Jan 21
My latest essay is up at Storytellers Unplugged. Still deep in depression about the results of last night’s Packers-Giants playoff game, my thoughts inevitably turned to football fans and how we’re all alike under the facepaint. I hope you enjoy it.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:32 pm
I’ll have to check this one out.
Anything to heal the pain of the overtime loss. That was hard to handle.
One of my students is a superfan (his dad was close friends with the former coach) and he “broke a wall” at his house that night.
Oh, youth!
I am from NE and I had hoped that GB would finally stop them.
Oh well, I still have Manchester United!
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Yeah, there was no joy in Green Bay (or the rest of Wisconsin) that night. Favre had such a storybook year, it felt like it had to end in the Super Bowl. Unfortunately fate (and the Giants) had different plans.