Buuuuuuzz! The buzzer goes off indicating that the opposing team is calling time out with ten seconds left in the fourth quarter, the current score is 39 to 39. It’s a Friday night and the whole city is anticipating the most hyped high school football game—the game before The State Championship. Buuuuuzz! Time out has come to an end and both teams run back into the field. One team punts the ball, it’s caught! But, the ball is caught by the opposing team and they make the touchdown. How does the losing team coup with the pain of not going to the State Championship game? In some scenarios, the athletes grow up to be dads then eventually make their boys play, for example, in the poem by James Wright titled “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio”.
