Hyacinth

it was a legal tackle– it’s not as if football is a dangerous sport, sure you have your injuries, but it’s not like boxing where the guys walk around brain-damaged, or look at hockey, they have more fights than goals, I mean even in skiing a non-contact sport you fall, you get hurt, or your knees don’t last past thirty it was a legal tackle– Boomer was running with the ball it was twelve-seven we really needed this game and I knew I could take him we played in college together it was just a quirk a freak accident that his neck snapped like that– it wasn’t my fault it wasn’t because of how or where I hit him __ Apollo and his best friend, Hyacinth, were engaged in a friendly contest to see who could throw the discus farther. Apollo’s throw hit Hyacinth in the forehead and killed him.