For myself and many of you reading, our childhood memories are etched in vacant lots. A gathering place for the neighborhood kids to play, those lots played the stage for games of everything from freeze tag to our group’s personal favorite: backyard tackle football.
For those games of football, all of us sought to emulate the feats of athleticism we saw our favorite players display on Sundays. If you were running down a deep ball, you were Randy Moss, striding out and basket-catching the ball at just the right moment. If you were the all-time quarterback, you were Brett Favre, rifling the ball no matter if you were chucking the ball up and deep with all your might or your target was eight feet to your left for a screen pass.