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Article: Smoker's plight is difficult to fathom
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- Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- October 26, 2002
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A friend of Jeff Smoker said it best, after hearing that Manheim's
most famous athlete had been suspended from Michigan State's football
team.
"It just goes to show you it can happen to anybody," the guy noted
wistfully, "even to the best of the best."
Certainly, these are the worst of times for the best quarterback
to ever play high school football in Lancaster County, who also was
one of the best role models you could ever find.
Few who watched Smoker generate victories on the football field
and fan adulation off it would argue that. And that's what makes the
news of Smoker's misdeed so hard to take.
It's like hearing that Superman crash-landed, or that a boyscout
tripped a little old ...