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BARRY LAIL

SELECTED TO ALL-TIME POSSUM TEAM AS B SIDE INSIDE CENTER

BARRY LAIL WAS KNOWN AS "SCARY," AND IT FIT HIM PERFECTLY.

"THE VERY FIRST ROAD TRIP I WENT ON WITH BARRY WAS TO ASHEVILLE," SAID PAT DORWIN. "OF COURSE I SPILLED A BEER BETWEEN MY LEGS AND ONTO THE UPHOLSTERY OF HIS NEW CAR RIGHT AWAY. BARRY WAS NONE TOO PLEASED ABOUT THAT.

"HE KEPT GIVING ME THE 'EVIL EYE' FROM HIS REAR VIEW MIRROR. I GUESS HE DIDN'T WANT ME PISSING IN MY PANTS, SO HE FINALLY SAID, "LIGHTEN UP, NEW GUY, IT'S OK.'"

DORWIN SAID HAVING THE LIKES OF ART REYNOLDS, STEVE MOORE AND FRANK BARBER IN THE CAR DIDN'T HELP.

"I WEIGHED ABOUT A BUCK-50 AND WAS IN A CAR WITH MONSTERS, STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF A WET BACK SEAT," DORWIN SAID. "AND, OF COURSE, THOSE GUYS AREN'T KNOWN TO RAG FOREVER ON ANYTHING, ARE THEY? I WAS GLAD WHEN WE GOT TO THE PITCH."

LAIL, AT ONE TIME THE ALL-TIME LEADING RUSHER IN BLOUNT COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS HISTORY - ALL OF THEM - GAVE NO QUARTER IN PRACTICE OR GAMES.

"BARRY WAS 110 PERCENT GO FORWARD WITH THE BALL OR HE WOULD HEAD STRAIGHT FOR THE BALLCARRIER ON DEFENSE AND CRUSH THE SHIT OUT OF HIM," DORWIN SAID.

LAIL STARTED PLAYING WITH THE POSSUMS THEIR INITIAL SEASON, SEEING TIME AT PROP AND FLANKER.

"I ONLY REMEMBER HIM AT OUTSIDE CENTER, SO I GUESS THE SELECTORS FIGURED OUT THAT WAS WHERE HE COULD DO THE MOST DAMAGE TO THE MOST PEOPLE," SAID DORWIN.

FULL NAME: BARRY D. LAIL
NICKNAME: SCARY LAIL
POSSUM CAREER: 1981-1990
POSSUM NUMBER: 34
HEIGHT: 5-11
WEIGHT: A SLIM 235
POSITIONS PLAYED: PROP, FLANKER, OUTSIDE CENTER
OFFICES HELD: ASSISTANT CHICKEN TASTER
MEMORABLE GAMES/SEASONS: BEATING BIRMINGHAM IN MID-SOUTH TOURNEY
PERSONAL QOUTATIONS: "PRACTICE LIKE YOU PLAY."
BIRTHDATE: 4-14-59
BIRTHPLACE: BLOUNT COUNTY
OTHER CLUBS: TENNESSEE LONGRIFLES
RESIDES: BLOUNT COUNTY
FAMILY: WIFE, ALICIA; DAUGHTER, HALEY; SON, COLE (PLAYS FOR UT)
OCCUPATION: SALES, BORAL BRICKS

JACK LAIL

BARRY'S OLDER BROTHER.

POSSUM CAREER: 1980-1981

POSSUM NUMBER: 13

STEVE LINK

SELECTED TO ALL-TIME POSSUM TEAM AS B SIDE FLANKER (TIE)

THE PERFECT LINK (NO PUN INTENDED) BETWEEN BACKS AND FORWARDS, STEVE LINK PLAYED WELL AT EITHER FLANKER OR CENTER.

"I GUESS STEVE COULD TELL THE FORWARDS THE BACKS WEREN'T WIMPS WHO JUST SCORED TRIES THE FORWARDS SET UP, BUT HE COULD ALSO TELL US OPPORTUNISTIC BACKS HOW HARD THE FORWARDS WORKED TO KEEP POSSESSION OR POACH THE BALL," SAID PAT DORWIN.

LINK WAS MORE COMFORTABLE ON THE FLANK, BUT SAW A NUMBER OF A SIDE GAMES AS A CENTER.

FULL NAME: STEVEN JASON LINK
POSSUM CAREER: 1988-1992
POSSUM NUMBER: 62
HEIGHT: 6-1
WEIGHT: 187
POSITIONS PLAYED: FLANKER, CENTER