Whicker: the schedule is set. Can the high schools bring it to life?

Contrary to the heavy breathing that you hear, there is no War on Football, not like the War on Cigarettes or Polio.
There is risk, as there is with crossing streets while wearing headphones. But no one is trying to extract football from our culture, as if that were possible.
Today the parks are full of high school quarterbacks throwing to high school receivers, or high school linemen stretching resistance bands.
The game is alive. It’s just homeless.
“We had 160 kids when we started