Esperanza’s Pendleton emerging as quote machine
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Where does truth end and exaggeration begin? It’s sometimes hard to tell with Bill Pendleton, Esperanza’s football coach who’s pictured in the red shirt on the right with his offensive linemen in 2005. Twice last week he said some things that were, well, quotable:
From the Orange County Register, on his team’s upset loss a year ago to Newport Harbor: ‘We were walking out of there and people are spitting on us and calling us names. Old ladies in wheelchairs were flipping us off ... The guys have been waiting a year for this game.’
Old ladies in wheelchairs in Newport Beach? Maybe they were just frustrated Espy fans.
From The Daily Pilot on being a teammate with Newport Coach Jeff Brinkley, who was a quarterback at Cerritos College in the early 1970s while Pendleton was a tight end: ‘He was the Joe Namath of Norwalk.’
It will be interesting to hear what Pendleton, who was the Mike Ditka of Studebaker Road, has to say after his 14th-ranked Aztecs play host to No. 23 Edison in a Sunset League game Friday at Placentia Valencia High.
- Martin Henderson
-- Image by Karen Tapia-Andersen/Los Angeles Times