EXPURGATED FOOTBALL.

EXPURGATED FOOTBALL.
500.7.

Can this tame,
Benevolent game
Be the same
Old riproaring.
Death scoring
Stunt
With which we were wont
To amuse ourselves in days of yore?
No gore?
No broken ribs?
Why not the on bibs
And let them play
Croquet
Or something real exciting
In which the fighting
If you insist On a scrap
Is a slap
On the wrist
On the classic shades
When the situation
Calls for a downright mean fling,
That the other is a nasty, mean
thing?