I just started reading a book that's been recommended to me by just about everyone. The Art of Fielding: The Novel by Chad Harbach. I suppose that it being about the sport of baseball is what's allowed me to put off picking it up. I finally picked it up. At the end of the first chapter I was hit with this:
"All his life Schwartz had yearned to possess some single transcendent talent, some unique brilliance that the world would consent to call genius. Now that he'd seen that kind of talent up close, he couldn't let it walk away."
I know exactly how Schwartz felt. I always feel blessed to see the incredible and beautiful from truly remarkable football players. Gifts that separate them from the rest.
Gale Sayers running with the football
Cris Carter catching it
Patrick Willis plugging the hole
Adrian Peterson running through it
Lawrence Taylor blitzing
Raymond Berry running routes
Randall McDaniel pulling
Jerry Kramer and Guy McIntyre too
Ed Reed gliding
Lenny Moore striding
Jerry Rice
Devin Hester returning kicks
Percy Harvin just playing football
Barry Sanders cuts
Reggie White rushing
Jonathan Ogden blocking
Warren Moon passes
Joe Montana with two minutes left
John Unitas and John Elway too
Jim Brown
Ray Lewis and Dick Butkus tackles
Deion Sanders shutting down receivers
Walter Payton
Just a few of my favorite things.
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