For many years youth football has been around. In Ohio, in a small town, my boys both play on a youth football team. Their father is their coach. Their grandfather coached their dad when he was young and played on the very same football team.
Our youth football team practices 5 nights a week and they have a game every Saturday. For two months of the year I am consumed with this sport, but I really know why. Playing football taught my boys lessons that they could not learn in the class room or by rough housing at home. These lessons are learned and practiced every fall, and my boys will carry them with them all their lives.