A man's locker is often his home away from home. Most players include things like pictures of their wife and kids, parents and even sometimes they have pictures of pets. Marc Spector doesn't have a wife and kids. His father was fairly absent during his childhood and his mother was only there physically, really. Marc was raised more by his nanny than any blood parent. So, safe to say, his locker would be absent of these heartwarming mementos.
Perched on the top shelf, beside where he places his helmet, he has a stuffed animal of Sammy the Owl, Rice's beloved mascot. He owes a lot of his success to the time he spent at the Houston based college, and as a parting gift from his mentor and assistant coach, he was given this plush owl. He values it greatly and as a ritual, he gives him a pat on the head before every game. One thing a fellow teammate, Angus Winchester noticed week 3 of the preseason was that after the game Sammy was turned to face the television, as if he's watching the game as Marc is playing. But he was certain that it wasn't faced that way when he left before the game. How it gets turned seems to be an enigma.
On the left wall is a schedule of the Otters season. He has some numbered penciled in beside each game, but what they mean are not readily apparent. One could surmise that they be an estimate of how many tackles, interceptions or pass deflections Marc expects to have that week, but the numbers seem a bit high. Perhaps it could be a projected score? Nobody aside from Marc can truly know the meanings behind these scribblings.
Placed on the bottom shelf is an mp3 player connected to a set of wireless earphones. Because he doesn't play his music audibly so all can hear, only a select few know what songs he listens to. As part of his rookie hazing, a teammate, one Bradley Westfield, snuck into his locker and listened to his mp3 player. The validity of Mr. Westfield's claim is to be questioned, but he claimed that there was only one song on the mp3 player, Two Princes by Spin Doctors. It would be hard to fathom that while working out, he listens to one song over and over... forever. Or does he?!
Altogether, Marc Spector's locker is quite unassuming at first glance but there's a shroud of mystery to the whole thing.
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Perched on the top shelf, beside where he places his helmet, he has a stuffed animal of Sammy the Owl, Rice's beloved mascot. He owes a lot of his success to the time he spent at the Houston based college, and as a parting gift from his mentor and assistant coach, he was given this plush owl. He values it greatly and as a ritual, he gives him a pat on the head before every game. One thing a fellow teammate, Angus Winchester noticed week 3 of the preseason was that after the game Sammy was turned to face the television, as if he's watching the game as Marc is playing. But he was certain that it wasn't faced that way when he left before the game. How it gets turned seems to be an enigma.
On the left wall is a schedule of the Otters season. He has some numbered penciled in beside each game, but what they mean are not readily apparent. One could surmise that they be an estimate of how many tackles, interceptions or pass deflections Marc expects to have that week, but the numbers seem a bit high. Perhaps it could be a projected score? Nobody aside from Marc can truly know the meanings behind these scribblings.
Placed on the bottom shelf is an mp3 player connected to a set of wireless earphones. Because he doesn't play his music audibly so all can hear, only a select few know what songs he listens to. As part of his rookie hazing, a teammate, one Bradley Westfield, snuck into his locker and listened to his mp3 player. The validity of Mr. Westfield's claim is to be questioned, but he claimed that there was only one song on the mp3 player, Two Princes by Spin Doctors. It would be hard to fathom that while working out, he listens to one song over and over... forever. Or does he?!
Altogether, Marc Spector's locker is quite unassuming at first glance but there's a shroud of mystery to the whole thing.
417 Words
@Bwestfield
@timeconsumer
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