It was sad to everyone. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Golden Lions football team had fallen on such hard times that it no longer played games on a regulation field. In fact, the Golden Lions were limited to eight-man football, a game designed for tiny high schools with student bodies too small to field eleven-man teams. Their games had been moved to the former site of Pumphrey Stadium, now a vacant lot of grass and weeds and a football field eighty yards long and forty yards wide.
Rock remembered playing peewee football as an eleven-year-old on a similar field in Huntsville, Alabama, nearly fifty years earlier. He shared that with Ronnie, Arkansas-Pine Bluff's sports information director, who could only shake his head.
"I don't know what to tell you," Ronnie said. "We can't even get the band to come to our games."
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