The Battle for the Badge

While Erick Carcamo and Orlando Hampton were armed with matching appetites for hard work and relentless desire, even they couldn't have imagined how fully destiny would play out their wildest fantasy. Back when Erick was growing up in the streets of Newark NJ and Orlando in Wilkinsburg PA they would pretend to coach their own professional football teams. They were always trying to run things in their neighborhoods say childhood friends. They weren’t one of those kids that would just sit back and wait for someone to come up with an idea, they always had one. Years later when they were both living in neighboring towns  they met and created a close bond between them. They would challenge each other and learned from each other enough to expand their territories from Pitt to Johnstown and Altoona, from Charleroi to Oil City they were running things tight. No one would mess with them during those days, these guys knew their stuff and what they didn’t O’ let Carc make it up and try and sell it anyway.

Over the next couple of years the two maintained a close relationship even as they moved across the globe. These guys had no fear where they went, O’ went to San Fran, NY, Delaware and DC. Carc went to Philly, India and the Philippines, these guys were conquering new lands and everything was fair game including the ladies in every port. The globe simply became smaller for them.  Unfortunately, during O’ tenure in NY a heated rivalry grew amongst these two regarding the water ways between NY and NJ. Steve Wagner a close friend and sweater vest dealer says, these guys began squabbling over everything, waterways, subways, buses, cabs and even bridges…anything that touched ground on both sides of the river was up for grabs. Capt. Kirk another long time friend who has a split personality called MASON says these two  mofo’s used to share the same stadium I don’t know where it went wrong??

It wasn’t until 2 years ago when these friends turned rivals began slapping around a little known territory up northern NY called Albany did they decide to call a truce. Since then when these two play each other there is such hype that they get more tail gators at their games than all other 5 games combined that week.

The two teams meet on the field again Sunday where they will be once again playing for the NY/NJ Port Authority Badge that has become the unofficial logo for this game.  The winning team will retain the badge until kick-off of their next meeting.  "The Badge is what matters to me, he can have the slogans and logos.  When we have the badge then we will all know who runs this town", said Carcamo.  "I'm not going to lie for the last few years I thought this was a regular NYPD badge that gave me license to just whoop on Carc's a$$ whenever I felt like it, but the symbolic nature of it is pretty cool.  I THINK I'LL KEEP IT ON SUNDAY", said "Coach O".  

Tune in this Sunday to find out, Who runs this town.