Roasting Athletes

Roasting Edinburg Athletes

2005

During a brainstorming session, we tried to figure out how to best present our HS athletics program during the 50th reunion of the EHS Class of 1955.  Often at reunions, stories of the great victories and personal experiences of the athletes are common fodder.  Who can forget the excitement of Carlos Esquivel scoring a couple of touchdowns in the closing minutes of the game to beat arch-enemy McAllen.  Or, the role of Dan Coleman’s broken leg in the seasonal won-lost column.

I had scanned most of the team and individual photos out of our class of ‘55 annual athlete’s section and was showing them to Dorothy Beamsley and Barbara Porter.  The plan was to play the song “We are the Champions” while showing these photos, but somehow “Born to Lose” came out instead.  Dorothy and Barbara laughed so hard they rocked my old motorhome.  “Wow!” I said out loud, “maybe we should do it that way at the reunion.”

Barbara, Dorothy and Win

 

“No way,” Barbara said.  “It would be far too insensitive to our athletes and somebody might be offended.”

But then we remembered that above all, our class athletes were good sports and might find it fun to do some sort of skit after “Born to Lose” was played.  Dan Coleman and his team stepped up to the plate and delivered.  During the reunion, I presented a short discussion about our quality, Edinburg athletes and dedicated this special song to them.  On cue, when “Born to Lose” was played, Dan Coleman, Eddie Marburger, Jimmy Green and Wayne jumped up out of their seats as if to attack me for playing this offensive song.  But, instead of clobbering me -- as I probably deserved -- they continued to the podium, picked up some pom-poms and led the singing of “Here’s to Dear old Edinburg . . . .” to Margot’s piano accompaniment   I think most of us had fun with this skit, but our apologies to anyone who might have been offended. 

L to R: Wayne, Jim Green, and Eddie Marburger

 

Now, it should be known that we hold our classmate athletes in the highest esteem.  This good-natured cooperation in our silly little skit only heightens our respect for these first-class sportsmen and women.  They really are good sports!  Hope everyone had as much fun with it as we did.

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