and you remember how you would sit in the gym with your uniform on with twenty other guys all sitting there together but no one looking at any one else , and the sun slanting down on to the gym floor , the warm fall sun , with your cleats out in front of you , and one guy always pacing up and down the floor with his cleats making little black marks on the hardwood , and one guy hopping up and up and up , then someones dad would stick his head in the door and say time to go fellows and you would all come to your feet and line up two by two at the big double doors , tugging at your helmet and shrugging your shoulders to get the pads set right .