The player depicted in Arnold Adoff's poem truly loves the game. Adoff's use of words gives clear indication of that. The

Linemen indeed "live in a closed world"(1). I can vouch due to the fact that I am a lineman. Linemen receive no glory at the end of the game when they are the most important component of the success of the team. You have to really love the game to be a linemen because you can't be doing in for the fame, because there is none! As lineman we "maintain...attack...suffer repetition for years and years."(9-10) To go through all of that you have to be one of two things: in love with the game or insane. I know I endure all of that pain for the camaraderie and the love of "the game". The author himself is or was obviously a lineman. One has to really experience of being a lineman to express one's emotions about that particular position. That position is more than

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Approximate Word count = 511
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)