Bob Longmore
7/28/1933-2/3/2003
From: Fred Longmore
Fred asked me (Dick S.) to add a few items of rememberance about Bob. The above photo and following description are from 1993....(handsome gentlemen,...one outa three ain't bad :) !!! ) Fred and his Dad, Bob Longmore, on a trip he earned from Toshiba to the Super Bowl in California 1993. That's the year D'Boys (Dallas Cowboys) pounded up on the Buffalo Bills.
Fred is being presented with an autographed football by Jim Harbaugh from the Super Bowl he and his father attended. Though Jim's been on many great clubs like Chicago, Baltimore and San Diego he's not quite made it to a super bowl yet....he wasn't playing this year, but was brought in as the celebrity speaker at the Toshiba awards ceremony.
Jim looks about the same now as then, unlike Fred or his Dad for that matter. (Gotcha Dad!)
Bob used to e-mail stories to Fred about us "Bandits" - this is one of Fred's favorites:
WEDNESDAY AUG 2000. ONLY 8 BANDITS SHOW UP FOR GOLF AT JUPITER DUNES, SO WE PLAY A 2 TEAM 4 BALL SCRAMBLE. CAPTAINS ARE MERRIL STENBOM AND BOB LONGMORE. THIS INCIDENT WAS RELATED TO US AFTER THE MATCH.
ON THE 13TH TEE, BARRY MCGEE HITS HIS TEE SHOT AND BREAKS OFF HIS LEFT FOOT AT THE ANKLE . MERRIL HAS A CART AND DRIVES BARRY UP TO THE CHOSEN BALL. BARRY TAKES HIS SHOTS TO FINISH THE HOLE. BARRY THEN USED THE CART TO RETURN TO THE CLUB HOUSE PARKING LOT AND GET HIS SPARE PROSTHETIC LEG. HE HAD LOST THE LEG IN NAM WHEN HIS HELICOPTER WAS SHOT DOWN. HE THEN RETURNED TO THE 14TH HOLE AND THE TEAM FINISHED THE MATCH.
WHEN THE OTHER TEAM HEARD WHAT HAPPENED THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT BARRY, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, CRIED FOUL. YOU CAN'T REPLACE A BROKEN LEG IN THE MIDDLE OF A MATCH. THE PROTEST FELL ON DEAF EARS AND WE PAID THE SWINE THEIR MONEY. THIS IS JUST A SMALL EXAMPLE OF HOW COMPETITIVE THE BANDITS ARE WHEN THEY PLAY THE GAME.
BOB
- I remember this well as I was walking with Barry that day. Barry turned to me and said , matter of factly, "I just broke my leg"....I was shocked at the moment because I was new to the Bandits at the time and didn't really realize that Barry had a prosthetic leg!!..:) ...couldn't figure out how a guy could break a leg just walking down the fairway!!
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