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Football in Western Penn between fall and winter culminates in delight at mud.

The brevity keeps the attention on season and physical play without specifying a game or event.

'Getting Dirty' places 'Football in Western Penn' at the seam of the seasons, 'right between / Fall and winter', and ends 'How wonderful / is mud'.

The dirt promised by the title becomes a seasonal delight rather than a stain; the poem names no particular game.