This is about high school football. If budgets are stretched thin and taxpayers (and their representatives) are looking for somthing to cut, they are free to consider cutting football. Therefore, the decision should be made by those who pay for football, not by football players. And, Patty Saxton, a school board member, had every right to make the comments that she made.

High school football players, who are still wet behind the ears, don't get to dictate school policy, as you suggested. The state (that you call Nanny) represents the people who pay the bills.