Football is

Football Is…

Forty essays and ten game-day speeches on brotherhood, masculinity, and the practice of becoming. 1. Get your copy on Amazon:...

Initiation

What is seen is spectacle: The roar of the crowd beneath the towering lights.Voices singing along to Neil Diamond’s “Sweet...

Violence

I was smaller. They were larger. I was younger. They were older. I was one. They were two. Sometimes three....

Halftime Speeches

We had a lot of hope going into the season. Then Dana—our star player, on both sides of the ball—got...

Gen X v Gen Z: The Mouthpiece

The stovetop flares circular red. Ginger sits at my feet, her tail thumping against the linoleum. I stare into the...