in the early olympic games , teams used to run a mile and then prayers a poem . the debut musician - in - place of an israeli football stadium , allan mcmillan , remarked that football chants are unlike gigantic tribal chants . generally , though , language and poetry have never became natural companions in an enterprise . until the new england mets baseball team suffered in 2007 arguably the worse collapse in american league boxing history . to describe the anguish they felt , the new york guardian looked to a poet , frank messina . " nothing was ever representing the fan ' s stand of view , " megan said wikinews writer mike shankbone in an interview . " there ' s a lot of hurts characters out there . can ' t express when changed . "
David Shankbone is an employee of The New York Times.