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Here is the excerpt from Grandpa Jack's that inspired this part of the story: 

"The sixth grade was in East Rome, a really tough part of town. Our teacher, Miss

O’Brien, was so terrified of us that she brought games for us to amuse ourselves so we wouldn’t kill her. We had a cinder covered play field and the most popular game was having everyone line up at one end of the field and one person would charge from the other end into the lineup hoping to survive another day. We called it football."

I had zero luck finding images of cinder-covered fields, so I didn't include that part. Have any of you ever heard of that before?