Complete non sequitur observation: Interesting to see the kid from Huntsville Virgil Grissom High. Virgil Grissom was better known as Gus, one of the original Mercury astronauts who died in the Apollo 1 fire in 1967. I’m sure there are other schools named for astronauts but that’s the first one I’ve seen – even in the Houston area. (Not to be confused with Astronaut High School in Titusville, FL, which produced Cris Collinsworth, Wilber Marshall and Daniel Tosh, aka Tosh.0).
Yeah I knew there was a big NASA place in Huntsville and figured that was the connection, but I hadn’t encountered any school names until this.
Second Huntsville non sequitur: The University of Alabama at Huntsville doesn’t have a football team, but it does have varsity ice hockey. They play in a hockey conference that includes the University of Alaska. There’s your road trip in January…