{"id":5632,"date":"2011-12-09T12:04:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T18:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=5632"},"modified":"2011-12-09T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T18:04:18","slug":"friend-of-the-sombrero-makes-appearance-in-catching-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/5632","title":{"rendered":"Friend of the Sombrero makes appearance in &#8220;Catching Hell&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nate_catching_hell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5633\" title=\"nate_catching_hell\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nate_catching_hell-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Nate Pierce as a high school sophomore<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the middle of watching &#8220;Catching Hell&#8221; for the first time the other night, I had to do a massive double-take as they showed all the Niles Renegades players&#8211;the team that Steve Bartman formerly coached&#8211;picketing in support of their coach. \u00a0As one player spoke, another emerged from the left-side of the screen on crutches; a familiar face and longtime friend and reader of The Golden Sombrero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I paused the film, turned to my girlfriend, and said, &#8220;Holy shit! That has to be Nate right there!&#8221; Quickly, I fired off a text to him hoping for confirmation. \u00a0Sure enough, Nate confirmed that he was coached by Bartman and that was him in the documentary. \u00a0Here is our exact conversation:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Me: \u00a0So dude, I&#8217;m watching &#8220;Catching Hell&#8221; and swear I saw you in it. \u00a0Am I crazy?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nate: Haha, yeah that&#8217;s me. You know he coached me, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Me: I knew it was you! Holy shit! Is that the Niles Renegades?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nate: Yeah, Niles, and he went to Notre Dame HS too. \u00a0It&#8217;s funny, I had so many people recognize me. \u00a0People at work saw it and were like, you played for Bartman?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Congratulations Nate, you&#8217;re officially famous (kind of).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Pierce as a high school sophomore In the middle of watching &#8220;Catching Hell&#8221; for the first time the other night, I had to do a massive double-take as they showed all the Niles Renegades players&#8211;the team that Steve Bartman formerly coached&#8211;picketing in support of their coach. \u00a0As one player spoke, another emerged from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,6,16,13,776,14],"tags":[2980,2981,49,289,2984,2983,2982],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5637,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632\/revisions\/5637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}