Paul Glavic is a nonfiction writer with work found in GQ, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. He’s currently writing his first book.
As many of college football’s top quarterbacks huddled around him and a few of high-school football’s élite passers peered from nearby seats, Peyton Manning proceeded through a motion he has completed more than nine thousand times in seventeen N.F.L. seasons, something monotonous to witness if not for privileged proximity: he dropped back to pass.
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As dawn rolled in on a Saturday in August, Hal Mumme jogged toward the practice field at Southern Methodist, sweat beaded below his visor, a towel draped around his neck. He slowed his pace to nod at a couple of high school coaches by the field’s entrance, men who had traversed Texas to make sense of the fuss at SMU.
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