Stankass Says

Funny as we get older we have those times we remember from way back as if they had occurred only yesterday. As a young lad I would go to Baltimore Colts games with my dad (see earlier posting). The Baltimore Colts Marching Band would line up at the goal line to a drum beat and then this man ...this tall man wearing a Colts Marching Band uniform would take these e-nor-mous high steps and lead the band into the Colts fight song. In what looked to me to be only three large steps this giant of a man had moved from the goal line to mid-field (or so it seemed). That giant was Mr. Richard Otto, the Colts Marching Band drum major. Didn't know this man and never got to meet him, but I gotta tell you - I'll never forget him as he was an integral part of my Sunday afternoons at the ballyard with my dad. I saw that Mr. Otto had passed on Tuesday the 21st of February in this year 2006. As I read his obituary the vision of Mr. Otto leading the marching band played through my mind just like it was Sunday at 100pm on 33rd Street and the Colts (the real Colts)were preparing to battle ...
Stankass out...