Gary Gulman
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They were definitely the first people I ever noticed who referred to themselves in that, is it the third person?
The Jetsons are coming to get you.
The Jetsons will see you.
That's what they would say.
Sometimes they would say, Johnny Jetson will be with you today.
Joe Jetson will be with you tomorrow.
They're like magical figures.
Yeah, they really were.
And these magical figures, these assistant football coaches, they gave Gary his own nickname in the fall of junior year.
It was not a glittery name like the Jetsons.
Kind of the opposite, actually.
Waste, they called him.
As in waste of talent to like gold man to playing football.
They told him that football would get him a college scholarship.
It would get him girls.
They said the newspaper would write about him.
They wanted him on the team so badly because Gary was a giant compared to most of the kids playing football back then.
This was in Peabody, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb near Salem in the late 80s.
Most high school players back then were 5'9", 5'10".