“I learned how to scuba dive in Key West with my grandfather,” Hill said, sporting a smile and pony-tailed dreadlocks with colored beads after his first rookie mini-camp practice with the Cowboys.

That must have hurt, especially because you knew the French children weren’t even trying. “Uh, go on, play weez your seellee nambeurs. Zey tell you nosseeng of ze true naytcheur of ze soula. I’ll weepa for you.”

No one else was wagging and waving in that way: a gestureless mute telegraphy seemed to pass between the other boxes.

The Roman emperor Decius is mainly remembered for the many Christians martyrized on his orders