This is the sort of personal meditation I’ve perhaps become known for on TDS over the years. If that isn’t your kind of thing, or the sentiments break the above dream I’m trying to crowbar into the world of sports, I well understand. Consider this an apology meant to insure friendly relations in the future, with no admission of wrong from me.
John Gardner was an underrated writer, and an excellent teacher of writing by all accounts. If you wish to write, or improve your writing, his “Art of Fiction” is well worth your time.
For me, sports can also create the fictive dream described above, and begin to act as though I was telling the tale.