Texas has the best - developed high
school football culture in the country.
Not exact matches
In our Tongan
Culture, we are so closely connected by a mutual relative / friend as this is what a high
school football game feels like to me — we all come together to support our kids and I enjoy every minute of it.
While I am not prone to writing in the somewhat snarky and definitly sarcastic tone Wise employed in his Tuesday column, and although he seemed to mostly align himself with the group at Aspen - led by Dr. Bob Cantu - that views
football as too dangerous to be played before the age of 14 (a position with which I respectfully disagree), I did find myself agreeing with what seemed to be his main point: that whatever measures are instituted to protect player safety will get us nowhere if the
culture on NFL fields (and by extension, the high
school, middle
school, and youth gridiron) doesn't change.
I was really interested in hearing how exactly they proposed to do that, especially in terms of changing the macho
culture of the sport and breaking the «code of silence» that continues to prompt players at every level of
football, whether it be N.F.L., college, high
school or youth - to hide concussion symptoms in order to stay in the game and avoid being perceived as somehow letting their coach, their teammates, or their parents down.
Much has been said about the town, it's
culture, and it's handling of a disturbing act allegedly carried out by boys on the high
school football team who refer to themselves as the «rape crew.»
Two, in any organized endeavor, whether that be
football or
schooling, it is professional
culture that is the key to excellence.
The role of an individual teacher in a
school is like a player on a
football team or musician in an orchestra: all teachers are vital, but the
culture of the
school is even more important for the quality of the
school.
Moving deeper into the first gallery, one encounters Catherine Opie's chromogenic print
Football Landscape # 12 (2008), a vivid, wide - angle view of a Texas high
school game in progress and a telling glimpse of regional American
culture.