Guy Benintendi

Profile Updated: September 4, 2022
Guy Benintendi
Residing In Boulder, CO USA
Spouse/Partner Svetlana Benintendi
Occupation retired
Children Irishka, born 1985
Misha, born 1987
Yes! Attending Reunion
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I'll return to this one if I feel inspired to write something. Right now summing up 60 years seems daunting.

School Story

It was Thursday, November 23, 1961, Thanksgiving morning. The weather was crisp and cool, perfect football weather. The long-awaited game between the Hackensack Comets and their Teaneck rival was about to begin. Hackensack had a powerful team. All they needed was a victory in this final game to garner the league championship. The Highwaymen’s season was nothing but losses, the worst in THS history, but a victory today against arch rival Hackensack would change all that. Preventing the Comets from a planned car parade with their horns blaring around the streets of Teaneck was the Highwaymen’s hope, but their chances were slim and none.

The game opened with Hackensack jumping to an early lead against the hapless Highwaymen. It looked like it would be a rout, but the boys in Blue and White clawed their way back behind a stout defense and some lucky breaks. With less than a minute left in the fourth quarter the score was Hackensack 21, Teaneck 17. Teaneck started its final drive on its own 8-yard line. After three incomplete passes the Highwaymen were down to their last play, 92 yards from pay dirt. It was 4th and 10 with 20 seconds left on the clock.

Coach Cervino, who told me before the game to be ready for my chance in the sun, sent me in with a totally unconventional play call. Since Hackensack was in a prevent defense with most of its defenders well beyond the line of scrimmage, Gunner decided our only hope was a running play. He told me to follow the fat guys up front.

I got the handoff and squeezed through a narrow gap in the line, pinballed off a couple of linebackers, and beat a cornerback to the right sideline where I started my run upfield in earnest. I juked a safety at the 30 and cut left, stiff armed a linebacker at the 35, juked a cornerback at the 45, and headed up the left sideline. I had only two men to beat now. I juked another safety at the Hackensack 40, and outran the final defender to the end zone just as time expired on the clock.

As I was standing in the end zone with my helmet in my hand the entire cheerleading squad surrounded me, showering me with kisses and offering themselves to me…………………………Then I woke up.

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