I watched it rain for three days long. The door closed. I was alone. This wasn’t going to happen. No more having the heart, oh my heart, yanked up and tugged down by the sight of the sun, the feel of it on my skin, and how dull and blue the sky should be. No. Things were going to be different this time. Things are still the same.
It’s Week Eleven in the NFL. In this episode, the Texans are trying to throw themselves into the bye week conversation and knock the AFC South lepers off their boots, Nick Foles climbing out of the cave and rising to lead the Jacksonville Jaguars, Dak Prescott having a Tony Romo loss of his own, and, Carson Wentz trying to recreate his Super Bowl win against the New England Patriots.