2-Cards: Martian Charactery (Football)

Capitalism/sports marks cards/collectors/musketeers as Martian-envy faces for an Earth world labyrinth.

A sports and trading-cards culture vignette. Thanks for reading, 

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Amlan and Marcus had become professional bank robbers in the American Homeland but in the sidetrack entreated their special/secret fascination with football sports trading cards collecting and had amassed a pretty gorgeous set of culture/sportsmanship/contests reflection treasures for Western world jars (for the Ego).

They especially liked their two culture-reflection TV-iconography football cards, one a college-football culture NBC-TV imprints Fighting Irish QB-card of great sportsmanship-windows commentary for student-life 'access' in the West; and the other a Thanksgiving-TV football culture imprints Detroit-QB rookie-card of Super Bowl premonition and 21st-Century vanity (autographed no less).

MARTIAN: Greeting, heroes.

AMLAN/MARCUS: You hacked into our cyber-email portal, stranger.

MARTIAN: I'm a male, hiding underground, on the Red-Planet, ha.

AMLAN/MARCUS: You claim you're a Martian but want our email-eye now.

MARTIAN: I know you're bank robbers, as I've spied on your emails, heroes.

AMLAN/MARCUS: We're not just street-fools; we're vigilantes for eco-image.

MARTIAN: Yes, yes, I know of the blood diamonds work you do in America.

AMLAN/MARCUS: Conflict-zone gems from Africa are now black market woe.

MARTIAN: Yes, Palestinians (etc.) are in on the malaise; warlord-diamonds.

AMLAN/MARCUS: We're good at what we do...alternative to Interpol (etc.).

MARTIAN: I contact you not as an authority-figure but for your sports-cards!

AMLAN/MARCUS: What, our Irish and Lions football cards, Mr. Mars?

MARTIAN: I've made 'mark' of you as very-special illusionists (Facebook-like).

AMLAN/MARCUS: What?

Amlan and Marcus were shocked a Martian was spying on them somehow! What did the Mars-man want (with them)? It seemed to our protagonist 'antiheroes' (Amlan/Marcus) that the Martian spying on them wished to make 'mark' of them as capitalism-illusions stenographers for an Earth realm civilization/culture imaging (for the Ego). Maybe the Martian (if that's what he actually was!) wanted to compare Red-Planet/Blue-Planet investment-jitters for things of leviathan/uncertainty, for a fortune-teller's joust tell (hmmm).

AMLAN: I'm a married man now, Mr. Mars (secrets).

MARTIAN: And you, Marcus (hmmm)?

MARCUS: I'm dating a Boston-town waitress, stranger.

MARTIAN: What's the investment-line for your Robin Hood lives blended cards?

AMLAN: We seek to cast ourselves as cyber-reps of sports linked with safety.

MARTIAN: I read of that Boston Marathon (bomb) tragedy, heroes.

MARCUS: What do you want with us, Mr. Mars?
MARTIAN: I want you to craft a fiction-tell...an 'angel' investor on Mars.

AMLAN: You want a biopic (secret) about Martian interest in football.

MARTIAN: Now, you're thinking (of me)...but keep my 'IQ' a (dark) secret.

MARCUS: I get it, yeah...we cook, and you pardon our Earth for frailties (ha).

MARTIAN: Good luck (Facebook-like).

Amlan married his high-school sweetheart (Ezzy) some-time ago, and post-contact with 'Mr. Mars' by (secret) email he decided to concede to that stranger requisition to craft a fiction-culture tell about earnestness for commerce-society and sports-walls for risk superstitions. He thought it was Pulitzer-caliber (sure). He never told Ezzy the secret of the Martian investor/inquirer. The work, titled Diamonds & Downs, was written by Amlan and ornamented by pal Marcus. Amlan wondered if this entire 'crusade' was some kind of investment jar for treasures/insurance hyperbole. Maybe the Martian 'moved' Amlan to think less like Robin Hood and more like Howard Zinn (ha).

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)