When the Levee Breaks
September 1, 2017 12:19 PM   Subscribe

National treasure Spencer Hall's annual musings on college football. This year covering Hurricane Harvey, life amid racism, isolation within the crowd, and "an Ivy League bankruptcy case from Queens."
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln (4 comments total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
 
Damn that was strong writing.

I am not sure I was convinced of any special point, but I enjoyed reading it -- and maybe there's one reason now for me to not object to football.

Then again, a friend of my son, 13 years old, was badly concussed yeaterday and spent the night at the good gospital downtown, so when I being my perspective back down to Earth mear me, he's what I am thinking about.
posted by wenestvedt at 7:44 PM on September 1, 2017


I've never read anything quite like this. Mr. Hall has a powerful way with words. I'm on record in various places as detesting all there is about football, but I can actually get behind how Hall is using it as a symbol here of something simultaneously strong and fragile. As a symbol of committing through hard work to the perfection of an ideal. He's also a damn good storyteller.

In other business, I propose we adopt wenestvedt's "gospital" to refer to any church-run hospital.
posted by bryon at 1:29 AM on September 2, 2017 [1 favorite]


Thank you for sharing this.
posted by Barack Spinoza at 4:56 AM on September 2, 2017


...wenestvedt's "gospital" to refer to any church-run hospital.

Unintentional, but it works.
posted by wenestvedt at 5:34 AM on September 2, 2017 [1 favorite]


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