The Idle American

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The Idle American
The Idle American

For many decades, football-loving men gathered in coffee shops to dissect the previous Friday night’s schoolboy football games. There was more dissecting than coffee-drinking.

Many may not have realized it, but those games— won, lost or tied—helped to unify community spirit.

For the most part, high school sports were kept in perspective, unlike major university programs today. Currently, mighty tele…