LONDON — His father thinks he’s nuts. As in: Seriously, Matt? You’re going to take the four-hour train ride south from Hessle to London for this?
Matt understands. His father is a rugby loyalist and prideful man who played the sport and thinks American football is a just silly offshoot. That’s what Matt used to think, too. Why lie about it? Who were these players? Why did so many people in that other country care? He wondered, and then one afternoon he turned on the television for fun.
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The purple and gold team was playing the gold and black team. There were lots of starts and lots of stops, and the
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