From 2011: Ben McGrath writes about the rise of a magnificently talented high-school player who went on to play for the New York Giants.
In his younger days, Toal resembled the actor John Ritter, only thicker. His hair is still light brown, for the most part, but sparser now, and his face bears the fleshiness of fifty-eight years. He has giant hams for calves, and walks with an ex-fullback’s pitched limp, so that he appears almost to be stumbling forward.
Another father once gushed to me that Toal insists that his players remain standing even when overexertion compels them to retch. “He thinks bending over is a sign of weakness,” the man said. Tickets for high-school games, if they are required at all, typically cost five dollars, with proceeds going to the home team, to cover insurance and equipment. Halloy figured that he could charge three or four times the usual amount by arranging marquee matchups between schools from states that prided themselves on producing homegrown football talent, promoting them heavily, and securing larger venues, where possible.
“They tell me I have to transcend the ordinary path,” Jabrill Peppers, a sophomore honor student who came up from the playgrounds outside Newark, says. Professional encroachment was normalized long ago in solo sports such as tennis and golf, thanks to internationally renowned coaching gurus like Nick Bollettieri and David Leadbetter, both of whom are now affiliated with IMG Academies, in Bradenton, the world headquarters for athletic prodigies.
On the day of the game, the digital thermometer outside Manatee High School showed ninety-five degrees. This was good news for Halloy, who’d been so concerned about hurricane season that he’d spurned ESPN’s overtures to televise the game, fearing that it might deflate attendance, and it was even better news to Joe Kinnan, the Manatee coach. At the press conference, Kinnan had cited the local humidity as one of his team’s unsung assets. The Ironmen were suspicious.
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