Strange dream
Aug. 10th, 2007 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridloreYeah, fever dreams and all that, but this one was odd.
I was a NFL running back, and one of the best of all time. But I hated it. I had played college ball for the free education, and had entered the draft because it was expected of me, picked first by the Chicago Bears (I don't even know who would have had the first pick in 1988) and proceeded to run wild, but all the time I didn't fit in. In the dream I suffered from terrible shyness, and hated the attention; but felt obligated to my teammates and fans to keep playing.
At the end of my career, I was the career leader in yards and touchdowns by a running back. A double handful of MVPs, SuperBowl rings, and ProBowl selections. And I couldn't wait to dump it all in Lake Michigan and get away.
The last bit I remember is being told that I've been elected to the Hall of Fame and almost screaming into the phone that I was finally free of football and i wasn't going to take part. The line I remember is "Put me in your hall, leave me out, whatever. I am not part of this anymore!"
Pretty strange.
I was a NFL running back, and one of the best of all time. But I hated it. I had played college ball for the free education, and had entered the draft because it was expected of me, picked first by the Chicago Bears (I don't even know who would have had the first pick in 1988) and proceeded to run wild, but all the time I didn't fit in. In the dream I suffered from terrible shyness, and hated the attention; but felt obligated to my teammates and fans to keep playing.
At the end of my career, I was the career leader in yards and touchdowns by a running back. A double handful of MVPs, SuperBowl rings, and ProBowl selections. And I couldn't wait to dump it all in Lake Michigan and get away.
The last bit I remember is being told that I've been elected to the Hall of Fame and almost screaming into the phone that I was finally free of football and i wasn't going to take part. The line I remember is "Put me in your hall, leave me out, whatever. I am not part of this anymore!"
Pretty strange.
