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Transcript: Commentary: National signing day for high school football seniors
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- February 14, 2001
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Commentary: National signing day for high school football seniors
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon
BOB EDWARDS, host:
For many football fans, the most important date in February occurred
last week. Commentator Frank Deford says what's known as national
signing day brings out some of the worst in sports fans.
FRANK DEFORD (Sports Illustrated):
National signing day is the day when high schools' football seniors
can officially plight their troth to the college team who best recruited
them. Especially down South, national signing day dominates newspapers,
TV and talk radio as grown men carry on passionately about what teen-
age blue ...