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COOPER
We won!
When I played for Oakland I never felt such pride in my teammates like I did for Carolina. They worked so hard and never really got noticed until now. Hell, I never even noticed them and my own uncle was the coach. They weren’t a part of the division I was in, so Oakland never played them, and if they did it was only on rare occasions. I could only hope that I’d get to play against them at least one time before I retired. I wanted to show them that they made a mistake in letting me go.
“Dude, we have to celebrate tonight,” Derek shouted, clapping me on the shoulder. “We’re going to go to a couple of bars, you want to go?”
I had some celebrating to do, but it wasn’t going to be with a bunch of drunk football players at a night club. I smiled and said, “Sorry, man, but
