… good luck with it Jbyrd
. … Kieth … why’d you knock the linebacker out ?
We were at a college party, standing under an awning, drinking during a light rain. I had just started law school there, after graduating from there about 8 years before. My youngest brother Nick was an undergraduate there. A bunch of us were talking, when a woman named Valerie, who was the younger sister of my brother Nick's good friend Jessica, said something that the linebacker, who she was dating, didn't like. He backhanded her hard across the mouth. Valerie fell to the ground and started screaming. My brother Nick instantly started fighting the linebacker.
The campus police drive by every few minutes and we didn't need any trouble. I got the linebacker in a half Nelson with a choke, which was pretty hard, because he was around 6' 3". I cut off his air enough, that he stopped struggling. I did him dirty and let my brother get in a few extra punches. I held him until he calmed down.
Nick's roommate stupidly insisted they shake hands. Neither wanted to shake hands. When Nick stepped forward, the linebacker shoved him backwards hard. Nick slipped on the wet ground and fell hard on his back, with his head hitting the sidewalk.
The linebacker fell down on him and tried to pin him with his knees, so he could beat Nick's face. I had had enough and hit him with a hard rabbit punch, right where his neck and head join, knocking him senseless. He fell on Nick and Nick got stuck under his unconscious body. He was a big dude, probably 265 to 270 pounds, but not massive.
We rolled him off of Nick and he just laid there. My now brother in law said "We can't leave him here, the police will see him." He and 4 other guys put him in the alley and blocked him from sight with the trash cans.
Nick's roommate wanted to call him an ambulance. My brother responded "F him, he hit Valerie." Pretty much in unison, almost all of us repeated that. Nick's roommate stayed with the linebacker and came out and gave us frequent reports, wanting to call him an ambulance still, to which we answered the same in even better unison.
He woke up over an hour later. He remembered almost nothing from the whole day except going to class in the morning. One of the other guys told him that a guy in another team's jacket walked down the street and hit him when he got in his face. He said "That sounds like me." dropped it and walked home.
We should probably have called him an ambulance. Usually when I have knocked someone out, they wake up in less than a minute to a few minutes. I got lucky I didn't kill him. I should have hit him there with less force. I knew better, but was drunk and tired.
It was an eventful night. I started liking the guy, who became my brother in law, who didn't start dating my sister until a few years later. My cousin Matt, who also lived with my brother, had just met a woman, Cassie, the weekend before. She came over and introduced herself and told me "I'm going to marry your cousin.", which she did a few years later.
Keith