How football coaches became the vanguard of American conservatism

Coaches have long sacralized football as the fundament of America, extolling it alongside faith, family and the military as a setting stone of the social order. Head coach Tom Landry of the Dallas Cowboys waits to take the field with his team prior to the start of a game during the early 1980s. In a summer of reachy takes in football, University of North Carolina coach Larry Fedora reached further than anyone last week.