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“It may be a lost bird caught in the rafters,” Penelope said, although she too feared something worse.

As the rafters rocked, the pints spilled and a joyful giddiness filled the Allianz Stadium bowl, it felt impossible that this team would follow the same trajectory.

The nearly century-old theater is stuffed to the rafters, quite literally, with set pieces, which hang from ropes and pulleys attached to the fly loft above the stage and wings.

Some include textured shakes and shingles, or especially wide rafters, giving them the nickname “airplane bungalows.”

He, his parents and his five brothers and sisters slept in hammocks crisscrossed from the rafters.