Credits & Contents

Volume 2

Editor-in-Chief:

Mark Rabinowitz

Contributors:

Jared Goldapper

Matt Paletz

John Oros

Tim Story

Computer Technical Support:

Sander J. Rabinowitz ('86)

Contents:

Introduction

A quick introduction to the G&G Reunion Issue from the Editor

The Famous Final Scene

The Dave Poelke Band has its final gig at Matt Paletz's graduation party

(Mr.) Bo(luch) Knows Calculus

Mr. Boluch motivates students to succeed on AP Calculus exam

The Vocabulary Game Dictionary

Mrs. Sparrow tested the vocabulary knowledge of the 1989-90 Advanced Placement
Senior English class. Now you can learn (or re-learn) the words.

G&G News Briefs

A series of brief stories featuring members of the Class of 1990

A Spartan's Adaptation

G&G looks back on 1991, a pivotal season in Mill Coleman's football career at Michigan State

From Davis to Hale

How black and silver became the Class of 1990's colors

Dismissed as Chance?

A look at mysterious similarities in outcomes between the Harrison Hawks
football team and the NBA's Detroit Pistons from 1986-87 to 1990-91.

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Introduction

The Editor-in-Chief welcomes you to another issue of G&G

When we graduated in 1990, Channel 2 (WJBK-TV) aired CBS programs, the Detroit Red Wings were 35 years removed from their last Stanley Cup, the Soviet Union had not yet broken up, the Milwaukee Brewers were still an American League team, and the Internet was more like a dirt road than the "Information Superhighway" we enjoy today.

Welcome, my fellow alumni, to the Green & Gold Reunion Issue.

As with the first G&G (1990), the backbone of the Reunion Issue is stories that are admittedly trivial, yet memorable enough that I felt they needed some kind of preservation, lest they be forgotten.  I'll let you in on a little secret, too: That Vocabulary Game Dictionary was originally going to be part of that first G&G, but then I thought, if Mrs. Sparrow decided to do one more Vocabulary Game between the time it was published and the end of the school year, that would render the article incomplete.

I chose to publish this issue of G&G on the Web for a few reasons:

• It's much cheaper to publish on the Web than it is to print a magazine
• Laying out a printed magazine can be a time-consuming pain in the neck
• Online articles can include links to other web pages; printed articles can't
• If there's an error, it's easier to fix an electronic copy than it is to fix 200 printed copies
• And oh, yeah, it's eco-friendly

In the first ten years after we graduated from Harrison High School, we scattered far and wide. It has been my hope that the Internet would keep many of us in touch. 100 or even 50 years ago, we might have been more likely to stay close to home; thus, it would be much easier to keep tabs on one another, but now, people change their jobs and places of residence much more often than ever before.

I hope you find the G&G Reunion Issue to be fun and entertaining to read, and above all, I hope it brings back memories you may otherwise have forgotten. Dig in and enjoy.

Sincerely,

Mark Rabinowitz

G&G Editor-in-Chief

The Famous Final Scene

The Dave Poelke Band has its final gig at Matt Paletz's graduation party

They seemed to have come out of nowhere. To many of their fans, it all began with all those photocopies of a picture of Mr. David T. Poelke, Harrison High School's assistant principal, with "The Dave Poelke Band" boldly written next to his face.

The band performed at the 1990 HHS Talent Show. That year, the Student Council had taken steps to make sure that the Talent Show was "a 100% Harrison talent show"--no alumni, and especially no students from other schools like North Farmington High. Nobody could have predicted the success of that show--or the band.

Then came the fateful winter night. Amid a host of great acts, The Dave Poelke Band--drummer Matt Paletz, keyboardist Chuck Alkazian (then known as Chuck Lagas), guitarist/lead singer Jeff Szymanski and guitarist Jon Blatt ('91)--was the greatest. The auditorium rocked with their covers of "What I Like About You" by the Romantics and "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" by Great White. Paletz stole the show by ripping his shirt open as he leaped off the stage, gaining a spot in the May 30, 1990 Swing-Out slide show and garnering a few tongue-in-cheek "Best Body" votes.

The Dave Poelke Band could be thought of as a supergroup, because its members came from other bands. Alkazian and Szymanski played in another band in the 1989 Talent Show. Alkazian drummed and Szymanski played guitar with that band, which, in that 1989 show, performed a rendition of Guns n' Roses' hit, "Patience." But after the Student Council banned alumni, that band could not perform intact.

Meanwhile, Paletz and Blatt had another band. It formed when Paletz was a junior and Blatt a sophomore. But Ron Letwinski (a 1989 alumnus) was in it, and so he, too, could not perform at the 1990 Talent Show.

The band's name was Paletz's idea. He and Mr. Poelke got to know each other (to say the least) during lunch hours when Paletz was a freshman. Conversation topics included Paletz's dream of taking Cindy Green ('87), to the 1987 Senior Prom and his misadventures with two other '87 graduates, Theo Chalogianis and Scott Wallach.

After that unforgettable Talent Show, fans praised and idolized The Dave Poelke Band. The awesome foursome served as a backup band on a bumber of occasions. At Swing-Out, Paletz, Alkazian and Szymanski put Mr. Poelke's photocopied face on their caps. Catalyst writer Scott Hale predicted that Paletz would lead the band to greater success--"They even dedicate one concert to a hair transplant for Mr. Poelke."

And as the great rock groups of all time do (just ask The Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, etc.), they came back one more time, to "Mippy" Paletz's house, for its final gig at his June 24, 1990 graduation party. When Paletz announced this party, he didn't mention anything about a band playing. So, their appearance surprised many of the guests, including HHS band instructor Mr. Mark Phillips. But all the makings for the last bash were there--even an opening act.

Yes, indeed, concertgoers got to enjoy a little "calm before the storm": Todd Rope, acoustical guitarist. Szymanski introduced him to the spectators. Rope sang a few oldies, starting with "Looking Out My Back Door" by Creedence Clearwater Revival and "Rocky Raccoon" by the Beatles, delivering the melodies from his trusty six-string. Paletz's father Robert began filming a homemade concert video. It is noted that one spectator yelled, "I WANT MY ROPE TV!" In the meantime, the main event was getting set up.

After Rope finished his set with "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by the Tokens, the band finished fine-tuning their instruments. Szymanski tuned up with bits and pieces of famous guitar solos (like Eddie Van Halen's legendary "Eruption"). The amplifiers were set, as were Paletz's old, Duct-Taped drums. Then, the Olde Franklin Towne subdivision would experience a totally different eruption.

