Sunday late afternoon, the day before football pre-season training opened at Huygens. Enough barbecued chicken, barbequed ribs, garlic mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, and beer were spread out on a table in the Huygens cottage, or so it seemed until Griff and Caydance's Dad, Mac O'Brien, started eating. It had been a long day laying out and testing practice equipment. "In response to your question," Mac said to Caydance, "I have a story."

"So, there I was in 1943, a desk officer in the US Army Quartermaster Corps. I was at Camp Hale in Colorado at an altitude of over 9,000 feet, in a narrow Valley surrounded by mountains and high ridges, where over a thousand buildings had spring up seemingly overnight. I was assessing clothing needs. It was mail call in the barracks when I spotted a familiar face. "Pete" I said, "Pete Lafitte. What the Hell is a Dartmouth Hockey player from French Canadian Vermont doing here?"

"Guess you didn't know that I spent part of my youth near Jay Peak", the soldier responded. While Mac was telling this story, on the radio at the Oakland Coliseum where the A's were playing the Twins, it was the bottom of the 8th. There was a pause in Mac's story when Canseco came to bat with Lansford on base.