Life
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The Quitting Card
I was nine years old the first time I quit. The reason that I left Little League football was not that I didn’t want to play. I did. I mean, I had the usual football heroes like Roger Staubach and Archie Manning which likely reflects my age and NFL geographical viewing area more than anything else. I also followed Lynn Swann. The real reason I quit football at the mature age of nine was to punish my dad for being a chronic alcoholic. Although he would eventually stop drinking within the year, he was still living life as a sloppy and mostly angry drunk. And for some odd reason, I…