traveling back

03/05/09 10:04

To travel is in some ways to escape your life, unless you return to the place you grew up, which is to insert yourself back into a previous life.

I'm in Phillipsburg, NJ, on the northern banks of the Delaware River. If you kept your eyes above the treeline, you'd think you were in Florida - cloudless blue skies. But bring your gaze down and you see leafless trees rising out of snow-clad yards. Step outside and the air is brisk. I have left spring training for winter's last stand. From fastballs to snowballs.

It's wrestling season up here, which means the sports pages are full of pictures of young men in compromising positions. The biggest sport in town though is football, and it is the biggest story.

Every Thanksgiving, for many years, Phillipsburg has played its across-the-river rival Easton, Pennsylvania. Stateliners vs. Red Rovers up at Lafayette College in Easton. In 1993 the game ended in a tie. Now the players from both those teams - men in their 30s - are going to play each other in a rematch in April. Apparently the Manning brothers - who have no known connection to either town - are going to serve as coaches.

It sounds like the premise for a movie, one of the rare times that my old hometown conjures images of Hollywood.

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