Fathers & Sons & Sports (2008)
Fathers & Sons & Sports
“Lou Golic worked as a bricklayer in Willowick, Ohio. He was a former Marine, with thick forearms and calloused hands. To me, all of five years old, he was the strongest, toughest man in the whole world. He was also my hero.
“If you play football, you’re gonna get punched, okay?” he told his wide-eyed eleven-year-old son. “You’ll get kicked, scratched up, bitten. You’re gonna bleed, and you’re gonna break bones.”
My brother was floored. Dad had played for a year in college at Indiana and then fo...r several seasons in places like Montreal and Saskatchewan with the Canadian Football League, but all of that had happened in another world, far away from our suburban home in Ohio, long before any of us—Bob, my other brother, Greg, or me—were around. Maybe the game is different now, we thought. Maybe he’s trying to scare us. Maybe something awful happened in Canada. Undaunted, we all suited up and took to the practice fields in town, where Dad coached us for St. Mary Magdalene in the CYO league.MoreLess
“If you play football, you’re gonna get punched, okay?” he told his wide-eyed eleven-year-old son. “You’ll get kicked, scratched up, bitten. You’re gonna bleed, and you’re gonna break bones.”
My brother was floored. Dad had played for a year in college at Indiana and then fo...r several seasons in places like Montreal and Saskatchewan with the Canadian Football League, but all of that had happened in another world, far away from our suburban home in Ohio, long before any of us—Bob, my other brother, Greg, or me—were around. Maybe the game is different now, we thought. Maybe he’s trying to scare us. Maybe something awful happened in Canada. Undaunted, we all suited up and took to the practice fields in town, where Dad coached us for St. Mary Magdalene in the CYO league.MoreLess
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