Well, it’s started. In the background, our TV rumbles with the roar of the crowd watching the 49’ers play the Vikings in a pre-season performance. Football season is here.
I’m a secondary football fan. That is to say, I sit with my husband as he watches the games, but my primary activity is usually knitting, beading, reading or even writing. I’ll give my full attention to instant replays when David tells me “Take a look at this,” and from time-to-time I’ll even watch most of the game. I know enough about the sport to be conversant, to recognize teams and major players and understand some strategy and calls made (or missed) by the officials.
For this week’s prompt, use football in a short story, essay or poem or construct a football metaphor to convey an idea or emotion. Please, please share with us what you’ve come up with and I will do the same later in the week. Have fun with this one.
Victoria C. Slotto, Author 
http://davysramblings.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/football/
This is my attempt at writing something about football. It turned out completely different than what I first had in mind!
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Each fall my brothers practiced
Punt, pass and kick
Setting the tee in our yard
Arranging the ball there with
Engineering precision
Backing up, staring it down
Then running all out
Arms pumping, the satisfaction of
Boot against ball
Their boy energy transferred
To air and sky
Each day after school
They drew a line in the gravel
On the rood to our house
Cocked their arm back
And threw the ball hard
Watched it arc past elms
Across telephone lines
To land in a plume of dust
The dirt road the perfect record
Of mediocrity or progress
Each Saturday they got up early
Before chores or breakfast
To hold that football before them
Counting a rhythm in their heads
Taking two steps back, dropping
The ball, suspended, waiting
I watched it all from my bedroom window
Leather meeting leather
The ball soaring
And I envied them
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Makes me wish I had brothers, but allowed me to share in the experience. Thanks for being a part of my blog.
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Oooooh, I’m eager to do this! I’ll be back in a day or two with something (not sure what yet). Thanks so much for these weekly prompts.
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