attending the fancy party the NFL put on, she jumped at the chance to join. And the rest is, how you say, history.

With all the press and media coverage surrounding the Cotton Bowl—the bowl game not the stadium, since the game is no longer played in its namesake—we wouldn’t normally risk being near the epicenter, but today is one of the rare days when the U of J’s practice is closed to both the press and the public.

I do feel a mild amount of trepidation, but the tour will be private and an awesome experience, especially for those who have never done anything like it before.

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