Watching football is a great uniter of Americans. But actually playing football? That’s a different story.
Opinion polls and football-participation data show huge splits in the country about who want their children to play, as well as big differences by state in how many kids take the field under the Friday night lights. In large part, these differences follow familiar geographic and political splits, with conservative parts of the country tending to embrace football playing, and more liberal parts souring on it. CONT.
Dante Chinni (American U.), Wall Street Journal