One of the last songs The Dave Poelke Band ever performed was "Talk Dirty to Me," by Poison. They once again established themselves among the greatest of high school bands. Their music was raw and loud, like a rock concert should be--not too slick or polished.

The band officially disbanded when Alkazian and Szymanski packed up their equipment around 6:00 p.m. But it will never vanish from the menagerie of the Class of 1990's memories.

Szymanski and Alkazian joined a band called Mr. Slate, named after the Flintstones cartoon character. Blatt formed a rock-jazz (a.k.a. fusion) oriented band while at the University of Michigan. Paletz continued to make good use of his drumming talents well into the '90s as a member of the University of Michigan Marching Band. He joked that one day, he may represent Mr. Slate as their lawyer.

Mr. Boluch Knows Calculus

Math teacher motivates students to succeed on AP Calculus exam

Perhaps one could measure the success of Mr. Walt Boluch's 1989-90 Advanced Placement Math classes by noting that that previous year's A.P.M. 12 class had only one student score a 5 (on a scale from 1 for unqualified to 5 for extremely well-qualified) on the AP Calculus AB exam. Perhaps the Class of 1990 had more talented math students, but it certainly took a great teacher to bring out that talent.

When Mrs. Sue Schultz taught A.P.M. 12 in 1988-89, only one student scored a 5: Todd Rope. Mr. Boluch's A.P.M. 12 classes yielded five 5's: Jared Goldapper, Lena Larsson, Alex Nemirovsky, Mark Rabinowitz and Victor Varsanyi ('91). And this, despite the fact that Mr. Boluch had not taught Calculus in roughly a decade.

Goldapper's success should have been no surprise. Throughout Mr. Boluch's precalculus and calculus classes, he often had higher scores on tests than any other student. But he said he may have had a little divine intervention. He recalled a free-response problem in which he needed to find the area of a region formed by two curves and a line. He had difficulty finding out where the curves intersected, and when he finally did, he raised his arms and said, "Thank G-d!"

He also led an effort to make a plaque to recognize Mr. Boluch for his great work in teaching A.P.M. 12 in 1989-90: The "1990 M.V.T AWARD, MOST VALUABLE TEACHER, WALT BOLUCH: FOR YOUR MOTIVATION AND DEDICATION IN TEACHING US CALCULUS." Twelve A.P.M. 12 students each contributed $3 to help fund the plaque. They were Goldapper, Jenny Church, Mill Coleman, Jeffrey Hong, Shawna Knight, Larsson, Jason McCombs, Shannon McCormick, Craig Pattinson, Rabinowitz, Ed Serzo and Varsanyi.

Goldapper stated, "We didn't give (Mr. Boluch) the plaque in order to obtain glory for ourselves. We gave him the plaque in order to show him our appreciation and make him feel good about himself."

Even though Larsson and Nemirovsky didn't set the curve as often as Goldapper on regular A.P.M. 12 material, they never ran into any great difficulties. Both of them had the ability to work hard, and on the AP Calculus exam, they showed it. In the summer of 1990, Larsson returned to her native Sweden. It was unfortunate that neither the University of Michigan nor the Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepted her applications.

Rabinowitz became the only student in Mr. Boluch's classes to accomplish both of these feats: 1) getting a 5 on the Calculus AB exam and 2) reaching Part II of the Michigan Math Prize Competition. Only two other 1990 graduates, Todd Rope and Jim Cannon, can say that; both had been further advanced in their math studies than Rabinowitz.

Plagued by small mistakes in exams throughout 1989-90, Varsanyi got a lot of help from Mr. Boluch's constant review and re-review of various calculus problems (mainly from copies of the 1988, 1985, 1973 and 1969 AP Exams). He was the only junior in A.P.M. 12.

Mr. Boluch took over teaching A.P.M. 12 in 1989, but had not taught that course in roughly a decade. To get prepared, in the summer of 1989, he re-read the book in preparation for the two classes he would teach that fall.

In 1991, his classes were even more successful. That year, fifteen students scored a 5, along with three 4's and three 3's. Subsequent years yielded even greater success. It became rare for an A.P.M. 12 student under Mr. Boluch not to take the AP Calculus exam.

Mr. Boluch continued to teach A.P.M. 12 until his retirement in 1997.

The Vocabulary Game Dictionary

Learn (or re-learn) some sophisticated vocabulary words.

During the 1989-90 school year, Mrs. Laura Sparrow put her A.P. Senior English class' vocabulary knowledge to the test in an annual contest called "The Vocabulary Game." This game was simple by design: She would put write a few words on the chalkboard. If any of her students had at least an idea of what the word meant, the class got a point. If not, Mrs. Sparrow got a point. No point was awarded to either side if the class only had a vague or unclear idea of what the word meant.

In all, 87 words were up for grabs. Mrs. Sparrow scored on 42, her students scored 42, with three not awarded to either side.

Those who had A.P. Senior English may be re-learning some of these words. Others may well be learning them for the very first time, right here, in the Vocabulary Game Dictionary.

After each word in our dictionary, the people who scored on the words are shown in parentheses. Phonetic pronunciations follow, with stressed syllables in capital letters. Parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) are given, followed, of course, by definitions.

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abstruse (Matt Paletz): ab-STROOS. adj. Hard to understand, unfathomable.

ancillary (Dana Apfelblat/Paul Levine/Todd Rope): AN-suh-LAYR-ee. adj. 1. Helping in a subsidiary way. 2. Subordinate.

antipodes (Paletz): an-TIP-uh-DEEZ. n. pl. Places on Earth which are diametrically opposite each other (such as the United States and Australia).

argot (Mrs. Sparrow): AR-goh. n. The jargon or slang of a particular class or group, especially of criminals.

besotted (Jodi Ping): buh-SOT-id. adj. 1. Mentally stupefied, especially from drugs or alcohol. 2. Silly, foolish. 3. Infatuated.

bibliomania (Rope): BIB-lee-oh-MAY-nee-uh. n. An excessive craving for books.

blandishments (Erica Watnick): BLAN-dish-ments. n. pl. Flattering compliments or actions.

bucolic (Mrs. Sparrow): byoo-KAHL-ik. adj. Characteristic of country life.

bumptious (Levine): BUMP-shus. adj. Conceited.

