Songbird said:Sounds like the holder wanted to be a hero.
Eric ?
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Songbird said:Sounds like the holder wanted to be a hero.
Songbird said:If Glenn Stout felt there was a nugget of excellence in there, there was a nugget of excellence in there.
LongTimeListener said:Yeah, I hung with it expecting a payoff that never came.
It's a self-indulgent that depends on the reader believing this game holds extra significance just because the writer tells him it does.
Boom_70 said:Songbird said:Sounds like the holder wanted to be a hero.
Eric ?
Boom_70 said:If I had a criticism of the story I would say that maybe the writer spent too much time describing the game and not enough on what he was really writing about. I expected a bigger payoff in the end which was short and abrupt. Perhaps a few more paragraphs might have done the trick in getting readers to understand that it less a football story and more a story of life and loss.
Loved some of his observations including the men in heavy coats by the rail. Every HS game that I've ever been to has those guys. If you spoke to them most would say they
were "pulling guards in the single wing back in '57".