How I Won the ’89 State Championship

Thanksgiving is a time for memories. If you’re like me, you probably spent the whole weekend eating leftover turkey and continuing to take joy in the things for which thankfulness grows more powerful over the years. I’m supremely grateful for so many gifts, particularly those of my youth in small-town Indiana. Here’s a Thanksgiving memory that keeps coming back to me, one that marks an important anniversary this year. I have been remembering how, thirty-five years ago, on the day after Thanksgiving in 1989, my high school football team won the Class A Indiana Football State Championship. And, though it’s easy for our memories to be distorted by the passage of time, I think I have a claim to the responsibility for that win.