caveat (UNAWARDED): KAV-ee-OT or KOV-ee-OT. n. A warning (e.g. "Caveat emptor," which means "Let the buyer beware.")

cenotaph (Mrs. Sparrow): SEN-uh-TAF. n. A monument dedicated to people buried elsewhere.

chalice (Paletz): CHAL-iss. n. A large, goblet-like cup.

chorister (Apfelblat): KOR-iss-tur. n. A choir member.

chthonic (Mrs. Sparrow): ch-THON-ik. adj. Relating to gods and spirits of the underworld.

comestibles (Apfelblat): kuh-MES-tuh-bulz. n. Food.

concupiscence (Apfelblat): kon-KYOO-pih-sunse. n. Intense lust.

conflagration (Mark Rabinowitz): KON-fluh-GRAY-shun. n. A quickly spreading, destructive fire.

contumacious (Rope): KON-tuh-MAY-shus. adj. Disobedient, insubordinate.

crenellated (Mrs. Sparrow): KREN-uh-LAY-tid. adj. Having stone walls with gaps at intervals along the edges of roofs or balconies, intended for soldiers to fire from (or else for decoration).

doughty (Mrs. Sparrow): DOH-tee. adj. Valiant, strong-hearted.

effluvium (Dan Fulga/Tim Story): ih-FLOO-vee-um. n. An outflow of a gas, especially a foul or harmful one.

effulgent (Mrs. Sparrow): ih-FUL-jent. adj. Bright, radiant.

eleemosynary (Mrs. Sparrow): el-ih-MOS-uh-NA-ree. adj. Supported by or dispensing charity.

(Yes, that is two e's between the "el" and the "mos"--it's not a typo.)

embrasure (Rope): em-BRAY-zhure. n. 1. An opening in a wall for a door or window, with sides slanted so that the inside is wider than the outside, or vice-versa. 2. A similar opening for a gun, widening toward the outside.

empyrean (Levine/Sonja Magdevski): em-PEER-ee-un or em-puh-REE-un. n. 1. The highest heaven (a.k.a. God's estate). 2. The visible heavens. adj. 1. Of or relating to the heavens.

epistolary (Jim Cannon): uh-PIS-tuh-LAYR-ee. adj. Of, contained in, or suitable for letters.

ersatz (Rabinowitz): AYR-sotz. adj. Not genuine, fake. n. An inferior substitute.

estivate (Mrs. Sparrow): ES-tuh-VATE. v. 1. (of people) To seclude oneself, withdraw. 2. (of animals) To spend the summer in an inactive state.

euphonious (Paletz): yoo-FOH-nee-us. adj. Pleasant sounding.

fecund (Mrs. Sparrow): FEE-kund or FEK-und. adj. Fertile.

fulminate (Fulga): FUL-muh-nayt. v. To protest loudly and bitterly.

fustian (Mrs. Sparrow): FUS-chun. n. 1. A thick, twilled cotton fabric with a short nap. 2. Pretentious or pompous language. adj. 1. Made of the fabric described above. 2. Speaking pompously.

gargantuan (Cannon): gar-GAN-choo-un. adj. Gigantic, huge.

(After Rabelais' satire, Gargantua and Pantagruel. Gargantua, the hero, was a giant king noted for enormous physical and intellectual appetites.)

glazier (Apfelblat): GLAY-zhure. n. A person who fits glass in windows, mirrors, etc.

gobbet (Levine): GOB-it. n. 1. An extract of text set for translation or comment. 2. A piece or chunk, especially of raw meat.

hackney (Mrs. Sparrow): HAK-nee. n. A vehicle for hire, such as a coach or carriage. v. 1. To make trite or banal through overuse. 2. To hire (a vehicle).

harbinger (Rabinowitz): HAR-bin-jur. n. A person, event or thing which announces the approach of another, a forerunner.

harrow (Mrs. Sparrow): HAYR-oh. n. A frame with metal teeth or discs for breaking up lumps of earth. v. 1. To draw a harrow over. 2. To distress greatly

(NOTE: When Mrs. Sparrow put this word on the board, she would not accept this last definition--she was expecting the first one).

hesperian (Mrs. Sparrow): hes-PEER-ee-un. adj. Of or pertaining to the west.

imprimatur (UNAWARDED): IM-prih-MA-tur. n. 1. official license to print, especially works sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church. 2. Permission, approval.

impugn (Apfelblat/Paletz): im-PYOON. v. To express the doubts about the truth or honesty of, to try to discredit.

internecine (Levine): IN-tur-NES-EEN. adj. 1. Mutually destructive. 2. Of a struggle within a nation, organization, group, etc.

invigilate (Mrs. Sparrow): in-VIJ-uh-layt. v. To supervise examinees.

limnology (Mrs. Sparrow): lim-NAHL-uh-jee. n. The study of lakes, ponds and streams.

loggia (Rabinowitz): LOH-zhuh. n. 1. An open-sided gallery or arcade along the front or side of a building. 2. An open balcony in a theater.

lugubrious (Mrs. Sparrow): luh-GOO-bree-us. adj. Dismal, mournful.

marginalia (Mrs. Sparrow): MAR-juh-NAY-lee-uh. n. pl. Marginal notes--your English teachers probably wrote some while grading your papers!

masticate (Paletz): MAS-tuh-KAYT. v. To chew.

mendacious (Mrs. Sparrow): men-DAY-shus. adj. Untruthful, telling lies.

meretricious (Mrs. Sparrow): MEHR-uh-TRISH-us. adj. Showily attractive but cheap or insincere.

minion (Cannon): MIN-yun. n. (used only in a contemptuous sense) A subordinate assistant.

minutiae (Apfelblat): mih-NOO-she-AY. n. pl. Small details, trivialities.

mullion (Mrs. Sparrow): MUL-yun. n. An upright strip between the panes of a tall window.

obdurate (Levine): OB-dur-it. adj. Stubborn and unyielding.

oenology (Mrs. Sparrow): ee-NAHL-uh-jee. n. The study of wines.

paean (Mrs. Sparrow): PEE-un. n. A song of praise or triumph.

panegyric (Mrs. Sparrow): PAN-uh-JEER-ik. n. A speech or written work praising a person or thing.

parsimonious (Mrs. Sparrow): PAR-suh-MOH-nee-us. adj. Stingy, sparingly using resources.

