Big Time?

Yesterday I felt a bit like Joe Montana. Ok, a tiny tiny bit.
I got to the practice facility and our offensive coordinator, Coach Lee Rowland from London, produced the latest issue of the weekly German American Football Magazine. On this week’s cover of Huddle, was yours truly dropping back to pass.
The publication is not Sports Illustrated. It is printed in black and white on coarse paper, but nonetheless I did feel honored if not slightly embarrassed, to grace its cover.
About twenty minutes later as I was watching film of this week’s opponent, Munich, our head coach presented me with a piece of mail. It was addressed in German, An Hemn (attention?) Jonathan Grant C/O AFC Berlin Adler. I was puzzled but curious.
I opened the envelope to discover a treasure. Inside was written a letter in elementary-English- as-a-second-language syntax asking if I would please sign an enclosed picture and return it to the address below. Furthermore, the young football fan welcomed me to Berlin, wished me luck, and thanked me for my time. A stamp was enclosed.
Wow, I remember writing to my favorite baseball and football players back in the day in exactly the same manner, and now a German Junga thought me worthy of this effort. I smiled, tried to gain some perspective, and for a few minutes did not think about Munich’s 3-4 blitzing scheme.