Throughout history biographers have chronicled the lives of extraordinary men. Men ubiquitously known as leaders, pioneers, mavericks, and innovators. Men who command power, utilize a trove of skills, and possess a seemingly endless supply of knowledge. Men whose legacies of greatness eventually turn to legend as time passes.
Fatty Ough
(11816985) is not one of these men. No, the story of Fatty Ough is a rather unremarkable one that details the life of a dim-witted man and his fifteen minutes of fame as a professional basketball player.
It all began for Fatty on a warm spring day when he decided to take his pet rock for a stroll. He made his way to the local park where he spotted a group of men playing basketball. Instead of continuing to meander aimlessly through the park, Fatty stood on the sidelines of the court and mindlessly gawked at the basketball being played. The players were perturbed by the strange simpleton incessantly staring at them, but they sought his assistance when they discovered that the basketball pole supporting the net was unstable. Fatty happily obliged the players' request for him to stand underneath the basket and keep the pole from swaying. Unbeknownst to Fatty was that these men he was helping were actually members of the professional basketball team known as the Devil's Advocates. Fatty had his in.
Delighted by his agreeable nature and subservient behavior, the Devil's Advocates organization decided to give Fatty a job. His main task was to stay out of the way, but he also occasionally served as a replacement pylon, as well as a towel rack. He was known as the Johnny B. Goode of standing still for an extended period of time; he was damn good at it. So good, in fact, that the team decided to put his pylon imitating skills to use by signing him as a player. The thought process from team management was that they could use Fatty against weak opponents to prevent the team's real players from growing fatigued. The plan worked masterfully. In his first ever game Fatty led the team -- in spirit -- to an eighty point victory. The opposition appealed the game afterwards claiming that the Advocate failed to put the mandatory five players on the floor for parts of the game, but they later retracted the appeal after watching the game film and confirming Fatty's existence.
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