pejorative (Mrs. Sparrow): pih-JOR-uh-tiv. adj. Insulting, derogatory.

pellucid (Amy Gallagher): puh-LOO-sid. adj. Very clear.

penultimate (Mrs. Sparrow): pih-NUL-tuh-mit. adj. Next to last.

peradventure (Cannon): PUR-ud-VEN-chur. adv. (old use) Perchance, by chance, perhaps.

peregination (Gallagher): PAYR-uh-grih-NAY-shun. n. Traveling, a journey.

plenipotentiary (Kathy White): PLEN-ih-puh-TEN-sher-ee. n. An envoy with full powers to take action or make decisions on behalf of the government that he/she represents.

polemicist (Mrs. Sparrow): poh-LEM-uh-sist. n. A person skilled in the practice of argumentation.

pontificate (Mrs. Sparrow): pon-TIF-ih-kayt. v. To speak in a pompous way.

prate (Levine): prayt. v. To talk too much.

pulchriture (Mrs. Sparrow): PUL-krih-TOOD. n. Physical beauty, especially referring to females.

pusillanimous (Mrs. Sparrow): PYOO-suh-LAN-uh-mus. adj. Timid, cowardly.

quisling (Lena Larsson): KWIZ-leeng. n. A traitor, especially one who supports an enemy occupying his/her country. (After Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian leader who betrayed his country to the Nazis in World War II.)

recidivist (Mrs. Sparrow): rih-SID-uh-vist. n. A criminal repeat offender, a person whose criminal tendencies seem uncurable.

recursive (UNAWARDED): ree-KUR-siv. adj. Self-repeating.

reprobate (Levine): REP-ruh-BAYT. n. An immoral or unprincipled person. adj. immoral or unprincipled.

salubrious (Mrs. Sparrow): suh-LOO-bree-us. adj. Health-giving.

schism (Rabinowitz): SKIZ-um. n. A split within a group over differences in opinion, especially in religious groups.

scintilla (Mrs. Sparrow): sin-TIL-uh. n. A trace, an iota, as in "not a scintilla of evidence."

sedulous (Mrs. Sparrow): SED-juh-lus. adj. Diligent and persevering.

shibboleth (Mrs. Sparrow): SHIB-uh-lith. n. 1. A word, principle, behavior or opinion, the use of or inablility to use which reveals one's party, nationality, religion, etc. 2. An old slogan or principle which is still considered essential by some members of a party.

sophistry (Rope): SOF-is-tree. n. Clever and subtle but perhaps misleading reasoning.

stentorian (Mrs. Sparrow): sten-TOR-ee-un. adj. (of a voice) Extremely loud.

supernumerary (Mrs. Sparrow): SOO-pur-NOO-muh-RAYR-ee. adj. In excess of the standard number, extra. n. 1. An extra person or thing. 2. An actor who appears on stage but does not speak.

sybarite (Mrs. Sparrow): SIB-uh-rite. n. A person who is excessively fond of comfort and luxury.

termagant (Mrs. Sparrow): TUR-muh-gunt. n. A violent, overbearing woman.

venal (Jenny Church): VEE-nul. adj. 1. Able to be bribed. 2. Influenced by bribery.

venery (Ping/Rope): VEN-uh-ree. n. (all old use) 1a. Indulgence in or the pursuit of sexual activity. 1b. Sexual intercourse. 2. The act, art or sport of hunting.

vitriolic (Mrs. Sparrow): VIH-tree-AHL-ik. adj. 1. (of chemical substances) Of, similar to, or derived from sulfuric acid or a sulfate. 2. (of comments or criticism) Savagely hostile.

vituperation (Mrs. Sparrow): vih-TOO-puh-RAY-shun. n. Use of abusive language.

(Editor's note: This article was very nearly published in 1990 as part of Green & Gold Digest; however, I figured that if I published it then, and the 1989-90 Vocabulary Game continued after that G&G's publication, then G&G's readers would have been stuck with an incomplete Dictionary. For that reason, I pushed it back to the Reunion Issue.)

G&G News Briefs

A series of brief stories from 1990 and 1991, featuring members of the Class of 1990

FARMINGTON HILLS (May 29, 1990) - A.P. English 12 had one last assignment: The class took on the roles of characters from and authors of the written works studied during the past year. In these roles, they would discuss various current issues in a "Meeting of the Minds."

Mrs. Laura Sparrow adapted this idea from a feature that appeared on "The Steve Allen Show" during the 1950's, in which Allen hosted dinners for famous people of the past. Likewise, each of five groups had a host and several literary characters (such as Beowulf, Lysistrata and Hamlet) and/or authors (Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare).

FARMINGTON HILLS (June 14-15, 1990) - Harrison's graduation night was also the night of Game 5 of the 1990 NBA Finals. The defending NBA Champion Detroit Pistons were out to beat the Portland Trail Blazers to clinch their second NBA title; the host Blazers were trying to come back from a three-games-to-one deficit. Portland had a 90-83 lead late in the game. Meanwhile, many of Harrison's newest grads were busy chomping on pizza, vanilla soft ice cream, popcorn and subs; playing casino-style games; jumping around in the inflatable Moonwalk and dunking Coach Sutter in the Dunk Tank. Few were watching the game.

Those who were hoping the Pistons would lose (so they could return home and clinch the NBA title at the Palace of Auburn Hills) were in shock when they learned that Detroit pulled out the final victory, 92-90, thanks to Vinnie "Microwave" Johnson's jump shot with 0.7 seconds left.

FARMINGTON HILLS (June 1990) - Carl Johnson livened up at least a couple of local graduation parties with his volleyball set. He brought it to the graduation parties of Matt Paletz (June 24) and Dana Apfelblat (June 30). At the first one, a volleyball game competed for attention with the Dave Poelke Band's final performance. The volleyball set endured some abuse, such as holes in the net and a few collapses.

FARMINGTON (July 11, 1990) - Jenny Fitzgerald was one of two "Miss Congenials" at the 1990 Miss Farmington-Farmington Hills pageant. According to the Farmington Observer, it was the first time in pageant history that two contestants shared such an award.

Fitzgerald was 1989's Homecoming Queen and was a Homecoming Court member in 1988. Sponsored by Metrobank of Farmington, she was the only 1990 HHS graduate in the pageant.

According to a November 1989 Catalyst report, Fitzgerald "wanted to do it for the experience and to see how well I could do." She also mentioned her experience from the dance and fashion shows she did for her dance classes.

