More on Built Ford Tough…
By Robert Przybylo
BPrzybylo@opubco.com
(left to right: Turner Petersen, Ford Price, Ryan Randolph. Photo courtesy Sherri Price).
Seriously, I’m not the Heritage Hall beat writer. It just appears that way. I’ve written a lot about the Chargers during the last two years.
But nothing can top the emotional investment put into today’s Ford Price III story.
I heard about this from one of his best friends, HH quarterback Turner Petersen and Mike Turpen. I’ve been keeping this in my back pocket for a while because I wanted to make sure to tell this story right.
Not everything is fit to print. Here are some of the things that got left on the cutting room floor (if that really existed).
- I asked Ford about the love buckets. I wanted to know about some of the interesting things he’s received. He said it’s not real interesting, but the cheesy jokes some of the kids have written have been great.
- There aren’t a lot of experts for
- Ford was in
- Ford started at 170 pounds and got as low as 137. I joked to him that that is probably what I currently weigh. They don’t call me Boneman for nothing.
- Ford said he loves making it out for the practices and games. I thought it might have been a little tough for him, but no, he’s fine.
- Mike Turpen has been a big influence on Ford. Turpen created the Turpen Poetry Society with various members of Heritage Hall and McGuinness. I wrote about their story last year and the poem “If.” The boys are working on the “Sum of Life” now.
- The family cannot state enough how blessed they are with the way things have turned out.
- Ford and McGuinness QB Ryan Randolph plan on rooming together at
- And once again, the link to the
The Chargers have played this season for Ford and now face their toughest test yet against Lincoln Christian. Should be fun and should be a classic.
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