Clean hits, but he just kept coming back.

We knew he was the guy we had to stop.

We thought we might be able to wear him down.

He took a couple of hits, but he kept going.

He’s tough. He’s a tough, tough guy.

We still thought we might be able to do it.

That was it. It was out of our hands.

He just wore us down.

Hopefully, he can fight as hard as he did on the football field and pull through.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there’s no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he’s lying, and you’re being taken.