LAFAYETTE, La. — An automatic lift, positioned behind the end zone and raised 30 feet above the field, gave Bill Napier the perspective of a press box.
His 400-pound electric wheelchair may have prevented the normal climb to the apex of a high school football stadium, but it did not restrict his favorite hobby—calling offensive plays. So, seated in that wheelchair, high on that lift, Napier whispered his favorite plays into the microphone attached to his headset.
“Thirty-six Veer,” and when he felt like mixing it up, “74 Red Cadillac,” or the risky but often successful “34 reverse.