Introducing Football Hell 2022

Diving right back in to Kansas Football five years later

Aug 26, 2022

We are, on this day, only a week away from the kickoff of the 2022 season for the Kansas Jayhawks (it is a Friday night home opener again). Through a series of cosmic circumstances, I have found myself again in Lawrence this fall, and despite (and to an extent prompted by) this frustratingly ever-shifting landscape upon which college football has found itself, I’m again prepared to throw myself into these Fall Saturdays.

I’ve just made my first entry over at footballhell.substack.com, regarding the version of Football Hell I wrote on back in 2017, as well as my goals for this upcoming blog. I’m running it through Substack, which means you should be able to easily subscribe via e-mail if you’d like it in your inbox every week (I’m aiming for posts each Monday). I’m aiming to have the second entry posted by the end of today as well (though I won’t update Things What I Wrote with new Football Hell entries after this one, fair warning, so subscribe today!)

Football Hell 2022

Welcome Back to Football Hell

I was very intoxicated and on a cruise ship on one of the final days of 2016 when I had the idea to put together a book. Or at least something similar to a book, involving the amount of writing which would go into a book even if it never got printed as a book, inspired by the essays I’d been reading for a nonfiction creative writing class I had taken in…

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