The imagery of this quote drew me in. The vivid colors described creates a picture of a basic football field, maybe even similar to our turf at Colby-Sawyer. Bissinger draws this beautiful picture of a calm stadium, painted with the colors of competition, but then he throws in the portion of the text describing Boobie’s exit as an injured player off the field. The addition of Boobie’s exit to the beautiful scene Bissinger writes us adds more feeling for me as a reader. The text shows how odd it is to see Boobie on the sidelines and not playing in the game. This abnormality of Boobie’s participation on the bench is just as odd as Bissinger describing the stadium as “wonderfully vivid and clean” before adding Boobie struggling to crutching off
