Honest to the Good Lord story here.......I was loading my boat about 15 years ago and looked down in the water at the boat ramp and picked up a brand new looking Ken Onion black pocket knife. Cool. So I liked it and carried it around for a while. So here's the story........
When my son, now 23, was in the 2nd grade, he loved his teacher, Mrs. Betsy, so much that he invited her to his birthday party. His birthday is October 8. It was on a Sunday that year. She came and brought her husband, Coach Clyde, the High School Head Football Coach, with her. They gave my son a real football. *My son was always a husky kid and ended up playing football from 3rd grade to 12th grade. Made All Conference & All State and played in the All Star Game the summer after he graduated.* Anyway, so Coach tells my son he can tell he's "just built" like a football player and he can't wait to coach him someday. They throw a few passes and then the Coach & his wife leave. It was a special moment for my young son, and us as well. How many high school head football coaches have time to go to a 2nd grader's birthday party? How many of us guys would go to a kid's birthday party with our wives? I probably wouldn't.
Back to the story.....Coach noticed that I used that Ken Onion knife to cut the strings on a birthday present and he commented that he liked it. He offered a trade. He pulled a Case Russlock out of his pocket. I liked it, so we shook hands and made the trade. 5 days later on Friday the 13th, Coach Clyde had a massive heart attack and died just before a football game. He was 50 years old.
Coach Clyde O'Dell always told his players to play with "no regrets." It's been a long time and most of the players at the school now don't even know who he was, but they see the "No Regrets" painted all over the school and really big on a wall in the Field House at the school. My son loved him from the moment he met him, and he loved his wife, Mrs. Betsy too. She, sadly, has passed away too, from a brain aneurysm, in her early 60's. Sad how life plays out.
So to make this long story short......I carry that Case Russlock everywhere I go. Someday I'm gonna give it to my son, but right now it's still mine. I always remember that particular birthday party very vividly.
Get a Case Russlock. Great deer knife and handy for just about anything. You can open & close it with one hand if you need to.
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Originally Posted by GoTennTitans
Honest to the Good Lord story here.......I was loading my boat about 15 years ago and looked down in the water at the boat ramp and picked up a brand new looking Ken Onion black pocket knife. Cool. So I liked it and carried it around for a while. So here's the story........
