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before the championship basketball match. The whole community was there to hear what
McFarland would refer to as the best game he’d ever seen. It was against the cross-town
rivals.
The game was awesome. Every one of Tommy McReyolds’ records were broken in
that game. It was unbelievable. The game came right down to the wire. It was 51 to 50.
“We were about to lose by one point when, just as the gun was about to go off,
a young player broke through the crowd and shot the winning basket at the last minute,”
McFarland later recounted.
McFarland’s team had won by one point and everyone went down to the center
court to embrace and join in the excitement. People were hugging and kissing. (Some were
taking advantage of all that, too!) Then Papa McReynolds hugged Dr. McFarland and,
with tears streaming down his face, said, “I guess you were right. I guess we should never
hang our dreams in the closet.”
He said that because the young player who broke all of The Rope’s records, the
player who shot the winning basket, was Lance.
Never hang your dreams in the closet.
