It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.
To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.
The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.
In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.
Old #64 chose... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.
We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.
