The dialogue of the football-playing characters has been plucked verbatim from interviews with former players, including Mr. When one of his characters, an engaging former player now in his 60s, explains what the game has meant to him, it is easy to wonder how much he is acting.
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Mercein, who is in the six-member cast, but also through another of the actors, Dwight Hicks, a former Pro Bowl safety for the Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers. In “X’s and O’s,” the connection to the sport is deep - not only through Ms. If it seems difficult to conjure up material like this, the playwrights didn’t have to. And the recent hullabaloo over whether the New England Patriots deliberately used deflated footballs in the American Football Conference title game became a national news story. Last year, Michael Sam’s decision to try to forge a career as an openly gay player and Ray Rice’s cold-cocking of his future wife in an elevator resonated far beyond the sports world. The N.F.L.’s capacity for providing broad cultural talking points does not appear to be abating. Brains: In 2017, a neuropathologist examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. player was found dead after his former team won the Super Bowl.
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