football players, a recollection:

this one football player sat in front of me in english class and was like “what is your favorite movie?” and i said “i don’t know, is lord of the rings a good movie?” and he said, “if you like lord of the rings, you like lord of the rings” in a reassuring way and i felt better

one football player had assigned seating next to me during graduation, he was like “i love physics!” and showed me that he was reading a book called “einstein’s dream”

one football player told me he had a teacher named “lillyan” in second grade who would whip him

one football player who also played double bass got locked in the bus’s bathroom as our orchestra was on the way to hershey’s park, we had to pull over on the highway to get him out through the roof