17 REASONS WHY FOOTBALL IS BETTER THAN HIGH SCHOOL
One of my all time favorite articles: “We say, “If only she’d spend as much time doing her algebra as she does on cheerleading…” with the implication that kids blow off Algebra because they’re immature. We don’t usually think to turn the question around and ask what it is about the things they love that are worthy of their best effort. We don’t usually ask what it is about school that usually makes it unworthy of that kind of devotion. But if we’re interested in looking at places of joy, places where kids lose track of how hard they’re working because they’re so involved in the work, places where teenagers voluntarily learn a difficult skill, football can give us some clues about how and why to do it in other areas of school.” Seems appropriate today.