In this song I always took it as he had lost a son in the football game. Just speculating of course but he obviously lost something when those 5A bastards ran a shallow cross." A boys last dream and a man's first loss."
@timothy102 I might be personalizing this a bit but I always took it to be that high school football was "a boy's last dream and a man's first loss," meaning that in the eyes of a now older man who is experiencing loss in his current life, he remembers when that last high school football game ended. Being done playing the game (perhaps his dream as a boy) may have been his first loss as he finished high school and became a man. Now, in the throes of loss in his later life he is viewing a high...
@timothy102 I might be personalizing this a bit but I always took it to be that high school football was "a boy's last dream and a man's first loss," meaning that in the eyes of a now older man who is experiencing loss in his current life, he remembers when that last high school football game ended. Being done playing the game (perhaps his dream as a boy) may have been his first loss as he finished high school and became a man. Now, in the throes of loss in his later life he is viewing a high school football game and remembering that he first learned about loss when his high school football career (and childhood) ended.
In this song I always took it as he had lost a son in the football game. Just speculating of course but he obviously lost something when those 5A bastards ran a shallow cross." A boys last dream and a man's first loss."
@timothy102 I might be personalizing this a bit but I always took it to be that high school football was "a boy's last dream and a man's first loss," meaning that in the eyes of a now older man who is experiencing loss in his current life, he remembers when that last high school football game ended. Being done playing the game (perhaps his dream as a boy) may have been his first loss as he finished high school and became a man. Now, in the throes of loss in his later life he is viewing a high...
@timothy102 I might be personalizing this a bit but I always took it to be that high school football was "a boy's last dream and a man's first loss," meaning that in the eyes of a now older man who is experiencing loss in his current life, he remembers when that last high school football game ended. Being done playing the game (perhaps his dream as a boy) may have been his first loss as he finished high school and became a man. Now, in the throes of loss in his later life he is viewing a high school football game and remembering that he first learned about loss when his high school football career (and childhood) ended.