About 11 years ago, I was a high school football player down in Florida. I spent my afternoons and early evenings fighting off mosquitoes, heat and the humbling reality that neither me nor my team were very good at football. Our team was slow, we had no depth, and our only saving grace was the fact that we were too dumb to know how outrageously talented every other team in our division was. We lost, a lot, by a lot – to almost everyone. The first game of the year had us against Glades Day – a traditional football powerhouse that, [...]
