The Two Greatest Lessons that Football Teaches

by Frank DiCocco
Assistant Coach and Player Development Director, Stillman College
American Football Monthly April 2012 Issue Online

The values of respect and sacrifice are vital to the success of a team, an organization, a family, and a society as a whole.

I believe that the sport of football has the greatest teaching potential of perhaps any organized activity in our world today. This is because all of life is social, and we as humans are social beings. In the game of football, the first thing you must learn is the value of teamwork: a coordinated and cohesive effort on the part of many, in the pursuit of one goal....Login to Read More

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