Looking for Daylight: An American Football Story

On December 14, 1975, I was a nine-year-old kid lying on the gold

shag carpet of my parents’ home in Hugo, Oklahoma, watching

the Miami Dolphins play the Baltimore Colts, on a damp, chilly,

and memorably foggy day along Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay.

Nearly a year earlier, Terry Creacy, a classmate of mine