By Tim Keown
ESPN The Magazine

Sunday, November 9, 2003

You really have to see this: 110 college football players, young American men between the ages of 18 and 22, supposedly in the full plumage of unrepentant cynicism, responding to a 75-year-old man in a pair of saggy, gray cotton shorts and a bright yellow sweater -- a man propping up two artificial hips with a hospital-issue metal cane -- as if he is the coolest living being on God's green earth. They lean toward him as he stands before them, the distinct smell of pregame anticipation and footba ...

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