The Sad Fate of the Sports Parent
What’s left when your kid abandons your dreams and retires from competition?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Russell Bull / Star Tribune / Getty. Here’s to a New Generation of Classic Cars
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I didn’t quit on the American dream; it quit on me—and my generation. Now we need a different idea of the good life.
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The coach as general. The players as gladiators. Ed Sabol and his son, Steve, have spent the past half century at NFL Films, inventing the tropes of modern football. Color, slow motion, ubiquitous cameras and microphones, the omniscient narrator invoking the language of war—the Sabols pioneered all of this and, in so doing, helped make football the national game.
Courtesy of NFL Films Waiting for Ditka
Thirty years after he saved Chicago, the fabled Bears coach is everywhere—and nowhere.
