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No shirts, no shorts ... lots of service!

By Eddie Matz
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

This column appears in the October 19 Body Issue of ESPN The Magazine. The meal is just plain awkward. On a gray September Friday, we sit in a western Pennsylvania pizzeria, sharing appetizers and uncomfortable conversation. A bartender, a trainer, a teacher, a college kid and a couple of hack writers -- six disparate souls with little in common except the dawning reality of what is about to come. We are the Breakfast Club, only this is dinner. "Anybody wanna split that stuffed mushroom?" ...

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