The pageant was held at Vladimir's Restaurant on Grand River, the site of the Class of 1990's ten year reunion.

FARMINGTON HILLS (July 25, 1990)- Jim Cannon got a big haircut before going off to Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. During his senior year at HHS, he let his hair grow long, because it was his last opportunity to do so. As part of a strict dress code, BYU does not allow its male students to have long hair.

Cannon had to go on a two-year mission while at BYU. He envied his older brother Sam ('88) in one respect: Sam had his mission in Tahiti, mainly because he took French (which is spoken in Tahiti) at Harrison High, whereas Jim took Spanish. "I'm afraid I'll have to go off to Panama or Colombia or some other drug country for my mission," Jim said. Jim began his mission in Brazil (where the predominant language is Portuguese) in 1992.

FARMINGTON HILLS (October 12, 1990) - "The life of a frog. That's the life for me." -Bart Simpson, in the episode of "The Simpsons" in which Bart blew up the school toilets with a cherry bomb and got deported to France (The Crepes of Wrath, April 15, 1990).

Madame Pierette (Orlich) Simpson, Harrison's top French teacher, loves frogs. A showcase in her classroom, room 341, was filled with various toy frogs.

In late 1988, she received a Baby Kermit doll as a Christmas present, but around February of 1990, it was missing. It would not be replaced for eight months.

In May 1990, Madame had been preparing three A.P. French IV students for the AP French Exam. While preparing for the oral response part of the exam, Madame asked one, Mark Rabinowitz, what he would do if he had a Mercedes.

"I didn't have a car at the time, so I thought of what I would do if I had a car at all. So I said, 'Si j'avais un Mercedes, j'irais aux... garage sales,'" recalls Rabinowitz. (Translation: 'If I had a Mercedes, I would go to garage sales.')

In June, he found a Baby Kermit at--you guessed it--a garage sale! (No, he wasn't driving a Mercedes.) He gave it on October 12 to Madame during a visit to Harrison High. She promptly named it "Louis," after the French name that Rabinowitz adopted when he began taking French at Harrison in 1986. Madame married Mr. Simpson (not Homer, not Bart, definitely not O.J., maybe Orlando?) in December 1990.

By the way, Rabo, French for garage sale is braderie.

MEADVILLE, PA (December 8, 1990): The Hawk football team didn't threepeat in 1990, but Jenny Church can say that she witnessed a football championship at her school for three years in a row. After graduating from HHS, Church went to Allegheny College. Allegheny's Gators won the NCAA Division III national football title, defeating Lycoming, 21-14 in overtime. Church, at that time, was a copy editor for The Campus, Allegheny College's newspaper.

EAST LANSING, MI (April 27, 1991): While all eyes were on the quarterback battle involving Mill "The Thrill" Coleman (more about him here), one of his Harrison football teammates, Joe George, also debuted in the Green-White scrimmage--as a cheerleader. He made the 9-man, 12-woman squad earlier in the year. At 5'11" and 185 lb., George played running back and defensive end for the Hawks, but he would have had to "bulk up" (gain additional weight and strength) to play either position in college, and he decided against that.

ANN ARBOR, MI (September 1991): Seven 1990 Harrison graduates had a reunion of sorts when they took the same class at the University of Michigan in the fall of 1991. G&G believes it to be the record for most HHS 1990 graduates enrolled in a college course in the same semester (at least until eight or more people from our Class of 1990 can prove they took the same course at the same time somewhere else, anyway--Ed.).

They were Dana Apfelblat, Lori Fox, Shannon McCormick, Matt Paletz, Mark Rabinowitz, Debbie Stein, and Rebecca Stern. The class in question was Religion 201, an in-depth course that covered and compared four religions: the religion of the ancient Israelites, followed by Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

A Spartan's Adaptation

G&G looks back on 1991, the most pivotal season in Mill Coleman's years at Michigan State

Mill Coleman's high school football years were the stuff of legend. "Mill the Thrill" was the first sophomore to start at quarterback for Harrison High. He led the Hawks to three straight state Class B finals, including back-to-back championships (1988 and 1989). He set numerous state high school passing records, such as yards (7,464) and touchdowns (77). Detroit Free Press prep reporter Mick McCabe selected him for the "All-Metro", "All-State", and "All-Decade" teams. He was listed among the Free Press' "Best of the Midwest" and The Detroit News' "Blue Chips (top Michigan college-bound players)".

Coleman's legend grew well beyond the city limits of Farmington Hills. The Free Press annually held a poll for "Michigan's Best" outstanding sportsman of the year. He finished 7th in both 1988 and 1989. In 1988, he even beat out the hero of that year's World Series, former Tiger Kirk Gibson.

In February 1990, he announced his decision to play football for Michigan State University. At the time, he was expected to eventually become the Spartans' starting quarterback, but a year later, circumstances changed and he had to adapt to the changes. Now, G&G looks back on Mill Coleman's 1991 college football season.

SPRING/SUMMER 1991

In the previous season (1990), senior Dan Enos was the starter at quarterback. As a result, Mill Coleman did not play that season, which meant he would be eligible to play for a fifth season.

Pre-season rigors begin with the April 27, 1991 Green-White scrimmage. Here, half of the team faces the other half. All that matters is looking good in the coaches' eyes.

Coleman competes against three other quarterbacks: Junior Bret Johnson, a transfer from UCLA; junior John Gieselman (Birmingham Brother Rice) and redshirt sophomore Jim Miller (Waterford Kettering).

Coleman, playing for the Green, completes 4 of 8 passes for 56 yards, plus a 16-yard-run. The Green lowers the boom on the White, 22-10.

It seems like Coleman at least in contention to become the new starter at QB. But there's one big issue: MSU has switched to an offense better suited to Johnson than to Coleman.

The switch began when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers hired away offensive coordinator Morris Watts in March 1991. Watts played a big part in recruiting Coleman. Also, as Millard Coleman Sr. put it, under Watts, MSU used "a carbon copy of the Harrison offense." The offense would not be the same without Watts, who had been at MSU since 1986.

Between Watts' departure and Johnson's arrival, Coleman Sr. is concerned. (You may remember that his promotion at State Farm Insurance led the Colemans to move from Albion to Farmington Hills.) Now a regional manager for State Farm, the elder Coleman tries to avoid involvement in the MSU coaches' decisions, but he wants to see Perles take better advantage of Mill's skill set. The plays the MSU coaches use in the Green-White scrimmage are better suited for traditional drop-back QBs like Johnson; Mill, on the other hand, excels at rolling out of the pocket, stretching the defense and keeping that defense guessing with his combined running and passing ability.

