Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. (John Steinbeck)

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

John Steinbeck

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