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After having an incredible coaching career at the University of Oklahoma, Bud Wilkerson responded to a request to head up the President’s Council on Physical Fitness. After a year on the job, he called a press conference. One of the reporters asked him why football is good for this country. Everyone expected a ten-minute pep-talk on the greatness of football. Wilkerson’s response was shocking. “Football,” he said, “is terrible for this country.” Why? “Football is 80,000 men desperately in need of exercise watching twenty-two men desperately in need of rest.”
After having an incredible coaching career at the University of Oklahoma, Bud Wilkerson responded to a request to head up the President’s Council on Physical Fitness. After a year on the job, he called a press conference. One of the reporters asked him why football is good for this country. Everyone expected a ten-minute pep-talk on the greatness of football. Wilkerson’s response was shocking. “Football,” he said, “is terrible for this country.” Why? “Football is 80,000 men desperately in need of exercise watching twenty-two men desperately in need of rest.”
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Solid and convicting.