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Sometimes I want people to feel the feeling you get when you walk up to the cashier at a grocery store and ask if they take food stamps.
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Welfare mothers make better lovers. Or so says Neil Young.
This was the only phrase I could think of as I watched the faith-based sports gem American Underdog with my 7 year old son Cole in a local movie theater. My son may never know what it will be like to be on welfare, to use food stamps or to play in the National Football League. Heck, the only thing he may end up retaining from this cinematic experience is that Arena League Football was once a thing and they had bizarre goal posts held together by netting.
“But what’s wrong with those goal posts?”, my son bellowed out loud in the darkened theater as I desperately tried to explain the history of Arena League Football to him in whispered, hushed tones. Would he remember this experience? I know I’ll certainly remember the fact that we watched the Disney football movie Invincible about 14 times in the past 2 years and that my son only refers to it as “Papale” (the character Mark Wahlberg plays was named Vincent Papale). This obsession led to my wife asking if I shouldn’t take him to this uplifting Kurt Warner biopic. I will also never forget his mind being…
