![]() He has another son who plays high school ball, and his oldest is off at college now, quarterbacking a Division III team. Like all other Pop Warner coaches, he gets paid exactly nothing. Five hundred miles in one day he’ll go, alone, studying Junior Midget games. It’s in November, and he’ll pick a day to celebrate, a Sunday, when there’s a Junior Midget game at 9 a.m. Like, for his birthday, the one day he can do whatever he wants. It’s tough to say who felt it worse, the kids or the coach. They lost in the first round at Disney last year and went home. Like you just got shot through the chest. Losing? Honestly, they had forgotten what it felt like to lose. Winning is communion, winning is sacrifice and pain, winning is a kind of birth. Youth sports involve a collective emotion unmatched at higher levels of play. Undefeated-and then throw a trip to Disney World on top of it? A Pee Wee couldn’t soar much higher than that, and neither could a Pee Wee parent or a Pee Wee coach.
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