Brenner also talked to a German reporter about the story and was interviewed for radio shows in Denver and Kansas City. It's something right out of one of those lusty potboiler novels. Brenner was also quoted about grand juries in the Dallas Morning News and the Orlando Sentinel . The New York Times asked the question and consulted Joseph Pici , English professor and expert in sports literature, for some answers. In part, football is brutal while baseball, for example, is not, he said.
Baseball comes out of a kind of pastoral myth.
It's set in a springlike environment. The season begins in fall, when things start to die. In football, there's a rush to complete the game. It's the whole idea of sudden death. The visceral, hard knocks.