The Mets PR director is happy to see the ‘Fairleigh Ridiculous’ jokes and more have stopped in light of the school’s success in the NCAA Tournament.
“God rest his soul, I’m sure Al’s looking down in heaven, I’m sure he’s very proud of what the FDU team did last night,” Horwitz said.
“We were always kind of like the sacrificial lambs. And Al knew that going in. But he did it with a purpose. Horwitz came to FDU from NYU and developed a friendship with LoBalbo. Just not at the very beginning on Dec. 1, 1972.“We played University of Maine in Orono, Maine,” Horwitz said. “And I wrote the names down wrong in the scorebook, and we started the game with two technical fouls, and we wound up losing the game, 68-67 in overtime. In that day, the SIDs keep the scorebook. Players on the court didn’t have the right numbers.
“We had an Arab and Israeli goalie on the same soccer team,” Horwitz said. “We had a 43-year-old freshman football player [Mal Dixon]. We had a priest [John Piece] that played hockey. We had a [5-foot-5] baseball player [Steve Dembowski] who was hit by a pitch 128 times in four years. We had a wrestler with six kids. We had a football player who overcame Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
“I did have an All-American at Fairleigh Dickinson when I was there,” Horwitz said. “A guy named Redonia Duck Jr. made the first-team All-America Name Team. He went by Red Duck. He was like a 6-6 center, he was a pretty good player.
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