itsybittle:

In regards
to this post by @littlestpersimmon about ballet dancer Bitty, may I humbly suggest:

Bitty who
used to do ballet and was pretty good, but has to give it up when they moved to
Madison and started doing no contact football as a way to keep active.

He gets a
football scholarship by accident, because there were some scouts at one of
Coach Bittle’s games to see a promising player, and Bitty sometimes will be
around helping the guys warm up (he has a neutral relationship with the
football team here, and the guys who locked him in the closet where from his
previous school) and he catches the eye of Coach Hall.

Coach
Hall finds out who he is, and that Bitty has a game the next day, so he goes
and tapes him. Coach Murray sees the tape and agrees that the kid could potentially
be a great backup wide receiver since he has
steady hands and is good at keeping his eyes on the ball. Plus Bitty is pretty
agile and fast as hell.

(Basically, Bitty would only play when their starting wide receiver
is being too closely defended, so passing to them isn’t possible),

However Bitty
is deadly afraid of tackles and that’s a problem.

They
offer him a partial scholarship, but it comes with conditions. Bitty has to
prove he can play properly with tackles and all that, if he can’t he’s off the
team (he can stay at uni but obviously no scholarship money for him).

Coach
encourages Bitty to take it, and Bitty sort of gets ‘pressured’ into at least
trying it out, but at the same time he does wants to go to Samwell, so it’s
50/50.

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