
Carl’s Hat Wins Marathon
a short story
by
Jeff
Posey
Hot Water Press
Copyright 2012 by Jeff Posey
Published by Hot Water Press at Smashwords
The hat did it. Everybody recognized the hat. Plus my old, ugly face and my name. The last surviving participant of Super Bowl XXI. Full of spit and balls-to-the-wall everything that made me the second-best inside linebacker of the day. Overshadowed only by Lawrence Taylor. My own teammate. We won the Super Bowl together that year, 1987. Until today, that’s been the most kick-ass day of my life.