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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NUTTY SEASON, by WILLIAM A. PHELON First Line: Who are the football champions? Who are the Last Line: For which is best when all the best were tumbled, tossed, and whaled? Subject(s): Football | |||
WHO are the football champions? Who are the matchless knights Entitled to assume the crown of brightest gridiron lights? The greatest critics of them all could study all the teams, And see more crazy mixups than they'd view in opium dreams! For each team walloped some one else and in turn was downed, Each conqueror was at the top, then battered to the ground— For A beat B, and B beat C, then C just murdered A, Enough complexity to turn a football student gray! Consistency was tossed away, and standard playing form Would sparkle just a little while, then sink before the storm! The man who thinks he knows the best—that bozo should be jailed, For which is best when all the best were tumbled, tossed, and whaled? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR THE DEATH OF VINCE LOMBARDI by JAMES DICKEY AFTER THE LAST PRACTICE; GRINNELL, IOWA, NOVEMBER 1941 by EDWARD HIRSCH SAY GOODBYE TO BIG DADDY by RANDALL JARRELL AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO by JAMES WRIGHT THE GLORIOUS TOUCHDOWN by GEORGE ADE THE LINE MEN by WILLIAM ROSE BENET FIGHT! (HARVARD-DARTMOUTH FOOTBALL GAME, 1908) by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE |
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