Barry Kemelhor wrote Washington cornerback Mike Bass a note in 1971 and received an improbable reply. Fifty-one years later, he returned the favor.
“We would see Brig Owens, Pat Fischer and Ken Houston up there, and we’d think, ‘Mike needs to be part of this,” Maury said recently, referencing the other members of the greatest secondary in franchise history. “Almost every game, we’d make an aside that Mike should be up there, too.”
“When we became great Redskins fans in the ’60s, it was all about offense, but we couldn’t stop anybody,” Maury said. “[Vince] Lombardi comes, our defense gets better and we notice there’s this guy playing cornerback that we’d never heard of. We fell in love with Mike because he was this unassuming guy that no one was paying attention to.”
“He said, ‘I loved your note. I really appreciated it,’” Kemelhor, 70, recalled. “Then he said that he’d like for me and my friends to come over to his house for dinner, because he’d like to meet us and thank us in person.”to the 49ers in San Francisco, Maury and Kemelhor found themselves accompanying Bass on a trip to Waxie Maxie’s record store so he could do some belated Christmas shopping before dinner.
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