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When Boobie Miles got a major knee injury, he thought is was the end of his football career. According to Bissinger in the book Friday Night Lights, Boobie Miles says, “I quit coach, they got a good season going” (Bissinger 17). Boobie didn’t feel any emotion when leaving the trainer room but once he was on the bleachers watching, it hit him. He missed being out there on the field playing with all his teammates. Boobie felt he was useless to his team because of his knee injury, he felt he was holding the team back. Boobie knew he was not the only reason the team was good and they could make it to state without his help. The reason he felt that quitting would make football go away was that he had nothing to look forward to but football. Sitting on the sidelines hurt his pride and love for the game.

In the poem Tears, Idle Tears, Alfred Tennyson says, "And thinking of the days that are no more." Bobbie Miles ended his football days, they were over. When he went up to the coach flat out telling him that he was done playing football, it didn't phase him until he was watching on the sidelines. "Thinking of the days", Boobie did not realize that by him quitting, he was going to be miserable. "Days that are no more", His love for the game wouldn't go away as easily as he thought it would. The reason this poem relates to Boobie is, they are both thinking of what they had and now they are without what they loved most. Both men where speaking out of emotion and not intelligence. Speaking from emotion will turn into regret in the long run.