tremendous upside: who the fuck is bambi... and how dat bitch taste?

it's hubie's phrase, really, it is. but hubie belongs to us all. and so should willie, who i remember reading about like... 4 years ago? 5? time flies when you're having* fun**.

“He’s got tremendous upside, but a lot of guys have tremendous upside,” Brandt said in a telephone interview. “A lot of them just never reach the top of it.”

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Beyond football, Glenville State has been a cultural awakening for Williams. As he talks about playing horseshoes and eating venison, he smiles and flashes his eight gold-capped teeth.

“All I could think of was Bambi,” Williams said of eating venison. “But when I finally tasted it, it wasn’t that bad.”

Because Glenville’s lone McDonald’s closes at 11 on most nights, Williams has also started cooking on a George Foreman grill.

“I be feeling like George Foreman sometimes because I have that Foreman grill on fire,” he said. “You can throw throw anything on there.”

That includes French fries and family packs of steak that Williams cooks for teammates.

“We eat like real vikings,” he said.

enjoy the ephemera. and viva la willie, ad infinitum--you'll always be havin' wingspan unbelievable with us at girthy, brother.