Coleman Sr. sees a worst-case scenario--Johnson starting in '91 and '92, Miller taking the reins in '93, and Coleman finally starting in '94. "If you look at the history of MSU quarterbacks--and this is something I admire in George--when he selects a quarterback he sticks with that quarterback through good and bad," he said. Indeed, in Perles' previous eight seasons as MSU head coach, he had primarily used only three signal-callers: Enos (1989-90), Bobby McAllister (1986-88) and Dave Yarema (1983-85).

Coleman's situation doesn't improve at all over the summer. He is a longshot when Perles announces that he will name his starting quarterback on the September 8 "George Perles Show."

When that weekend rolls around, Perles names Bret Johnson as his starter. Jim Miller will back him up, followed by Coleman.

SEPTEMBER 1991: A ROUGH START

In the final days before facing the Central Michigan Chippewas, MSU's #2 wide receiver, Brian Howard, suffers a knee injury that puts him out for the season--and opens a new door for Coleman. Coleman works out at wide receiver and on special teams (returning kickoffs).

The CMU game is a disaster. The Spartans, ranked 18th in the nation, play as though they were second- or third-string CMU players. Miller replaces Johnson in the second half. The Chippewas win, 20-3, in a major upset, after which former Michigan Wolverines coach Bo Schembechler, now a college football analyst for ABC Sports, chides MSU's athletic department for ever scheduling the game. Coleman's Spartan debut is anything but memorable. He plays a few downs at wide receiver, with no receptions.

The Notre Dame game is even worse. Coming off a loss to Michigan, the Fighting Irish rout the Spartans, 49-10. Once again, Johnson only plays the first half. The MSU defense is a sieve. Coleman finally gets some action in the 4th quarter, returning a kickoff 14 yards, but at that point, the game is already far out of reach.

Next up is Rutgers. Johnson doesn't even last through the first half. But the real surprise comes when Miller suffers a concussion. Thriller time? No! Johnson goes back in, and nothing good happens. An 8-yard rush on a double reverse and a 24-yard reception are all Coleman gets. Ultimately, Mr. Magoo's alma mater scores a last-minute touchdown to nip MSU, 14-7. Perles nonchalantly says of Coleman, "He looked good where he was today." And he rises higher on the wide receiver depth chart.

OCTOBER 1991: RISING AT RECEIVER

Remember that bit about Perles sticking with his quarterbacks? Forget it. Perles finally wises up and starts Miller against Indiana. But the Spartan offense bogs down again. The Hoosiers run away, 31-0. Coleman finally lines up behind center, but only twice, running the ball himself both times for 5 yards.

On the next day's "George Perles Show," the host asks about the few bright spots in these 4 awful games, first bringing up Coleman. Perles responds: "He can catch the ball, he runs reverses, he returns kickoffs... We're looking for some spots where he can succeed because he'll be a main player on the team for years to come."

The following Saturday, Coleman faces the team that spurned him, the Michigan Wolverines. The question is not who will win, and U-M makes sure of that, scoring three touchdowns before MSU gets on the board.

With the Wolverines up, 28-7, in the third quarter, the Spartans are on the U-M 10-yard-line. Now Coleman's first shining moment for MSU would come. The call by WXYT Spartan football announcer Russ Small:

"In motion to the left goes Mill Coleman. Rolling to the left, Jim Miller has backside pressure, but he gets the ball to COLEMAN!"

Coleman sees Wolverines closing in. He dives for the orange pylon on the near left corner of the end zone.

"HE DIVES . . . "

"AND . . . "

"No indication yet."

On the artificial turf of Spartan Stadium, diving is a act born from desperation. Desperation that built up from a season on the bench, unfavorable offseason circumstances, and an 0-4 start in which MSU scored just 20 points. The officials had to signal "touchdown" for Coleman and the Spartans. After much deliberation, they finally do.

Coleman in action against Michigan. #22 for the Wolverines is future Pro Bowl CB Ty Law.

Coleman also throws and completes his first pass in this game. With Michigan leading for good, 38-14, in the 3rd quarter, Coleman gets the ball on a reverse play and throws it 21 yards to Courtney Hawkins.

Coleman gets 80 all-purpose yards, more than he got in the first four games combined. Perhaps not coincidentally, MSU scores more points than in their first four games combined. But the Wolverines keep MSU winless, 45-28.

Things have gotten better each week for Coleman thus far. He debuted against CMU, returned his first kickoff against Notre Dame, caught his first pass against Rutgers, lined up behind center against Indiana, and now scores his first touchdown and completes his first pass against U-M. But Coleman wants to win more than attain any more firsts.

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1991:

Against the Minnesota Golden Gophers, the Spartans finally put one in the "W" column, 20-12. But from there, they lose 3 of the last 5, including a pitiful loss to Northwestern.

Coleman has played in all 11 games, finishing the season with 16 receptions, 156 yards and a touchdown. Bret Johnson can't say that--he only played in 3 games. For 1992, Mill the Thrill can become a starting wide receiver (starting WR Courtney Hawkins will turn pro) or compete for the starting QB position. Coleman's will to contribute to the Spartans--in any capacity--has overcome whatever frustration he had of not being their starting quarterback.

AFTER 1991

In March 1992, Morris Watts returned as MSU's offensive coordinator and assistant head coach. Watts left the Tampa Bay Bucs because they rearranged their coaching staff with the hiring of new head coach Sam Wyche. Watts' return was expected to boost Coleman's stock, especially where the possibility of playing quarterback for the Spartans was concered. Watts certainly agreed: "The most foolish thing you can do is keep him off the field."

For the 1992 season, starter Jim Miller and Coleman cut a deal. Coleman could play quarterback in short-yardage and goal-line situations. The rest of the time, Miller would be the passer and Coleman would the receiver. Miller added, "I told him I'm going to get him the ball so he can put moves on people and get us down the field."

