Friday Night Lights, NPR edition

NPR is exploring high school football.

Starting with training camp and all through the 2009 season, NPR will bring you some of the stories, struggles and victories of high school football and the communities who support it, while also exploring the costs and the issues the sport raises.

In big cities and small towns across the country, high school football is the ritual that defines the fall. And for many young men, it is the ritual that defines who they are.

I never played football (I'm not exactly built for the sport), but I will be interested in seeing how this series plays out.