Jenkins remembers his name and his pet's name. That's about it.

It’s not every day you get to throw yourself in the path of eleven aggressive young men whose sole purpose in life is to knock you to the ground.  But that’s exactly what Frenship senior Billy Jenkins did all night long to become the most valuable player of the game against the Permian Basin Vampires last Friday.

“I just went out there and did real good, and you wanna do real good, and I thought I did real good,” Billy spouted, as doctors attended to him on the sidelines after a particularly gruesome tackle.  “I can’t feel my toes,” he added.

Coach Michael Messerly couldn’t be happier.  “Billy’s performance out there tonight should remind us that we all gotta, you know, rally together as a team.  Billy’s a team player, and he’s not afraid to endure the multiple concussions and run the risk of permanent damage to the spinal cord for the benefit of the team.  When you’ve got a guy like Billy out there taking bumps like he does, you know, everybody wins.”

Jenkins, who’s taken more hits in the three games so far this season than his first three years of high school combined, agrees:  “I just go out there to do real good, cause I wanna do good, and I think I do real good.  I have a puppy at home.”

Frenship is expected to run a one-man “Billy Jenkins” style defense against the Amarillo Shitstorm this Friday night.  Billy thinks they can’t lose as long as they stick to their already proven-successful formula: “I’m gonna go out there Friday and do real good.  I wanna do good.  I think I do good.”

Billy looks out on the field, his gaze wandering aimlessly from the empty bleachers to the hydration table on the fifty yard line.  “My puppy, his name is Patches.”

And what a lucky puppy he is.