The Idle American

Back to the Magic Valley…

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 program...

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