football

Simple

It’s like everything in football – and life. You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. It’s very simple in the end.    Johan Cruyff Hendrik… Read More ›

Ruining

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers. Merle Kessler Merle Kessler is a writer, humorist, and performer, best known perhaps by his pen name, Ian Shoales. As Ian Shoales he has… Read More ›

Truth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes,… Read More ›

Marshall – Speech

Commemorating a great tragedy, and how a school, a town and individuals coped with it. The movie “We Are Marshal”. In November, 1970, virtually the entire football team and coaches of Marshall University (Huntington, W.V.) die in a plane crash…. Read More ›