As a starter at wide receiver, Coleman had 586 receiving yards and 3 touchdowns on 37 receptions. He added 2 more touchdowns as a runner, one of which was on a memorable fake field goal attempt against Indiana. With the Spartans trailing the Hoosiers, 21-7, with less than a minute left in the first half, MSU put in Coleman as the placeholder instead of backup QB John Gieselman. Coleman took the snap and ran with it for the score, and Michigan State roared back in the second half to take back the Old Brass Spitoon, 42-31. He was named the team's Most Valuable Player at the conclusion of the 1992 season.

Coleman running for a TD on a fake field goal against Indiana in 1992.

Coleman never did become the regular starting quarterback for Michigan State--he played flanker the vast majority of the time, and didn't throw a single touchdown pass--but he did see action at quarterback in 1992 when Jim Miller and John Gieselman got hurt. Above all, he was willing to adapt to changes in his situation and that willingness yielded great benefits. In four seasons with MSU, Coleman had 126 receptions for 1,813 yards and 8 touchdowns, and he might have been selected in the 1995 NFL Draft were it not for a knee injury he suffered in 1994.

Coleman rolling out to pass... or was this an option play?

After leaving MSU, he tried out with the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears as a receiver and kick returner, but wound up on the practice squad for each team. The only time he was a player on the active roster of a professional football was as a wide receiver with the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes in 1997-98. In 1998, he suffered a broken shoulder on a kickoff return and that injury ended his football playing career. (Mike Teachman, HHS math teacher and basketball coach, recalled that the injury happened because on the previous play, Coleman had returned a kickoff for a touchdown, but it was nullified by a Montreal penalty, meaning the kickoff had to be done over.)

(Editor's note 3-31-2010: In November 2000, at our ten-year reunion, I had asked Mill if he had any interest in trying out for the XFL, the new professional football league being started up by World Wrestling Entertainment czar Vince McMahon and NBC. He said he did not. He now owns and runs a football school, Mill Coleman Football Fundamentals, which is located in Farmington Hills.)

NOTE: Articles from the Detroit Free Press, Detroit News and Farmington Observer contributed to this retrospective. The Free Press articles were written by Perry A. Farrell and Drew Sharp. The Detroit News articles were written by Terry Cabell and George Cantor. The Farmington Observer articles were written by Dan O'Meara and Steve Kowalski.

From Davis to Hale

How black and silver came to be the Class of 1990's colors

Once upon a time, black and silver were an uncommon color combination. Sports teams almost always had white in their uniforms, and few used silver. And Anytown High's Class of 1957 picking black and silver for its class colors was less likely than, say, Don Knotts being cast to play Hamlet.

Then came the Oakland Raiders. They were one of the eight teams in the new American Football League in 1960. They were the first team in professional sports history to use black and silver in its uniforms. As the Raiders became winners--they had 16 straight winning seasons from 1965 to 1980, during which time they won their first two Super Bowls--new generations would pick up on their rough play and rebellious image.

In 1984, two years after they moved to Los Angeles, the Raiders' popularity shot up following their 38-9 rout of the heavily-favored Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII. Against the Raiders, the Redskins looked like a bunch of rookies. Mere mortals everywhere saw black and silver as colors of invincibility.

A few years later, during the 1987-88 NBA season, Raiders owner Al Davis sent black-and-silver Raiders sweaters and T-shirts to the Detroit Pistons as a tribute to their tough, physical basketball play (notably that of center Bill Laimbeer and power forward Rick Mahorn). During this time, the Pistons were well on their way to establishing themselves as the "Motor City Bad Boys."

In 1988, after the Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings made the shocker of a trade that sent Wayne Gretzky to the Kings, Kings owner Bruce McNall unveiled new black and silver uniforms to replace the old purple and gold ones. Like the Raiders, the Kings' new logo included a crest. McNall sent out a loud and clear message: We didn't just get this great player. We also have a new attitude.

As the Pistons and Kings rose to higher ground in 1988-89, black and silver gained more popularity. But that wasn't the reason why they became the Class of 1990's colors.

In the fall of 1989, in Farmington Hills, Michigan, an Intramural Basketball Association team named the Wolf Pac began to undergo a transform of its own. The heart of that team--captain Craig Schneider, John LaBute and Ben Diclemente--got back together to form the next IBA team. But then their team received a talent windfall.

When the Harrison Hawks built the 1989-90 varsity basketball team, they left out one Scott Hale. "Sir Halestorm" had been on the '88-89 squad, but didn't make the cut in '89-90 due to the arrival of new and better talent. He would make sure that he got the last laugh.

Just as Gretzky helped revitalize the Kings, so did Hale give new life to the old Wolf Pac, who had narrowly missed the IBA playoffs in 1988. They were renamed the Raiders. And just as the Pistons got Raiders T-shirts, so did the IBA Raiders. Hale's--with the #25 on the back--boldly proclaimed, "AND I... GOT CUT."

These Raiders were unstoppable. In going 9-0, they dealt Tiny's Crew II their only losses, including the IBA title game.

A few months later, Hale joined with Tim Story and Brian Ellison to campaign for black and silver as the official colors of the Class of 1990. All three were, at that time, sports writers for the Catalyst. On the day of the voting, they told fellow seniors right and left to vote for black and silver. The campaign succeeded.

"A lot of people were upset with the colors and couldn't believe our class had actually picked something so untraditional," Story said.

Nevertheless, 1990 showed further proof that black and silver were actually a very timely choice of class colors. When the National Football League's Atlanta Falcons hired Jerry Glanville as their new head coach, they changed their helmets and home jerseys from red to black. (Glanville had always worn black when he coached his previous team, the Houston Oilers. Also, silver had already been part of the Falcons' color scheme.) On September 30, the Chicago White Sox unveiled their new uniforms, where black and silver figured prominently, in their final game at old Comiskey Park; their previous uniforms were red, white and blue.

All black and silver sports apparel sold like mad. According to a research study cited in the June 9, 1992 Detroit Free Press, the Raiders were #1 in football team apparel sales. In baseball, the White Sox topped the list. The Colorado Rockies, whose colors were purple, black and silver, were ninth, which was amazing when you consider that they hadn't even played a single game, as they were a 1993 expansion team. The Los Angeles Kings were hockey's second-best seller, behind the San Jose Sharks. (Although the Sharks had the worst record of the 1991-92 NHL season, and their primary color is teal, black and silver are also prominent in their uniforms.)

The research study also said that teenagers identified with the Raiders because they were seen as rebels, and that rap groups also helped with the surge in the popularity of black and silver.

