This is an article from a guy who is writing a book. I liked the article, even tho my experience was not the same. The book may have some potential.
"My father wasn’t what anyone might call an over-involved parent. He was a Fifties Dad, committed to cigarettes, beer, cards, the ponies and a demanding job that kept the roof tight over our heads and food piled high on our plates. Out driving one evening, he gestured toward a formidable brick building and asked what it was. I told him it was my school. He quickly made up for this parental lapse by asking me what grade I was in.
But on things that really mattered, my father knew what he was doing."
"The best lines I know about a football education come from former Atlanta Falcons star defensive lineman Tim Green. “All our lives we’re getting knocked down,” “It happens to the richest, smartest, and most famous people. The difference with a kid that plays football is that for the rest of his life he knows how to get back up. . . . Football teaches kids to get up, over and over again, and that’s why you see so many people in successful positions in life, not who played in the NFL, but who played football at some level as a kid and learned that lesson that stayed with them in everything else they did.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/let-your-children-play-football/2014/08/22/7c764d68-2173-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"My father wasn’t what anyone might call an over-involved parent. He was a Fifties Dad, committed to cigarettes, beer, cards, the ponies and a demanding job that kept the roof tight over our heads and food piled high on our plates. Out driving one evening, he gestured toward a formidable brick building and asked what it was. I told him it was my school. He quickly made up for this parental lapse by asking me what grade I was in.
But on things that really mattered, my father knew what he was doing."
"The best lines I know about a football education come from former Atlanta Falcons star defensive lineman Tim Green. “All our lives we’re getting knocked down,” “It happens to the richest, smartest, and most famous people. The difference with a kid that plays football is that for the rest of his life he knows how to get back up. . . . Football teaches kids to get up, over and over again, and that’s why you see so many people in successful positions in life, not who played in the NFL, but who played football at some level as a kid and learned that lesson that stayed with them in everything else they did.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/let-your-children-play-football/2014/08/22/7c764d68-2173-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
