Best Gridiron Poems

Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct, 
a stitched...

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Pittsburgh, hammertown, Chuck Knoll and his boys
established the best Superbowl Era dynasty
with the "Steel Curtain" defense and the "Blonde Bomber" Bradshaw,
a defense disciplined on shrapnel...

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Summer's nearly over,
Fall's around the bend;
Fire up the family grill,
Football's back again!

Call up Uncle Benny,
Bring Aunt Lucy too;
Don't forget the "doggies",
We've got lots of brew!

Popcorn's...

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Gridiron gods
Pacing in emerald-floored coliseums 
Waking wounded warriors 
Painted on sacred Sunday mornings
Grizzled generals 
Directing drives of galloping glory
Battering bastions of blitzkrieg behemoths 
Crouched in...

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The Roman administrators came for the wealth of our worship
demanding that I crack the church's coffers wide open
for their needs, for the Empire's desperate embellishments,
in...

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Dedicated to the 2000 National College Football Champions, the Oklahoma Sooners 

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Over fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan
Watched and reveled in...

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Just because we wish it so, means not that it will pass;
this lesson’s one we all must learn in the Gamecock class. 
Runs my blood,...

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Opposing players join the gridiron in the valley of the sun
They feel the tension of the battle that is yet to come.

A calm then descends...

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One summer I fell in love with Popeyes chicken and Barqs root beer.
Lusted over a Mexican rose in the flat. Upstairs.
In the daytime I moved...

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Peasants of the Playbook

You’re peasants of the playbook
Yet you think you know the reason
For the failure of the team
That does the best it can this...

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The front of Fall,
When ice is close, 
As the season ends,
     That's Baseball.

On home ice
The puck is shot and scored,
 ...

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Soft spoken like Charmin
The earth is down to you
You'd sacrifice the clothes off your body
in a winter storm
Forever putting yourself out of the photo
Loyal to...

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It was 1988 
And things seemed great 
I walked off the stage 
With a degree at the right age 

There were changes abound 
As I...

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I believe, 
			therefore I breathe
			the collective id down at
			the mall.
			
			Salvation in the actions of
			our gridiron greats,
			our pro golfers,
			our game show cops,
			our East Village actors,
			our runway...

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HUT-20-19-39!!! Hut!
Between the quarterback and walls
of solid muscles, breath it stalls,
defensive backs are rushing for
the aiming pass, an act of war

exploding gridiron, what a mess,
the...

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