Playing For Pizza Flashcards
Setting of first scene
Hospital with rick in bed and arnie the agent nearby
Author
John grisham
How long was rick knocked out
24 hours….when he woke up he remembered his second concussion watching a cheerleader then he went to seattle then cleveland
What happened
The third string quarterback was in the afc championship game
He woke up didnt know what happened and yet arnie told him
The browns let him go
The only team that ever signed him twice was
Toronto
Three interceptions in
11 minutes
Which was throwing arm
Right
Headline on arnies paper the cleveland post
Fans storm hospital
Browns up 17 0, browns defense awesome, he comes in
Throws pass to other team 17 7 minutes to go picked off by runner 17 14, snap fumbled, last four minutes drive stalls… 40 seconds to go hits target but too hard bounces other team scores 17 21…crowd goes crazy
Arnie got what percent of ricks salary
5 percent
How old is rick
28
What is his degree in
Physed where hw could get a job for 40000 teaching sixth graders
Ricks home town
Davenport iowa
How many stormed hospital
Arnie said 20
Paper said 50
Attack journalist
Charlie cray
Cray said rick dockery could top all time what list
Goat
Arnie clients
7 in nfl and 4 in canada he was a midlevel
Why did they say rick was bad
He feared contact for good reason and didnt put team first
Sams Clients , the webbs, from portland but claimed
Italian blood. He moonlighted as a guide
Parma coach
Sam russo. He and arnie both went to bucknell. Arnie called him hearing that sam needed a quarterback.
Sam equAted italian football to
Division 3 washington and lee in virginia
What do italian players get paid
3 american players Meal money Maybe some rent Quarterbacks on,y salary Beer and pizza if owner in good mood
How big are italian crowds
3000 at most
Why is sam in italy
He loves it, wife is italian, extended family great place to live….cant make money coaching in us anyway
Where did rick go
Just started driving west maybe towards iowa until he heard blizzard then turned south maybe florida. Arnie called with info on panthers as starting quarterback
What is bush league
Like playing in the bush, or fields, backwoods not professional
Where is parma
In northern italy by milan
Parmasean cheese is made in
Parma
How much was rick worth
50000 playoffs
40000 iowa
Had to pay off lease
About 80000
No money from bad investments car wash mexican restaurant etc
Threw 4 touchdowns big ten player of the week
At columbus when he was playing for iowa in front of 100000 years ago
Where did he stop in hotel
London, kentucky
Details of parma salary
3000 euros a month for 5 months
Apartment
Car
Or about 4000 bucks a month
What other bad news did arnie have
An investigator was tracking rick down in case he was the father of one of the cheerleaders baby. Tiffany. Cant go public if cant serve with papers. Cant be served in italy
Dockery reluctant to play because
He was the butt of so many jokes
Why did dockery look strange when he got off train
It was winter in italy and he was dressed for florida carrying golf clubs
Where did sam say the closest golf course was
He never saw one.
