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Boobie Miles lost it all. He lost his hope. His dreams. His future. When he injured his leg during practice, he didn’t think that it was that but things were not looking good for him. The doctors told him that he would not be able to play football ever again. In the poem Tears, Idle Tears by Lord Alfred Tennyson, he says “O Death in Life, the days that are no more”. Boobie’s life has ended yet he is still alive. All he lived for is playing football and that was the only thing that he was good at. Now that he can not longer play football he does not have purpose and all he can do now is just sit on the sidelines and watch. Much like going cold turkey on heroine, Boobie is dying on the inside but there is nothing that he can do about it. The dreams of Boobie Miles were crushed in one defining moment. Boobie said “All I wanted to do is make it to the pros” (Bissinger 57). His life depended on his ability to continue playing football. If his professional football career were taken from him, he has no reason to go on. The team depended on Boobie and his skill of the game. Now that he can no longer play, it is like he is letting down the team and all of Odessa. So much reliance on him was so abruptly taken away from him, he does not know what to do.