There were times, Mark McCabe remembers, when he wanted to pop by his coach's office every now and again and show him his scrapbook. Back at Royalton-Hartland High in upstate Middleport, he had been a pretty damn good player, good enough that the young coach had personally recruited him.
"I was all-conference, all-league, it wasn't like I'd just shown up and asked to be taught the game of football," says McCabe, now a private investigator in Rochester, then a young linebacker at the Rochester Institute of Technology. "I had a pretty good ego, I guess. I think we all did when we were young. And the coach, he'd just keep driving us. I wanted to tell him, 'I know what I'm doing!' " Continue
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