If there has ever been a week when I had no idea why the topic should be written about, this is the week. I had to do research before writing this column. For me, that’s unheard of. Research makes it feel like work. But this week it was necessary.

It’s football time in Cherokee. From youth to high school, to college, hundreds of young people all over this county are suiting up to play a game I love. Every year about this time, I watch football movies in preparation for the new season.

This year I’ve watched Friday Night Lights and The Junction Boys. The Junction Boys is the story about football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant’s first season coaching at Texas A&M. The movie portrayed him not only as tough, but almost sadistic. Coach Bryant, refusing to allow players water in the hot Texas heat l

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