clarkston and you pull up in the parking lot next to this field, there's a green sign there that says armstead field. and there's -- there are three little drawings down there at the bottom that had clearly -- you can still make them out. they'd been there for decades, probably. there's a little baseball and there's a little football and there's a soccer ball. so, in fact, whoever built that field, actually did intend poem to play soccer there. and it was hard to avoid the conclusion that the mayor's real problem was not with the game of soccer, which was somehow he argued worse for grass than for other games, but with whom was playing soccer. and that's -- for me when i heard that, i thought, okay, this is going to be interesting. i'm from birmingham. i grew up in the south. i had a sense of the southern min mines, the southern outsiders. and i'm assuming the outsider role again parachuting in this little town to try to report on it. but i had a hunch that this is going to be interesting. and i wasn't disappointed. that's sort of how the story and my reporting started. and i'd just like to ta