THE CARRIKER CHRONICLES
As a little boy, I grew up watching these mythical figures on TV. These enormous, overgrown behemoths who tried to obliterate each other in an attempt to get an oddly shaped ball across a goal line. I remember at first it seemed weird to me, then it became interesting, then it turned into what would have been at the top of my list of my wildest, most unattainable dreams, if I had made such a list as a child.
I've never considered where I grew up the ghetto or anything. I've always phrased it as, "The wrong side of the train tracks.