Letter Boxed August 23, 2022 Answers

Yeah Bicker was my guy. I was thinking about him just the other day…. after reading a post of yours actually. When T@&mpy got elected I did kind of a John Prine Spanish pipedream thing and as such never caught a single episode of GOT. When direwolf became fodder for discussion my only point of reference was 600 pounds of sin so I dusted off my old worn out vinyl workingman’s dead and dropped the needle. One thing led to another and before you know it I was riding the rails with Jack straw on Europe 72 and it struck me as uncanny some of the parallels drawn with Bicker. After sitting out his redshirt year at Baylor there was considerable early Heisman speculation around Runflat. Alas he blew out 2 or 3 ACLs in spring ball, lost his mojo and in short order sometime in early July he left Texas and headed back home to Wichita and fell in with the wrong crowd. And just like with poor old jack the die was shaken and the die had to fall. And you already know there ain’t a winner in the game….Long story short Bickers final roll was a hard ten and he ended up in a medium security prison in Oswego where he is said to have memorialized his misfortunes with a pair of cigarette ash tattoos….a quincunx on each hand…and naturally that brought me back to thinking of you Bernie.