Ever wonder what happened to Jack and Diane?

[ChoralScholar]

http://www.sportspickle.com/news/68/jackie-still-thinks-hes-gonna-be-a-football-star

Jack, the Indiana high schoolfootballplayer who was brought to fame by John Mellencamp’s 1982 hit song “Jack & Diane,” stillclaims he’s gonna be afootballstar, despite being 43 years old and out of the game for two decades.


“Mellencamp said it best – ‘oh yeah, life goes on; long after the thrill of livin is gone,’” said Jack. “I’ve definitely done a lot of living since ’82.”


Jack was a 16-year old junior quarterback on his high school team in 1982 when Mellencamp penned the song about him and his girlfriend, Diane. He was set to take over as the starting quarterback in his senior season, 1983, and achievefootball greatness.


“Jack had a cannon for an arm,” said Jim Dalrymple, Jack’s high school coach. “His potential was limitless. We expected to win districts with him at the reigns in 1983 and take a run at states. But he just threw it all away.”


Less than six weeks after “Jack & Diane” hit No. 1 on the charts, Jack found out Diane was pregnant.


“Diane was the debutante of the backseat of my car,” said Jack. “Sometimes we’d run off behind a shady tree. I’d dribble off her Bobby Brooks and she’d let me do what I please. Life went on, but spending too much time in the backseat of my car and behind shady trees got her pregnant.”

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http://www.sportspickle.com/news/68/jackie-still-thinks-hes-gonna-be-a-football-star

[tigereye]

1. huh, interesting- this song always makes me think of a couple I knew in

high school - who spent too much time getting high, robbed a store of some sort of impulse and ended up pregnant, jailed and then married too young. Kinda sad, actually. :(

[Locrian]

3. was that billy joe and bobbie sue?

Those two young lovers with nothin better to do?
Than sit around the house, get high, and watch the tube?
And here is what happened when they decided to cut loose?


I last heard they were down in El Paso.....

[here_is_to_hope]

4. Its been updated...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP08d4ruZ0g&feature=fvsr

[tigereye]

7. that's right, maybe that was the one...

[gratuitous]

2. I'm still wondering about Brenda and Eddie

You know, the king and the queen of the prom.

[Bucky]

5. Her parents were Paul and Paula

[flvegan]

6. Nobody EVER wonders about Tommy and Gina.

And they were just Livin' on a Prayer.