A few days ago while scrolling through Twitter, I saw that Special Teams Coordinator Brock Olivo will be hosting a football camp in Italy, where he coached earlier in his career. For me, that connected some dots in the worlds of literature and football. I knew that Olivo majored in literature at the University of Missouri, so at his introductory press conference in February, I got the chance to talk with him about some books and authors.

John Grisham has led a notable and successful career as an author specializing in thrilling legal novels, but readers may not be familiar with a charming novel of his called "Playing for Pizza." I learned that Olivo knew of it and had read it. Actually, he more than read it. "Read it?" he said animatedly, "I lived 'Playing for Pizza.'"