After football, my second favorite spectator sport is politics. It has good guys and bad guys. It has teams and seasons. It has games of greater and lesser importance, wins and losses, and its own versions of the playoffs. And I find that it gets a lot of the same sort of coverage and analysis as sports do.
Accordingly, I was very intersted in this recent Wall Street Journal article about the political leanings of football coaches:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204731804574386952311239532.html
I'm not enough of a political junkie that a coach's politics would influence how I root, just as I don't let the political leanings of a given actor diminish my enjoyment of his or her movie. But the underlying thesis is an interesting proposition: namely, that there may be some values native to coaching that resonate more naturally with conservative politics.
I don't think the article reflects a broad enough pool of coaches to qualify as proof of its thesis. Still, the hypothesis is an interesting one. What do you think of it?
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