Violation (2016)
“play meant more than ball. We played all kinds of games, many centered on running. When we were very young, we played Crocodile in the wading pool—one child crawling through the shallows with teeth bared, the others flailing in rapturous terror. Later we invented Monster, a frenzied combination of chase and tag. Summer meant vicious games of Red Rover in the sunny field, filling the quiet afternoon with laconic calls and bone-jarring thuds.
In the days when there was no such thing as exercise, ...the game I loved best was football. It was a brutal, gleeful game, best played in winter mud as sharp-edged as sheet metal. The mob mind prevailed—sometimes we just called the game tackle-pile-on. The bottom was the best place to be, as it was often better to be chased than to chase, better to splash away, shrieking, better to be caught, to be out, to be free.
Balls were just an excuse for the dirt and the running: football, kickball, tetherball, softball, dodgeball—the ball itself didn’t matter much.MoreLess
In the days when there was no such thing as exercise, ...the game I loved best was football. It was a brutal, gleeful game, best played in winter mud as sharp-edged as sheet metal. The mob mind prevailed—sometimes we just called the game tackle-pile-on. The bottom was the best place to be, as it was often better to be chased than to chase, better to splash away, shrieking, better to be caught, to be out, to be free.
Balls were just an excuse for the dirt and the running: football, kickball, tetherball, softball, dodgeball—the ball itself didn’t matter much.MoreLess
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