Gary Gulman

There was a newspaper article in the Salem Evening News the next day that called me Mr. Raw Potential.

Wow.

Yeah.

And it did not last.

The season opener, his first great game,

It was also his last great game.

I had one more decent game where I caught a pass and I made a really, really good tackle.

But the teams started to do this thing where they would send guys to block me and my legs.

And they would send a couple of guys and they would just roll into my legs.

I think it's called a cut block if I remember properly.

That was how they would sort of neutralize me.

And didn't the Jetsons have some technique you could use to get around that?

No.

Either they didn't suggest one or I wasn't able to employ it.

Opposing quarterbacks learned to stay away from the side of the line that Gary was on, so he wasn't sacking anyone anymore.

And after this one time when Gary fumbled the ball on a big play at the goal line, suddenly he says they stopped sending him out for passes.

So no more hurrah catches.

He wasn't making big plays.

He was not living up to all that bright potential.

And some dark part of his personality kicked in.