Darcy Archer
Damar Hamlin's collapse in the middle of Monday Night Football because of commotio cordis. Watching his mid-tackle heart attack on live television was so intense and scary that it immediately got me thinking about the dangers of the game and the crazy gambles NFL players. Not to mention the perfect romantic symbolism of a heart injury...
And then I started playing out the M/M version in my head: what kind of guy would make it to that level? What would that recuperation look like, especially for a player in their 30s? What kind of fears would get in their way? What nice guy might be waiting in their home town to help them back on their feet? And from all that I cooked up a shy, smalltown high school coach who's had a secret crush on "America's Tightest End" since they were teenagers... which is the core of Cross My Heart
And then I started playing out the M/M version in my head: what kind of guy would make it to that level? What would that recuperation look like, especially for a player in their 30s? What kind of fears would get in their way? What nice guy might be waiting in their home town to help them back on their feet? And from all that I cooked up a shy, smalltown high school coach who's had a secret crush on "America's Tightest End" since they were teenagers... which is the core of Cross My Heart
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