Cars are small becuase
Gas is expensive by liter . A liter is like a quart. 4 quarts in a gallon. Or about 5 bucks
Hiw old is parma
2000 years
Piazza started 400 years ago and then bombed by allies…we did not hit vatican because mussolini was friends with
Hitler
Other things in parma
Opera Duomo Bumoer to umber cars Central square with cafes and shops Foot traffic
A bar in italy
Small pub coffee shop or gathering space
Prego
Go right ahead
Bridge name
Ponte verde
Americans get paid
Rick and two others
Describe ricks apartment
Bedroom den small kitchen with contemporary art on a 3rd floor in a gold building worth 2000 euros a month
Italys national treasures
Food women and four hour dinners
Hiw long has sam been in italy
Married 12 in italy for 5
The teams goal
To win the italian superbowl
Sam wanted rick
To get new clothes and learn the language and enjoy himself
Describe stafium
Rugby pitch leased to panthers natural grass a mile from soccer stadium which hold 30000… Panthers usually have 1000 fill thr 3000 free seats….looked like a d3 field to make training tough for nfls…smaller than davenport south
Poles
Blue yellow and advertised heineken… 10 yards short
Did rick like the browns
Bitter winds
Stafium cold
Prefered warmer weather
How long in florida
Two months
Team to beat
Bergamo with 8 straight super bowls
Want did he want in parma
Small check
No press
Wait while arnie worked a miracle
Runner
Small
Colorado state
Black kid
Slidell turner
Receiver
Italian
Great feet
High maintenance
Fabrizzio
Free safety
Trey colby
Ole miss
Center
Nino
5 10
Mid 30s
Wife jealous of hands near
Restaurant owner of montana
Translator
Carlos brother has bad knee 6 2 250
Paulo
Player
Good english
Unassuming family owned place
Not too expensive
Generous dishes
Trattoria vs restaurant (expensive), bar, inoteca (small dishes)
Panther colrs
Black and silver
Itslians exaggerate
Everything
First dish
Plate of cheese meats and wine
Parmais a province of
Emilio romano
Proscuitto
Parma ham
Pigs fed with barley and oats and milk from parmesan
Never cooked
Cured for months with salt air love 18 months
Aggie
Paulo
Tortellini
Belly button naked woman
What is to see in parma
Lovely little town 150000 Good food wine people Dont want to attract lots of people some europeans Americans go to florence milan rome
Second course
Chef fvorite veal cutlet parma style
Parma famous for
Food not wine
Dessert
Black pie andsparkling whitewine
Chocolate with almonds coffee and ice cream
Buzzer ringing rick hungover on den couch who was at door
Trench coat and uniformed police man one was named Romo
Phone call made to
Sam
Prior arrest
Spring freshman year crashed off campus fraternity party at jail slept in drunk tank four were hawkeye football players and had bad press in newspaper threatened with loss of scholarship jail and community college
Why did the police bring him in
T see judge guiseppe lazzarino…. Call me franco … Large round head with hair on his chin over 6 feet tall….fullback … After franco harris…stylish ….size 14 loafers….wanted the super bowl trophy in parma
Franco harris
Was italian on his mothers side his dad was a soldier and he played for the steelers
Franco the judge greatest hits video what was ricks reaction
Final play screen play, tucked, hit, spun, bounced off defenders striding …. Rick asked if it was in slow motion… Franco was wounded…rick tried to say it was joke
How did sam pick bank for rick
Bank that could handle english a liitle, sam also showed him where to but fresh food each day
What was problem with the car sam got for rick
It was a clutch but he didnt want to make a big deal
Drank beer alone, lonely feeling, shuffled around wine store than back at fiat clutch…what color was car
Dark copper he had never seen….is the cara metaphor for overcoming challenges?? He left it parked and said maybe later
Wore broncos jersey paid 10000 dollars
Sly turner
Men in italy
Live home til 30 then expect wife to be mom
What was arties lie about cheerleaders
That parma actually had some
Sams coaches talk was in
Italian in a locker room the quarter of a szie of his high school locker room
Sam frowned and rendered and
Italians frown on selfdeprecation and modesty..but rick ended strongly
Alex Olivetto is described at watmups as
Psycho. Rick though quarterbacks shouldnt do wind sprints
Slim receiver
Fabrizzio
Nfl receivers pass more than
Run
Where do theygo for pizza and beer
Giannis
Jockey for attention permanent cocaptains motivating even offseason
Franco and nino
Plan in darkness that required alarm
Get fiat out ….fiat metaphor…not quite what he is used to but forces him to overcome challenges and moves him on his way
Wo watched him bang the fiat around on the other cars
Old lady pedestrian and a dog he didnt speak so that she wouldnt know he was american
He took the fiat to the country
To practice driving on level ground and to practice parking
What trouble did he have in coffee bar
Didnt understand go to cashier and then barista
What concerned rick on his drive
Police car behind him. Fiat then died. Police followed him and then turned on the blue lights
Wat happened after police pulled him over
He reached for the glove bix realizing he had not anticipate small details. Pulled out an expired iowa driver license.
