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Fanatical football review5/27/2023 Most of the time, I figure they can wait. "But since that was my dad, I figured I better go. "I don't miss a game for funerals, normally," said Nelson, a retired commercial painter. Since his senior year, Nelson estimates he has missed only five Wildcats football games in 47 seasons, including one for a wedding and another after his father died. Nelson graduated from Valdosta High School in 1973, and like the rest of the town, he loves its high school football teams. Nelson nearly died, losing his right arm below the elbow, breaking his left arm and suffering internal injuries. He was trying to cross a road while riding a horse and failed to see a pickup truck approaching. Nelson said the accident happened when he was just 13 years old. Can you call me back?" Michael Nelson (right) gave a deposition related to former Valdosta coach Alan Rodemaker's lawsuit against the Valdosta Board of Education. "I do have one arm, and I am frying chicken right now. To this reporter calling to ask him about the secret recordings he made, it sounded like a classic south Georgia euphemism.Īfter a few more questions about the recordings, Nelson pleaded that he'd had enough. I'm in here with one arm trying to fry some chicken." So many of you guys are calling me from all over the damn place. "I don't really want to talk about that, OK?" Nelson said. In fact, he seemed downright irritated that yet another reporter was on the other end of his phone. ![]() When first contacted earlier this month, Nelson seemed to be an unwilling participant in the red-hot controversy. We'd get to the controversy over lunch at a chicken fingers restaurant, but first, Nelson wanted to explain how he gained the moniker that has followed him for much of his life. When Nelson secretly recorded a conversation in Propst's office nearly a year ago in which the coach unexpectedly suggested that the Bulldogs and Crimson Tide were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to recruits, he had no idea of the far-reaching ramifications his decision would have. I think most of them know I was only trying to do the right thing." "About half of the people are glad I did it, and about half are mad at me. "I think the town is split about what I did," Nelson said. That's why earlier that morning, Nelson abruptly changed the rendezvous place for an interview with this reporter from Valdosta to Ashburn, about 70 miles north, out of fears that he might be recognized. It became the highest-profile development in a 15-month saga of small-town, big-time high school football featuring a controversial firing (and subsequent discrimination lawsuit), Propst's even more controversial hire, a battle over Touchdown Club finances, the addition and then loss of an elite transfer quarterback from California, and the launching of an investigation by the Georgia High School Association. ![]() After a recorded meeting between Nelson and Propst was posted to YouTube earlier this month, Valdosta placed Propst, its coach, on administrative leave. What Nelson did last May might very well end the career of Rush Propst, one of the most controversial and successful high school football coaches in the country, while also exposing salacious allegations regarding recruiting at SEC superpowers Alabama and Georgia. Nelson knows he can't be too careful after he sparked a small-town tempest in the high school football hotbed of Valdosta, a city of more than 56,000 residents located about 15 miles north of the Florida state line and home to the 24-time state-champion Wildcats. Nelson turned to a rather imposing assistant coach from a nearby high school who had followed him there in an SUV to ensure his safety. ![]() Nelson, the 65-year-old former executive director of the Valdosta Touchdown Club, smiled and said, "Hey, I'm Nub. Two weeks ago, Michael "Nub" Nelson climbed out of his Toyota Corolla in a parking lot off Interstate 75 and approached. Just like Walmart and JC Penny, watch your charges because they may rise up at checkout.ASHBURN, Ga. ![]() I thought that was a mistake but now I know it's how they operate. I also when deleting my account realized it was Fanatics that substituted a football I had ordered with a knock off that wasn't the same as the picture. It took me two tried to get a chat rep and the last one said the best they could do was to give a 30% discount coupon- but that would negate my free shipping, so basically they are getting their money either way. When I went to order my price jumped up by 30%. What I didn't realize is they will actually increase your prices as they gauge interest and there was even a pop up that said the price was locked. I had a cart with 9 items and one item went away, I get that because there was only one and somebody bought it. This company advertises discounted items but at checkout they will increase the price so buyer beware.
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