[New-Poetry] The only football poem I know

[TheOldMole]

For me Wright wins the poetry Super Bowl.

Jeff Newberry wrote:
> Gary Gildner has a poem called "First Practice."
>
>
>     FIRST PRACTICE
>
>     After the doctor checked to see
>     we weren't ruptured,
>     the man with the short cigar took us
>     under the grade school,
>     where we went in case of attack
>     or storm, and said
>     he was Clifford Hill, he was
>     a man who believed dogs
>     ate dogs, he had once killed
>     for his country, and if
>     there were any girls present
>     for them to leave now.
>
>     No one
>     left. OK, he said, he said I take
>     that to mean you are hungry
>     men who hate to lose as much
>     as I do. OK. Then
>     he made two lines of us
>     facing each other,
>     and across the way, he said,
>     is the man you hate most
>     in the world,
>     and if we are to win
>     that title I want to see how.
>     But I don't want to see
>     any marks when you're dressed,
>     he said. He said, Now.
>
>
>
> Jeff Newberry
>
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 5:34 PM, <AlMaginnes at aol.com 
> <mailto:AlMaginnes at aol.com>> wrote:
>
>     James Dickey had a poem called "In the Pocket" (which may have
>     been commissioned by the NFL) and another called "The Bee," which
>     recalled his football days at Clemson. And Randall Jarrell, I
>     think, had a poem about the death of Big Daddy Lipscomb.
>
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