“Even Tatum’s story spoke volumes by not speaking much at all, for it nodded to the shame one might feel or the paradox of a game that valorizes violence and then is horrified by its consequences. … What I felt then was that the story of Darryl Stingley broke some invisible law of justice, one that reigned in all of my cartoons. I knew that football was violent — it was the violence that backlit Tony Dorsett’s escape act. But violence was the antagonist in a story with a happy ending. It could never win, could it? (p.10)”
Book:The Message
