Tag Archives: Football

Maybe the Gulfs Will Wash Us Down

By Robin Bates | Published: February 8, 2014

Peyton Manning was not Homer’s Odysseus but Tennyson’s Ulysses.

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Seahawks: Unleashed, Endlessly Hungry

By Robin Bates | Published: February 3, 2014

Mary Oliver’s poem about hunting hawks about sums up last night’s Super Bowl.

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Is Peyton Manning Pitted against Puck?

By Robin Bates | Published: February 1, 2014

Tomorrow’s Super Bowl drama may be forces of order vs. forces of chaos. Or it may involve Denver trying to outwit a trickster Puck-like team.

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Zeus Predicts that Broncos Will Win

By Robin Bates | Published: January 21, 2014

A passage in the Odyssey forecasts that Peyton Manning will win the Super Bowl.

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Mourning the Colts’ Loss

By Robin Bates | Published: January 14, 2014

The Indianapolis Colts’ playoff loss brings to mind a childhood poem, “Noonday Sun,” about losing a colt. Peyton Manning can also be regarded as a lost colt.

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Mowgli Upsets Cincinnati Bengals

By Robin Bates | Published: January 7, 2014

The Cincinnati Bengals losing to San Diego is like Shere Khan losing to Mowgli.

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Eagles Prepare a Thunderbolt

By Robin Bates | Published: January 4, 2014

The Philadelphia Eagles bring to mind Tennyson’s eagle, falling like a thunderbolt.

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The Return of King Peyton

By Robin Bates | Published: December 28, 2013

The excitement over Peyton Manning is like that of the townspeople for Thorin Oakenshield in “The Hobbit.”

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Reflecting upon Football’s Carnage

By Robin Bates | Published: December 21, 2013

What may be the greatest poem about American football focuses on its violence.

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