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A Defense of College Football Rivalries as Local Culture
College football is a local endeavor that should be enacted by those with a connection to that place.
Two Yells for Football?
If beer and football are just the modern bread and circuses of a declining empire, then these are spectacles best avoided. However, if such gridiron microcosms of the human experience…
Title-town
The Green Bay Packers – like America itself - are a study in ironies: the smallest city owning a franchise in the largest professional sport, a non-profit corporation in one…
Pure football?
Is there any difference now between college ball and the NFL?
Miss Coach
A woman head coach of a boy's high school football team robs the players of a male role model and diminishes the bonds of male camaraderie.
Oh When the Saints (Come Marching In)
Is happiness found in fan-dom?
Thoughts on the Return of College Football
Holland, MI. The beginning of the college football season is the closest thing to a state holiday in Michigan. The release of the new auto line might have at one time…
The Right Way to Kick a Football
My father played for the Philadelphia Eagles. He didn’t particularly want to: In 1933, 1934, and 1935 the Eagles were a new “franchise” in the National Football League and not…