"I had just broken up with an experimental filmmaker who studied with George Kuchar. Sitting in a Berkeley Marina bar, In prep for class, I was studying a facsimile of the Belles Heures of the Duke of Berry, when a former Raiders Wide Receiver sat down beside me. Uninvited. And there he is, wearing a tight Huskies shirt that I didn't know he still had -- about to board a bus with two Chinese Runing Backs, a gay kicker from Dublin, a punter from Sicily, a Quarterback, whose parents run a Greek restaurant, and a Backup Quarterback from Oakland, who, after he saw Grant Fuhr playing goalie in the 1988 Stanley Cup. has always dreamed of playing goalie in the NHL."