"Tickets!! I got two tickets for sale..Who wants em?" Kenny Riggins was standing outside Williams auditorium in Pretoria..Mayfield was playing their arch-rival Dopeyville in the finals of the league tournament, and tickets to the championship game were selling at a premium. Kenny Riggins was the man to see if you wanted to find a "hard to get" event ticket..By the time Bob Castle and Shorty Sanders arrived at Williams auditorium to watch the championship game..All the tickets were long gone..The only way the two of them were going to watch one of the biggest games in Mayfield High history..Kenny Riggins..And it was going to cost..
"Riggins how much you want for those tickets" Castle only had 50 bucks on him and was worried that he was going to get priced out real quick..A van load of Mayfield alumni had just pulled in and they did not have tickets either..Riggins was a master at selling tickets, he always knew when to get top dollar..His plan was to start a bidding war with some of the Mayfield and Dopey alumni that were arriving late..If that happened Bob Castle and Shorty Sanders were going to miss one of the biggest games in Mayfield history, and that was not an option.
"Since you and I are friends Castle, I will sell you a pair for 80 bucks." "I only got 50 can I hit you later with the rest?" Castle replied..Riggins was not accustomed to extending credit for his services, he had spotted a group of alumni looking for tickets and would probably have gotten 4x more than the 50 dollars Castle had to offer.."You know how hot these tickets are? but since were friends and I don't want to see you cry..Castle was starting to "tear-up" a little thinking that he was going to miss the game. I will take your 50 and you can pay me the difference later..Castle gave Riggins the 50 and Shorty and him made a v-line for their seats.
The game was a classic..Crisstoffo Artinelli..aka.."The Italian Flash" hit a 30 footer at the buzzer to give Mayfield it's first league title in 20 years.. The best surprise of all, the tickets that Riggins sold us ended up being VIP..I like to refer to them as "Jack Nicholson" seats..At the time Castle wondered why Riggins gave him such a "sweet-heart" deal when it was obvious he could have fetched a lot more for them..Years later Riggins and Castle became excellent friends. Castle and him were reminiscing about the first time they met each other..I asked Riggins "Why did you give me such a sweet deal on those tickets, at the time we weren't really friends?" Riggins just smiled and said "when I saw you were starting to "tear-up" because you thought you were going to miss the game, I said to myself "This guy is pathetic, but he has the passion, so I decided to cut you a break..Besides I still had ten other tickets to sell..I turned a nice profit."...:)
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