“White grew up in Wellington, Colo., population 350. There were only 13 players on the high school football squad, but they played a full season.”
In Montana we have Class C football in HS. It’s six man teams and good fun.
Montana State University in Bozeman has a very competitive skiing program and, many years ago even had a ski jump. A college student from Norway attended MSU for the alpine ski program.
One day an errant football came his way while he was jogging past the practice field and he was asked to toss the ball back. Instead he kicked it and that was the beginning of Jan Stenerud’s career...
I saw just the other day that he played at MSU and that he was a skiier. I figured there was a story in there somehow, and now I know!