Gary Gulman

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Gary did not want to become a football player.

No interest in the game at all.

He was a timid kid, the kind of kid who, in baseball, would close his eyes when he was up at bat.

He was so scared of getting hit by the ball.

But when you're in high school, you know, your personality is still up for grabs.

And at Gary's high school, there was not one person, but two people with a very different vision of who he was.

They were assistant high school football coaches and very noticeable, big personalities, and they were twins.

And...

I didn't really know their name.

I'd seen them around.

They were super handsome and in great shape.

I mean, they were ripped, and they would wear Gold's Gym tank tops and jams, these shorts, these Hawaiian shorts.

They would wear those, and they had really long hair, and they were very charming, charismatic, funny.

And they were known as the Jetsons, which was this self-proclaimed nickname, I think.

Wait, they called themselves the Jetsons?

They referred to themselves?

Yeah, because the Jetsons was people from the future, and they felt that they were.

Like that.