Central Arkansas's quarterback walked past Rock near Estes Stadium and barely acknowledged him. He resisted eye contact and muttered no more than a semblance of hello as he walked past. A feature story about him by Rock ran as the front center package in the paper that morning, and of course, Rock worried that something about it was amiss.
"To tell you the truth, we were all laughing about it and giving him a hard time this morning," an offensive lineman explained to Rock.
"You know, I haven't even seen it," Rock said. "What was wrong with it?"
The lineman handed a copy of the sports page to Rock, who placed it on a picnic table near the front door of the coaches' offices and the players dressing room.
"It just seemed a little flowery or something," the lineman said.
Rock read the first three paragraphs and found them packed with adjectives and adverbs he had never used. The story read nothing at all like anything he had ever written.
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