But in the final analysis, we might have adopted a different set of class colors--turquoise and burgundy, perhaps--if not for the Raiders. Nobody in sports wore black and silver until they did. And those colors became ours at just the right time. From Al Davis of the NFL's Raiders to Scott Hale of the IBA Raiders, the history of black and silver is now indelibly tied to Harrison High School's Class of 1990.

Dismissed as Chance?

G&G looks at mysterious similarities in outcomes between the Harrison Hawks football team and the NBA's Detroit Pistons over the course of five years.

Championships are never decided in advance. There is no way to know what will happen. The possibilities are always endless.

Or are they?

Over a period beginning in the fall of 1986 and ending in the spring of 1991, one could argue that the final outcome of the Detroit Pistons' NBA basketball season was tied to how the famed Harrison Hawk football team did the previous fall.

In the fall of 1986, the Hawks went to the Class B state football semifinal round, but lost to Marysville, 22-6. In what seemed like the most trivial of coincidences, the Pistons also lost in their semifinals the following year. The Boston Celtics beat them in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals, 4 games to 3.

But in 1987-88, the odd coincidences kept on coming.

Harrison earned a rematch against Marysville in the Class B state football semifinals, and avenged their loss the previous year with a 35-20 victory. And in May 1988, the Pistons followed suit, winning their Eastern Conference final rematch with the Celtics, 4 games to 2.

Both teams lost in the final round, however--Grand Rapids Catholic Central stopped the Hawks at the Silverdome, 19-7, for the 1987 Class B state football championship; and the Los Angeles Lakers edged the Pistons, 4 games to 3, in the 1988 NBA Finals.

One should note that the offensive leaders for both teams suffered key injuries at season's end. Harrison QB Mill Coleman suffered a hand injury in that 1987 Dome game. And Pistons point guard Isiah Thomas badly injured his ankle in the crucial sixth game of the '88 NBA Finals.

In 1988-89, the Hawks quickly established dominance in Class B, getting better and better as the fall progressed. More often than not, they outscored their opponents by more than 30 points. The Pistons were hot, too, with winning streaks of 12 and 13 games on the way to the best record in franchise history (63-19). Both teams breezed through the playoffs. Harrison allowed only 16 points over their four playoff games in winning the state championship; the Motor City Bad Boys only lost one game in the NBA playoffs on the way to their first NBA championship.

As in the previous year, both teams got some kind of revenge in a rematch. Westland John Glenn's Rockets had defeated HHS in 1987 to win the Western Lakes Activities Association football title, but 1988 saw the Hawks obliterate the Rockets, 45-7, for that very same title. The 1989 NBA Finals were a rematch as well; perhaps it should have been no surprise to see the Pistons sweep the Lakers in four games.

On to 1989-90. The 1989 Harrison Hawks would go on to win another state title, but this time, the fight was tougher. For starters, they lost a number of valuable players from the 1988 team, like wide receivers Chad Burgess and Bryan Wauldron. Although they went undefeated, the victories weren't so lopsided and the last two games were decided by one point apiece. The state semifinal game against East Grand Rapids took place on a frozen field, and the final score sounded like a baseball game: 3-2. The state final at the Dome was a come-from-behind victory that would come to be known as The Classic Game. HHS overcame a 21-7 deficit against DeWitt to win, 28-27.

And how did this relate to the 1989-90 Pistons? Before their season began, they lost a key starter, power forward Rick Mahorn, to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 1989 expansion draft. They also did not tear through their opponents as they did the year before, and this was especially true in the last two rounds of the playoffs. They needed seven games to knock off the Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference finals, and went into Game 3 of the NBA Finals having lost the home-court advantage to the Portland Trail Blazers. And like the '89 Hawks, they also had to recover from a deficit in their final game--they were down 90-83 in Game 5, but scored the final nine points to finish off Portland. So like the 1989 Hawks, the Pistons' 1990 NBA title was much harder-earned than it had been the year before.

The parallels even appeared in the headlines. After the Hawks beat DeWitt, the Catalyst ran a special issue with the headline, "Repeat is SWEET!" Over 6 months later, the Detroit Free Press front page screamed "SWEET REPEAT" after the Pistons clinched the 1990 NBA title.

So both the Hawks and the Pistons went into 1990-91 with "threepeat" on their mind. Both failed in their bids. Not only that, but they were both eliminated in the semifinal playoff round. Oxford overpowered Harrison, 48-38, in the state football semifinal and the Chicago Bulls swept the Pistons in the NBA Eastern Conference finals.

Alas, like this article, all weird things must come to an end. Harrison won another state title in 1991, and given the previous five years, that pointed to another NBA title for the 1991-92 Pistons. But the aging, oft-injured Pistons lost to the New York Knicks in the first round of the NBA playoffs. That same year, as HHS head coach John Herrington and defensive coordinator Bob Sutter promised that wild horses would not drag them away from "the Prison," Pistons coach Chuck Daly and general manager Jack McCloskey left the Pistons. Daly went on to coach the New Jersey Nets, and Orlando Magic, and McCloskey was the Minnesota Timberwolves' general manager for three years.

Two unrelated sports teams--one in high school football, the other pro basketball--had amazingly similar outcomes over a five-year span. Was it the alignment of the stars? Subliminal mind control by aliens? Perhaps it cannot simply be dismissed as chance.

Final Notes

I hope you have enjoyed reading the Green & Gold Reunion Issue.

This turned out OK after all, considering all the things that didn't go according to plan.

• I had wanted to print this in magazine form in 2000 with the idea of distributing it at that year's reunion; I know some of you would have loved that.
• Back in 1990, I had asked a few dozen friends to consider submitting stories to me for publication in the Reunion Issue (if you're one of those who got a printed G&G in 1990, see page 15)--I think I only got one submission, but that's all right because I was able to come up with enough stories on my own.
• Finally, I published it online in 2000 on a GeoCities web site, but I didn't do a very good job of promoting it, which is why only a handful of you may have seen these articles back then. Sorry, I messed up there. Thank goodness that 10 years later, I have Facebook to make promoting it so much easier.

Thanks to Mike Teachman for correcting an error I had made towards the end of the Mill Coleman piece.  In an earlier version of that article, I mistakenly said that Coleman suffered another knee injury during a kick return for the Montreal Alouettes.  It was a broken shoulder.

Finally, one more time, here are links to my other two G&G creations:

Green & Gold Digest (1990)

Green & Gold Time Capsule (2010)