A Very Special Night

Patrick Thibodeau got a chance to start on Senior Night for the Greely High School basketball team. Now you may say “I don’t give two shits about Greely High School” and to that I say: Yeah.  Me neither.

But you see, Patrick has Downs Syndrome.  ”Oooh…” you say. “You better not be about to make fun of him, cock sucker.” And of course I’m not going to, but fuck you for thinking I would .

I just kept thinking about the guys playing for the other team in this one.  The coaches discussed it before hand, and the Greely coach told the other guy to have his team play normal, but… Come on. With all the press there, and the entire town in the stands chanting “Patrick, Patrick” are you gonna be the guy that swats the ball back in his face every time he shoots?

I mean, I might… But that’s because that Patrick kid is a lot better at basketball than I am.  After strangers watch me play basketball for a couple of minutes they cheer like crazy every time I don’t get hit in the crotch by a pass.  Which is usually about 1 in 11 times I’m passed the ball.  But I don’t see any fucking cameras at MY games.  Ass holes.

**Editor’s Note**  He hits 3-Pointers at 1:44 and 3:47 in the video, but the whole thing is worth watching.

Tags: basketball, high school

3 Comments to A Very Special Night

Craig
February 5, 2009

Great story, great video.

Funny prose, what more could you ask for….ok well scantily clad women come to mind…but still great

Sis
February 6, 2009

Congrats on the Deadspin link, boys!

Doug
February 18, 2009

I heared about this on the big jab and was going to show it to my 10 and 12 year old but the language used in the comment after is not needed. As a coach and a parent I was not happy to see that

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