In the beginning of this story, Sarah Landwehr, a sensible person, and also Ken Bauer's girlfriend, the tight end/punter and class clown of the school, are arguing about Ken's ice-cream sandwich. Ken needs the sugar since he was going through a Hell Week at practice. Sarah intially pokes fun at Ken, calling him fat and round. After they completed arguing about the ice-cream sandwich, Sarah asked how his week of practice was. Big Chicago, the new stud of the defense, came up in discussion. He was an animal looking for flesh; he was insane on the football field. Rumors have it that he strikes he's prey with brass knuckles, he hits that hard. Half of the offensive team is afraid to block him. In one of the practices, when Ken was punting the ball, Chicago came at him shoved him to the ground and said, "I don't play scrimmages. I play football. You come to play against me and you'd better be ready to go to war." This guy was the real deal.
This story is quite amusing to me. The title itself is such an attention grabber, it's such and orginal topic that gets the reader thinking. The story itself is easy to understand, but Carter uses great description to describe each character, especially with Big Chicago. He uses a lot of imagery in his writing, allowing the reader to picture that character of place in their heads. The only suggestion I would have for Carter is to maybe change the title. The title only relates to the beginning of the story, which consists of a page. But, the title is very interest so maybe that's why it is what it is.
