Mike Eruzione

And I remember getting on the plane at Eastern Airlines.

That's how long ago that was.

And I'm sitting next to Dave Silke, and Silke's kind of got tears in his eyes.

And I said, Silke, what's the matter?

And he just looked at me and he went, it's over.

We're never going to play together again.

And it was like, fuck, you're right.

And we all went our separate ways.

You know, Neil Broughton signed, Mark Johnson signed, all these guys signed pro contracts.

And I remember going home.

And we won a gold medal on Sunday, and Monday night my mother's making me dinner.

And I'm like, what the hell just happened to me?

And I had to get up early the next morning to go to New York to do Good Morning America.

And I slept in my own bed.

My mother made breakfast the next morning and had a car out, limousine, taking me to the airport to take me to New York.

I got on the Eastern Airlines shuttle and everybody on the plane started applauding.

And I turned around, I didn't know who got on the plane.

I swear to God, I went, what, you people watched?

And the pilot, and he just wrote a book, the pilot, in the book he mentions, he told me to get out of my seat and come and sit behind him on the plane because people wanted to come up and talk to me and get autographs and pictures.

And he said, don't tell anybody you're here because you're not allowed to be here.