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Article: COUCH SLOUCH: In 'Friday Night Lights,' jocks presented as teen idols
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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TO RECONNECT with America - where I still proudly live,
particularly on weekends - I recently went to "Friday Night Lights"
and a Friday night football game. And I recollected something I had
learned a long time ago:
Boy, we're screwed up.
That's right, folks. Today I'm going to spare the MLS playoffs and
the NHL lockout and tackle the foundation of this nation - high
school sports!
Frankly, from where I sit, the more kids we put in a three-point
stance, the less likely we are to find bin Laden.
Because, starting with high school football, our priorities are a
bit misguided.
You see, high school football leads to college football.
College football leads to the BCS.
The BCS leads to a lot of ...