re: Wally Pontiff remembrance thread

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don't remember where I first heard this story it may have been on tigerdroppings a few years back but I will tell it as well as I remember it. I don't know if it was true or not but it was a good story.

There was a guy who walked into a chapel and knelt down to pray. After a while he noticed a younger guy also in the chapel wearing a baseball uniform who was also there praying. So they talk for a little bit and the guy realizes he needs to get going so he tells the younger guy it was nice talking to you and introduces himself and the younger guy introduces himself as Wally. Well, as the guy is walking out of the chapel something is puzzling the older guy and when he turns to look at the younger guy he realizes no one is there.

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yeah thats pretty much the story. It happened at Jesuit High School in New orleans. where both wally and nick went to school. I heard he was in a jesuit uniform but it could be his jersey also. But i heard the story went like this priest went to pray in the chapel early in the morning and there was a jesuit student praying in there also. both got up and kinda left at the same time. and the student introduced himself as wally pontiff. the priest was from out of town so he didnt know who wally pontiff was. so he returned upstairs to the rectory and told the other priest that one of there students wally pontiff was praying early in the morning and how impressed he was. and all the priest were like well wally pontiff has been dead for a couple of years.

also i heard that a teacher saw him walking down the halls at jesuit one day.

some pretty cool stuff