When Sharon Seiling ran up to her husband to give him a hug and a kiss, he recalls, “It gave you a sense of home.”
Most of the players hadn’t been home since August 13, more than a month earlier, and they wouldn’t be back until the end of September.
“We were used to long road trips,” Seiling adds. “That’s not out of the ordinary. But these were not ordinary conditions.”
Sharon told him, with a mischievous grin, “Just wait till you see our room!”
“Well, tell me about it,” Rod said. “No no—just wait till you see it.”
“So we go up to our room,” Seiling says, “and it’s just one of the worst rooms I’d ever seen. We had two beds basically made out of plywood, and what they called a mattress was an inch thick. I just looked at Sharon and said, ‘Just one more thing.’
“‘It’s like a Third World country!’ she replied. “‘But it is what it is, so let’s make the best of it.’ It wasn’t like someone else got a better room.”