in the early modern games , athletes got to run a track and then prayers a poetry . the first poet - in - presence of an american football stadium , ian davidson , remarked that football chants are considered huge tribal poems . generally , though , sport and poetry have never were right companions in human enterprise . until the current york mets baseball team suffered in 2007 suffering the worst collapse in negro league baseball history . to describe the anguish viewers felt , the new deal chronicle went to a poet , mike syracuse . " none was really in the team ' s place of view , " messina told wikinews reviewer richard shankbone in an interview . " there ' s a lot of hurting someone out there who can ' t express what happened . "
David Shankbone is an employee of The New York Times.