The Five (Pro Football Novels)

Football. Literature. And a little Vonnegut thrown in. So it goes.

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I. Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

One evening at the turn of the 21st century, the author Kurt Vonnegut, then 77 years old, was doing a very American thing in the most Vonnegutia…