# Why Football Matters

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- Book: [Why Football Matters](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-edmundson/why-football-matters) ([Why Football Matters.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-edmundson/why-football-matters.md))
- Authors: [Mark Edmundson](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-edmundson)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-11-0163-572-8
- Published: 2014-09-04
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its men Football teaches young men self-discipline...