Excellent Stingley Father's Day Piece

I ran across this today when I was doing a search for Father's Day pieces. It's a long feature/narrative about the recently passed Darryl Stingley and his son, Derek -- and their relationship between his injury and his death in April.

Some pretty good stuff in there. But I was most interested because I had never really read much comment from anyone in the Stingley family after his passing.

Anyway, the website for this paper is ULTRA sh#*ty. But if you can get past that, it's definitely worth the read.

http://www.albanyherald.com/archives/Sports/2007/sports061707b.html

 

Thanks for checking in, Colin. Good piece. But never been a fan of present-tense narratives.

 

Actually, I wrote the piece.

Some people liked the format and some didn't. I think it'll always be that way. I took some chances when I wrote this story and tried some stuff I hadn't before. I'm glad I did though.

The biggest shame is that our website is such a pile of sh*t. It makes the story a bit harder to read online. On the print version, there were actually lines separating the end of each flashback and the next present time scene.

 

Now, don't you feel stupid?

 

Thanks for checking in, Colin.

 

Thanks for checking in to see who's checking in, Colin.

 

Anytime, Cease. Anytime.

 

I have a feeling you're checking back to read this thread all the time. All the time.