What did he give deane and aske the police officers
His judge friends business card
Trainer wild eyed college boy
Mateo
Cant complaini during a
Rubdown massage
What did rick say about th playbook to sam
Its high school stuff and i have a few ideas
Who did rick tell to get a massage from mateo
Sli
Sams wife
Anna
Franco had hop
That they could win superbowl against bergamo….these things were different than what he used to hope for in march
Francos wife
Antionella
Male castrated chicken
Capon
His first pass in italy
Was a copy of his last pass in usa. Hurt. Fabrizzo and he pouted.
First touchdown pass in four years
Against naples
Another pizza place
Pelippo’s or philipos … First game ran longer an he did in high school…emailed parents and arnie
Rick would walk when
He didnt want to repark the fiat
Broncardos wife was sylvia and was
Much younger than he ( 15 or maybe 25 years)
Operahouse built by one of napoleans wife kept her in italy. True or false
True
What do people wear to the opera
Gowns and dark suits
In parma what is more popular soccer or opera
Opera
Tell me details about opera
In italian Written by verdi Based on othello by shakespeare Island of cyprus setting Crowd waiting for governor othello Elaborate costumes Othello wife desdemona
Who was the soprano
Gabriella as desdemona
What didthe 5 th level cheap seats do to desdemona/gabriella
Boo her …. Echoed like there was 100
Anna called the boo crowd… The 100 seats availabke to public
Pigs
What is prosecco
Sparkling wine
Plot of othello…
People convonce othello that desdemona is cheating. He becomes convinced to kill his beautiful wife. He murders her in her room. Realuzes she was honest. Kisses her three times and kills himself
At gabriellas bow
The crowd booed louder. The restof the opera house turned on them. It was worse than a philadelphia crowd
Second opponent in football
Rhinos of milan. I forget who first was. Should know that.
What did the players do for the americans
Take turns inviting them to dinner so thatbthey felt welcome. Sme were small others large most were long
What happened and pietros dinner and his pregnant wife. Ivana. Pietro sold seeds and was studying
English and practiced on rick when he could. There house was small so they met at a restaurant.
Who did he see at pietros dinner
Gabriella Bellini fighting with her man
Are their blonds in northern italy
Yes
Trying to find parking after pietros dinner what happened
He stalled the fiat in front of a bully in a fancy car. He flipped a bird at the BMW 40 year old asshole. Two more cars behind now. He yelled for the ass to get out of the car. The next car a woman yelled something unpleasant. Young woman started fiat, hit reverse, parked it in one try
Who was the fiat driver who rescued him
Gabriella.
He chased gabriella and was surprised she
Knew english and he asked her to drink she drank campari on ice
Gabriella tell me about her
From florence 25 to 30 years old Studied in london Speaks italian and english Has seen most major us cities Good figure Dark hair Soprano Eyes encouraged honesty Lived in florence Carletto is her boyfriend of 7 years Superb at parking and singing Stayed at pub til 2am closing He walked her to her hotel Met for lunch next day Schedule similar to football Salary similar Started singing at 14 pro at 17
At second date lunch
They ate salads
Discussed othello
Ate gelato
What did rick due at second show
Preempted bos, clappedcloudly and yelled bravo … Others followed
Why couldnt he go to her last shhow
Game in milan
In a club in milan drinking danish vodka on ricks credit card they
Met women. After 4am rhey went to a bavarian beer hall filled with americans
In the beer hall he met
Slightly heavy redhead beverly from texas … A determined clinger in a group of married travel agents. Left with beverly went to hotel. Was cheap sex worth the lies.
