Another ex-roommate has written jokes for Jimmy Kimmel. The carnival kid is Harvard’s defensive coordinator now. If football teams are sports’ biggest tribe and produce unbreakable bonds, the friendships grow that much tighter when they involve sharing a refrigerator and toilet. Old roommates keep certain memories locked away, untouched until they’re together again. But the same nonsense made them laugh: the teammate from California who wet the bed, the kid whose family ran a traveling carnival, the time a traffic cone mysteriously appeared in their living room after a night of drinking. Now they were in their mid-40s, their broad shoulders rounded, their hairlines giving way to the beach erosion of time. Most of them had played football at Harvard in the late 1990s. Deep Reads features The Washington Post’s best immersive reporting and narrative writing.Ībout a year ago, a bunch of old college roommates met up at a tavern in rural Nebraska.
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