America Needs Its Boys to Play Football

Fall is here, football is back, and America's boys need to play it and be shaped by it.

As the son of a football coach, I'm admittedly biased. As a dad who has spent the past month driving a high-school freshman to two-a-day, often 100-degree practices, I'm deliriously invested. But you don't have to be a football fanatic to grasp that today, for 12- to 18-year-old boys, this sport has never been more important. While controversy surrounds the embarrassingly blurry line between college football and the National Football League, our culture needs to take a moment to commend and steward the glorious tradition of high-school football.

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