How would you describe Ivory's relationship with football?

e to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.

Whoaaaa- sorry about that!

He has ambivalent feelings about football –

he hates it at the same time it has a funny hold on him.

Ivory Christian, an African-American middle linebacker for the Panthers. A punishing hitter with excellent reflexes and athleticism, Christian is a religious person. He struggles to enjoy playing football, realizing that there should be more to life and spends much of his time in thought. He is the only senior player from the 1988 Panther football team to receive a Division I football scholarship, attending Texas Christian University.