Great Moments in Journalism: Stick To LeRoy Neiman Metaphors
Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Okay, kids, end of the week, we'll throw a poll up later in the day. For now, your final Moment. It comes from an ESPN story about Holley Mangold, the football playing high school girl who happens to be a sister of Jets center Nick Mangold. That's not important, what you're looking for here is the picture painted by writer Greg Garber:
Rain tumbles from the slate sky and the breath of the players, sporadic wisps of vapor, drifts from behind their face masks. The mud has turned their yellow football jerseys into a canvas dominated by Jackson Pollock splashes of sepia.
We imagine it looking a lot like our bathroom did after we read this.