I am so glad that I was able to meet Rocky Arroyo in 2008 and on subsequent occasions at NMAA State Tournament banquets and at NMAA headquarters where we worked together on a long interview of his life and times. His easy going manner and patience as we talked for more than an hour on at least three occasions made the interviews pleasurable. The material I collected enabled me to write the nomination for the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame, and was I tickled when he was elected to that body that includes some of his great friends, I'm sure, as well as Tommy McDonald, the NFL running back who played for Highland High against Rocky with Our Lady of Sorrows winning by two points after playing three games in thirty hours. The other two opponents were St. Mary's and Albuquerque High. I never saw Rocky's teams play...I was but 14 in 1951, but my best friend, Tobias Duran, now a Ph.D., at UNM, who sat in on one of the interviews as the Director of Regional Studies at UNM, was able to attend. In fact, Tobias, my next door neighbor, and classmate at Ernie Pyle Jr. High in the South Valley, walked from the school to Highland High to see the big game against McDonald and Company. Tobias and I both read the Journal even in junior high, and followed closely, both pulling for the Mustangs against Albuquerque schools, especially Highland.