More than a strange but true sports story, Roll With It is a love letter to Generation X and a time machine back to the early ‘90s.
Set during humanity's final Slacker-friendly years before a tech tidal wave would change everything, it’s 1990 and 21-year-old Porteus chases his childhood dream of working in the world of sports. Through an unlikely sequence of events, he gets drafted into duty as General Manager of a professional hockey team in the up-start Roller Hockey International, completely out of his depth.
Flashbacks to road trips, dive bars, locker rooms, Dead shows, and blind dates, Roll With It celebrates the improvisational superpower an entire generation utilized to MacGyver our way through the world that was transforming beneath our feet.
But, it's cool. We rolled with it. (not recommended for book club)
More than a strange but true sports story, Roll With It is a love letter to Generation X and a time machine back to the early ‘90s.
Set during humanity's final Slacker-friendly years before a tech tidal wave would change everything, it’s 1990 and 21-year-old Porteus chases his childhood dream of working in the world of sports. Through an unlikely sequence of events, he gets drafted into duty as General Manager of a professional hockey team in the up-start Roller Hockey International, completely out of his depth.
Flashbacks to road trips, dive bars, locker rooms, Dead shows, and blind dates, Roll With It celebrates the improvisational superpower an entire generation utilized to MacGyver our way through the world that was transforming beneath our feet.
But, it's cool. We rolled with it. (not recommended for book club)