Open In The End Zone, But . . . Pass Is Overthrown
Without any notice Coach Perry tells me to go in at tight end. In sixteen years of football I had never lined up once at tight end. As we huddle around him he tells our quarterback Deontae Brown I’m his first read and to hit me with a pass if I can get open in the end...
Kevin Costner’s Screenplay
For two years I worked on and wrote a screenplay pertaining to The Golden Gladiator. I do not know why I wrote a screenplay before I wrote the book, but I did. I started it late 2014 and had it finished by the spring of 2016. Now, writing one is easy . . . getting it...
Cross Road Blues
I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees, I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees, Asked the Lord above, “Have mercy, now, save poor Bob if you please. . . .” —Robert...
The Touchdown Pass
We were playing against my dear friend and former coach, Ernest Givins, who was coaching our opponents the Dunedin Pirates. I had talked to him and Coach Thad before the game and it was great seeing them. Late in the game Coach Perry told me to take the field after we...
About Me
Michael Lynch, the “Golden Gladiator” was born in New York City in 1949. As a young boy, Michael preferred sports to the classroom, more likely to pick up a football or a baseball than a book. A commitment to the love of the game of football and following a dream led him to trying out for a semi-pro football team in his mid sixties. 
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