48 hour rule
No booze 48 hour before kickoff
American football less popular in milan than parma even though
100000 americans live in milan
How did the milan game go
Not well they were hung over and lost….scored at the end only. Bergamo also beat naples making it worse. Didnt make paper though
Rick apologized to sam
While he was moonlighting as a tour guide
Define jovial
.
Who walked out mid season
Sli. Went home to pregnant wife instead of chasing girls and football
Next opponent bologna warriors whose best player was
Montrose. Usually played in superbowl
Sam dwelled on bologna at monday film, montrose looked slow, bruncardo was reluctsnt to bringin running back
Because of loss and money he gets writeoffs for sports team
Rick said answer is
Trey and fabrizzio and playpitch and catch
Sam got a call from
Fabrizzios lawyer who was also an italian agent wanting 2000 euros a month
Journalist slithered into parma
Charlie cray and cabbie didnt even know where stadium was… Big cheese in pizza league
Dockery was the Greatest what in history of pro football
Goat
Dockery lost to
Montroses team the warriors 35 - 34 losing two in a row
When is italian superbowl
July
Who needed surgery after warriors game
Trey at wasriors game fibula compund fracture …. The last black panther from mississippi
Who did the nurse give the blue sleeping pill too
Rick sitting next to trey
Bruncardo soccer, volleyball and tw o football teams all
Lost the same day
Rumor had some of the italian bergamo players
Were paid
How did rick propse to solve the fabrizzio problem and get him ack
Give in to his salsry demand by taking it out of ricks salary even though it was a dangerous precedent
Who negotiated on behalf of the panthers with fabrizio
Judge franco over food. 800 euros a month paid by brancardo. He would not take money from rick because he was a man of his word
How did the panthers feel about fabrizzio getting paid
Some were annoyed most were indifferent
Pietro thought charlie cray following rick to italy was
Cruel
Put the game schedulein order.
Bologna
Lattzia
Etc
Treys apartment looked like a
Landfill
Trey blamed
Rick for moving him to offense because he never got hurt on defense
Saskatechuan had coach offered rick 80000 then 90000 the. 100000.
Rat mullins machine gun offense, 50000 people a game, but rick was under contract at parma!! Rick asked to sleep on it. Drove to train to florence, went to savoy hotel and called gabriella at work and asked her for a drink at 5. There he told arnie no on the phone from the hotel and left to the drink.
Canadian Team bought rick
A ticket to meet with rat
While he was waiting for gariella
He saw 8 american cute coeds. Southern belles. Wondering if he was italian or american. After 530 a brunette with dimples came to his table…livvie. Blue eyes high cheekbones silky hair exchange students
While he was waitbg for football he found parma.
While he was waiting for gabriella he found livvue
But his words say he was waiting on no one
What did livvie do when rick asked for the disco name
Took his number and said she would call him….invited him to dinner at paulies. Packed. She was a univ of georgia junior studying art history. Salad and wine. Didnt care about football although she was a cheerleader.
He found his cheerleader in italy.
Hervfather was a surgeon having an affair
She knew what she wanted to stay in italy and tour.
Shewanted gelato not a disco he walked her home and kissed her goodnight.
Who called rick at 5am canada time
Rick mullins… Salary shoe contracts cheerleaders
Gabriellafinally sent
Him an email
Flight to regina
Was delayed due to weather. Read paper about football team. A tailback cut making running gamebnot necssary. Rat was interviewing others. Paper talked trash…including a link to charlie cray and rat said no comment about rick. He turned his flight to cleveland
Whyndid rick go back to cleveland
To confront charlie cray
Who,did rick say he was
Roy grady a new baseball playerbfor the indians
Describe cray
Someone called roy he turned in that direction 45 balding strands of hair Cheap reading glasses Overweight Never earned a letter Nevervhad a cheerleader
Answered with sneer
What did rick due to cray
A single right cross on the left chin bone with no words
Flew back to
Toronto and then to rome
When he woke up in parma he saw
Livvie galloways red toenails and after their first night together went on a parma tour
Rick and livvie
Rick was lutheran livvie was nothing butber family was some kind of protestant
What part of the punch story did the panthers not know
That he went overseas to maybe talk to another team
Irony of ricks mom
Travelling in europe the sheer ignorance of people who don’t speak english
Arnies good news
Plead guilt, pay fine, cray civil suit then working on it
Tiffanys baby is mixed race off the hook
Losing money as agent
Ricks game to remeber as he headed to balzamo giants
Playing aginstbgiants at meadowlands. Completed 7 passes.
