When I was a football-crazed kid growing up in Wisconsin, the words of Vince Lombardi would play like a tape loop in my head. "Think of only three things," the disciplinarian coach would tell his players. "God, your family, and the Green Bay Packers."
Despite its narrow focus -- there were, after all, other things to think about back then, like race riots and Vietnam -- Lombardi's admonition hit home for a God-fearing Catholic boy growing up in Milwaukee. Every fall...
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