On Griff’s mind, as with pleasure he considered his Depth Chart, was "The Catalog of Ships", remembered from The Iliad, a book he read in a University class that was supposed to be easy (players on the Huskies football team had lists of these classes and of classes taught by professors, who showed up in the stands during football games). But, while some of his colleagues carried paperback copies of The Satyricon in their pockets, Griff was entranced by The Iliad.

Number One in the Huygens Tech Wide Receivers was the team's only NFL prospect, DeJuan Marlon Achebe, who from Cupertino had transferred because of the depth of professors in the Huygens Astronomy Department. Griff remembered watching DeJuan's films on the day when DeJuan arrived in his office.

Often on his mind was his team’s first possession of the Lodi Game: how River threw a completed deep vertical to DeJuan; how flawlessly caught lateral passes and well executed pattern running by his other two Wide Receivers -- Casey Conlon Murphy, Charleston West Virginia, and Baroni Nicoli Fiore, ("The Baron"), from Ipswich. Massachusetts -- moved Huygens into Lodi territory.

Before the taunting Lodi Bull’s Coach could figure out what had happened to his vaunted Buster and Buck defense, Huygens was on the board with a 30 yard completed pass to Achebe. Inspired by his boyfriend (Luke: Multimedia Gulch chic in tight black jeans; a silk silver and blue IC Chips Jersey revealed under his unzipped black leather jacket}, Will O'Arragan had kicked a perfect extra point. Huygens 7 - Lodi 0. And that was just the beginning of that Saturday afternoon in Lodi.

"'In company with about one hundred others, we took passage in the clipper ship 'America', Capt. C. P. Seabury, from the port of New Bedford, Massachusetts'", she read aloud.