Jo Craven McGinty Writes About NFL Cleats for the Wall Street Journal, and Thus a Poem is Born

Ms. McGinty crunches numbers for the Wall Street Journal. She can also count backwards from 100 in Esperanto. 

Grass fields don’t present the same hazard because the natural surface can tear away before an injury occurs, but artificial turf may grip a cleat without letting go, causing limbs to twist in unexpected and potentially harmful ways.    Jo Craven McGinty writing for the Wall Street Journal. 

On football fields the cry remains:

"That phony turf gives us the pains!"

"Our cleats prefer the grass so green,

and not some stuff made by machine!"

For cleats keep football players nimble,

and has always been a symbol

of their prowess and their speed,

and bermudagrass is what they need.

Sly AstroTurf and all its ilk

may seem to be as smooth as silk.

But it will hold a cleat in place

and rob a player of his grace.

So give the players fescue, please,

to stop them falling on their knees.

If that don't work, perhaps hot air

will keep them upright, fair and square.

  

"Dang football players get more attention than a baby."