Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and wh…

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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 (1980). Travels with Charley in Search of America, p.126, Penguin
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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 (1980). Travels with Charley in Search of America, p.126, Penguin

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