MEGAN GILBERT is a Brooklyn-based writer. Her stories, essays, profiles, interviews, posts, and reviews have appeared in Union Station Magazine, New York Press, Paste magazine, Deadspin, Zoom-In Online, Laughspin, the National Book Foundation’s website, and Underwater New York. She is a senior copywriter for Gawker Media and holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Megan is working on a novel. You can follow her at it-hardly-matters.tumblr.com or twitter.com/ithardlymatt3rs.
I loved football. Even though Dad had also taught me to swing a bat, field a ball, shoot free throws, block lay-ups, tee off, and do the elementary backstroke, nothing got me more excited than catching a 30-yard pass