The poetry of football

[Stanley Lombardi]

 

For reasons unfathomable, football doesn't usually lend itself to poetry.  Baseball does, and boxing did.  But here, straight from the heart of our very own Dion Dawkins, is a rare sighting of some first-rate football poetry.  Enjoy:

 

"We have to play as one fist, one unit, one step, one sound," Dion Dawkins said. 

[Buffalo716]

19 minutes ago, Blue on Blue said:

 

For reasons unfathomable, football doesn't usually lend itself to poetry.  Baseball does, and boxing did.  But here, straight from the heart of our very own Dion Dawkins, is a rare sighting of some first-rate football poetry.  Enjoy:

 

"We have to play as one fist, one unit, one step, one sound," Dion Dawkins said. 

 

Football is very poetic what are you talking about.

 

every play is exactly what Dion Dawkins said.. All 11 players, working in cohesion, 1 heartbeat, 1 step,1 goal

 

thats football brotha! And poetry in motion!

[WhoTom]

47 minutes ago, Blue on Blue said:

"We have to play as one fist, one unit, one step, one sound, one Buffalo," Dion Dawkins said. 

 

Seems appropriate to add that.

 

 

 

[White Linen]

I thought he'd get one of the captain spots. 

[Fadingpain]

Here's to you, Dion.

 

 

[Mickey]

With apologies to Grantland Rice and Red Grange:

 

There are shapes now moving,
Two Ghosts that drift and glide,
And which of them to tackle
Each rival must decide.
They shift with spectral swiftness
Across the swarded range,
And one of them’s a shadow,
And one of them is Grange McCoy