{"id":11931,"date":"2015-07-26T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T01:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=11931"},"modified":"2020-03-27T01:32:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T08:32:53","slug":"ron-hall-was-a-friend-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2015\/07\/26\/ron-hall-was-a-friend-of-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Hall was a friend of mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cToo Tall Hall\u201d<\/h1>\n

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Ron Hall Was A Friend Of Mine<\/h1>\n

by Reviewer Rob<\/p>\n

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Ron Hall, Tight End, Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was 2 a.m. in Venice Beach one chilly November night last year with no one on the boardwalk except a lone artist painting a canvas and a skateboarder cruising down the concrete strip, sleeping bag under his arm. I walked out to the top of the sand berm at the high tide line and took a photo with my phone for Instagram. The next morning Tony, a highschool buddy from San Diego I hadn\u2019t seen in 20 years, posted a comment on it: \u201cThat\u2019s my neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

We messaged back and forth. Found out he\u2019s shacked up with a woman in L.A. who\u2019s a former lead singer. Tony and I made tentative plans to meet for a surf. A while later my phone rang. Tony wanted to get more info about what I was doing up in L.A.. Small talk drifted and we began talking about our mutual friends from when we were kids.<\/p>\n

Tony asked, \u201cRemember Ron Hall?\u201d Of course I did. Ron and his older brother Jimmy lived a few block over from me and I knew him from seventh grade until 11th grade when… [Read the whole story HERE as a member, Join HERE<\/a>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the Tampa Bay Buccaneers\u2019 website: \u201cOne of the best tight ends in Buc history and one of the most popular players during his seven seasons in Tampa Bay. Played briefly with the Lions on leaving Tampa after the 1993 season, seeing action in 19 games across two seasons in Detroit. His 209 receptions still rank 11th in franchise history and 2nd only to Jimmie Giles amongst Buc tight ends and any all-time Tampa Bay roster would have to include Hall as Giles\u2019 back-up. Famously used to walk across hot coals as his party trick when at university in Hawaii. Died in May 2007 from natural causes at his home in Costa Rica.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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