<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=552934" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Football games are neat,</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Giants run the field, <br>Crushing Earth beneath them, <br>Atlas would be proud.<br>Holding the hopes of city states <br>On their backs.<br>In a flurry of flags twirled over head <br>These warriors of the gridiron <br>Trounce each other, <br>Battling with helmets that <br>Knights would be proud of</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Balls are kicked into play<br>Play clocks run, <br>Plays are run, <br>Running backs <br>Cup balls as though<br>Rolling dough for chocolate chip cookies, <br>That fans eat.<br>Each play is dissected by: <br>Head, offensive, defensive, coaches<br>Orders are called in from red phones<br>As if the president ordered a pizza from batman, <br>Plus wings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Football games are neat, <br>As cardinals perch on spring tree branches<br>Waiting for a worm to surface, to eat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Football games, like fantasy leagues, <br>Are the paradigmatic American experience.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The opening play is called after a gamble, <br>Teams flip and vie for position. <br>The time begins—it is neat—<br>Like on Christmas day, like a ribbon tied about <br>Our favorite childhood gift; a spectacle <br>To marvel at, once opened, <br>The toy only played with only once, <br>To be discarded, but it was nice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Football games have: timeouts, <br>Red flags for challenges, <br>Yellow flags for do over, <br>Yet somehow, someone wins.<br>The score is tallied, and <br>We have a winner and of course a loser.<br>These games we play. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course there are second chances, <br>There are Cinderella teams; <br>They dance around defenses and steel wall offenses, <br>Fields of ballrooms, <br>Fantasies, where glass slippers are slipped gently<br>On feet to make dreams come true.<br>Underdogs that rise from the insurmountable.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">America is full of fantasy.<br>Between the exuberance of victory<br>And destitution of defeat, <br>Somehow we find tomorrow, <br>Unscathed. <br>Things are wrapped up neatly.<br>On a field of dreams, <br>There is a winner and a loser, <br>Even in the agony of defeat, <br>There is yet another tomorrow, <br>Another season, <br>Another day where champions can prevail.<br>There are always second chances, <br>There is always the play clock to mark beginnings <br>And ends, and there is always someone to sound the trumpet<br>Beaconing us to try again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hakeem+Rahim">Hakeem Rahim</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=552934" data-title="Football games are neat, de Hakeem Rahim" data-description="Giants run the field, Crushing Earth beneath them, Atlas would be proud. Holding the hopes of city states On their backs. In a flurry of flags twirled over head These warriors of the gridiron Trounce each other, Battling with helmets that K..."></div> </div> </div>

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