Strategy at italian giants game in balzano
Run and not use fabrizio because bergamo was watching, worked they won 56 41 bergamo lion next at parma 67 consecutive wins havent beaten in 10 years
Who did 220 lb mosci pkay for
Bergamo 56 liked to be called lt
Killer bees
Balzanno and bergamo and bologna
Livvies legal problem
Finished with exams
Sick of roomates
Tired of family
Thinking about not going back for last ten days
But
Worried about visa expiring
Needed a place to stay
It mentions that livvie and rick had a first fight and
Neither held a grudge and that was a good sign
What,italian team had cheerleaders
Bergamo
Nasty hit in bergamo game
Four flags 3 bodies mosci franco
Safety macgregor from gettysburg closelined fabrizzio
Nino took out macgregor
Cornerback the professor went for ricks head there were shoves
Kiiiilll mosci franco got up
Rick rammed
Tge professor and gained 7 because the professor called him a goat and asked for a pass….three straight collisions
Salary brought fabrizzio
Responsibility
What do we know about livvies parents
Met at u of feorgia
Mothers family savannah bluebloods with little cash
Career surgeon from new england seeing nurses
Sister in therapy since 10
Boarding school in vermont
Summers in montana
Livvie had no plans
Oldestpanther
Tommy 42 will retire when they win super bowl Tall 200 lb Good for 1/3 of the game Govt worker Hip new apartment Would fly to texas to do two a days
From flirting to casual sex to something more
Shared ice. Cream, pistachio,jealousy, monogamy
Before bergamo who dominated league
Bologna
The week before the superbowl where did they go
Venice
How old is livvie
21
What is good to eat in venice
Seafood
Third brush with the cops/investigators
At3am
First with nonfranco arrest
Next with fiat papers
Third, private investigator from livvies parents
How did they find rick
One of livvies roommates
Livvies reaction
Anger at parents, roommate etc
Curiousity which parent hired lawyer
Said she could never take ticket.would go on her own terms. Thank you for simple family.
Plan
Permisio de sojourno another 90 days
Franco, tommy etc
More likely if they one superbowl
Bergamos plan
Americans doubleteam fabrizzio Defenses dominated Fabrizzio smothered at 175 Dull to watch but hits were ferocious Mosci strong in middle quickon sweeps At half panthers down 0 3
Who was in the crowd from cleveland
Cray with a wired jaw….says real football and playing for pride ot money
What did sam tell rick about running himself
That will work but save it for later… In the next quarter down 6 sam announced it was showtime to run himself
To stop quarterback
Macgregor backed off fabrizzi
95 yards to go
In 3 minutes. Mosci taunted the goat to throw him a pass
Throw pass and get hit by mosci or run out of bounds on what ended up to be
A 76 foot spiral to fabrizzio hail mary …just get to the end zone the ball will be there….everyone saw catch but rick who was on all 4s….felipo crushed extra point…cray still credited the catch not the throw
Tommys last play as panther
Sacked quarterback
Super bowl winners
Panthers
Contrast the throw and the catch in the final minutes
Moan and cheer
Silent and loud
The newdeal good
Relative to italians
Including apartment now needed by 2
But worried about 4th concussion
Going to beach for a few weeks in the italian boot
Livvie now had plans for travel and to delay last year of college
His rule was 2 cathedrals a day
