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Recent News: "In the End Zone?"
Posted on Sun, Feb. 05, 2006
BY CHUCK FREDERICK Duluth News Tribune
Burgeoning bard tackles football
In a green-and-gold room, with his feet
resting on a Packers rug -- and with a Lombardi poster, framed Nitschke
jersey, football lamp and other memorabilia huddled around him -- Duluth's
Carl Nelson pumps out putrid poetry.
Putrid in the most complimentary
sense of the word.
"Five long
months after the season started
Super Bowl 40 will bring it to an end
With the Seahawks and the Steelers,
Being the best teams the league can send,"
he wrote in honor of today's �extra-large� game,
Super Bowl XL.
"Both teams' quarterbacks will feel the pressure
As the sack-happy Seahawks bring the heat
But containing the 'Blitzburgh' defense
Will be key for Seattle to avoid defeat."
This is by no means high-brow, wine-and-brie
poetry. Nelson produces rhymes -- or near rhymes, and in clumsy meter -- that's
geared more toward armchair quarterbacks than aficionados of the poetic arts.
But they're fan-friendly and as welcome as a bowl of nuts and a mug of Lite beer
at kickoff.
And the ditties have proven popular. For three football seasons,
Nelson recited them on a Duluth sports-talk radio show. He now e-mails them weekly
during the season to a growing list of 80 eager recipients, including me.
Next
fall, the operating room nurse and Morgan Park resident will publish his works
in a book titled "Packers �verses' Vikings, A Poetic Perspective." The volume
is to include fan photos from both sides of the Blatnik and Bong bridges.
Nelson,
despite his Packers leanings, waxes eloquently about both the green and the purple
(the gold goes both ways) -- and anything else that happens to be happening in
the NFL.
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