Comments on: TWER‘s first podcast: former Auburn player Thom Gossom sits down after Walk-On http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/06/twers-first-podcast-thom-gossom-sits-down-after-walk-on/ Auburn's Daily Meta-Memoir Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:28:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Boggs http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/06/twers-first-podcast-thom-gossom-sits-down-after-walk-on/comment-page-1/#comment-13007 John Boggs Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:20:58 +0000 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/?p=11690#comment-13007 Heck, I was a walk-on with Gossom the same year. (I was about the last of the straight-on kickers ever to play college ball) I live just down the way from Thomas and John Mardis and remember walking back from football practice many a time and being sort of amazed and amused by the first two black dudes I had ever spent any time with. i connected better with Mardis and was a little put off by the "black power" stuff that Thomas put out. Later, I got to know Thomas a little better and found him to be a really good guy. Ironically, I thought for sure that Mardis was going to be a star player-big, strong and tough. Who knew? I did enjoy the book. It brought back tons of memories. I was hoping he'd at least mention the 37 yard field goal that I nailed against the Bama freshman squad (my personal highlight) but I guess he didn't think it was that critical to the storyline. Please pass along a "howdy" to Thom. Thanks John Boggs Heck, I was a walk-on with Gossom the same year. (I was about the last of the straight-on kickers ever to play college ball)

I live just down the way from Thomas and John Mardis and remember walking back from football practice many a time and being sort of amazed and amused by the first two black dudes I had ever spent any time with. i connected better with Mardis and was a little put off by the “black power” stuff that Thomas put out. Later, I got to know Thomas a little better and found him to be a really good guy. Ironically, I thought for sure that Mardis was going to be a star player-big, strong and tough. Who knew?

I did enjoy the book. It brought back tons of memories. I was hoping he’d at least mention the 37 yard field goal that I nailed against the Bama freshman squad (my personal highlight) but I guess he didn’t think it was that critical to the storyline.

Please pass along a “howdy” to Thom.

Thanks

John Boggs

]]> By: Walk-On, Redux: Actor’s new memoir zooms in on deleted scenes of southern football integration | The War Eagle Reader http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/06/twers-first-podcast-thom-gossom-sits-down-after-walk-on/comment-page-1/#comment-13003 Walk-On, Redux: Actor’s new memoir zooms in on deleted scenes of southern football integration | The War Eagle Reader Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:07:03 +0000 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/?p=11690#comment-13003 [...] Texas. It is posted here in full dot.com and only slightly polished glory as a companion piece to TWER’s inaugural podcast, which happens to be a podcast on… Thom Gossom. Re-disclosing, fully: I helped Thom with [...] [...] Texas. It is posted here in full dot.com and only slightly polished glory as a companion piece to TWER’s inaugural podcast, which happens to be a podcast on… Thom Gossom. Re-disclosing, fully: I helped Thom with [...]

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