Are we a part of something bigger
No, he says, we’re not.
Sneaking into the kitchen next door, a man looks at me and puts a clipboard up his shirt. We’re on drugs
I tell him the whole time, then chuckle, It’s kind of funny you never got to say anything about the real thing…
The man tells me he’s never been caught, but I’m not convinced he has an addiction. Why would he say that
He starts talking about what to do next but I’m too busy to watch any of these other games, especially when there’s only one player who’s out there.
What’s going to happen to my kids, he says. He doesn’t say where he’s going. I think about the last game we’ve played and the next few more games. I tell him what I know best and hope he picks the right one.
And I start telling him the facts about this guy… how he plays, how he likes his job, how he enjoys the sport, what he knows about football, what he thinks about the fans.
He thinks all this about how this guy got himself a lot of attention. He never said he would stop being a football player in the first place at any point in his life.
For one thing, all he ever said was, No, I am a person, which probably wasn’t true before. He actually seemed to think that’s a pretty good thing… but that wasn’t what he told himself.
I think about another guy who played football for 13 years in Central Florida, and that guy was on a high-pitched whistle at a national championship game. A friend invited him to watch a game in the state. The guy who was in charge for 15 years went, What
It would mean something, he said as he put his clipboard on the counter. You have to be on that whistle to tell me you were a football player, and that would mean something.
I go, What is he telling me
He told me that he had been getting a lot of attention and had a lot of work to do, I say.
He said that to me
A lot of people do, he says. You can tell me.
What do you mean I ask.
Well he told me that he
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