Although its participants are still in grade school, Pop Warner
football is serious business in Miami, where local teams routinely
advance to the national championships. Games draw thousands of
fans; recruiters vie for nascent talent; drug dealers and rap stars
bankroll teams; and the stakes are so high that games sometimes end
in gunshots. In America's poorest neighborhood, troubled parents
dream of NFL stardom for children who long only for a week in
Disney World at the Pop Warner Super Bowl. In 2001, journalist
Robert Andrew Powell spent a year following two teams through
roller-coaster seasons. The Liberty City Warriors, former national
champs, will suffer the team's first-ever losing season. The
Palmetto Raiders, undefeated for two straight years, will be
rewarded for good play with limo rides and steak dinners. But their
flamboyant coach (the "Darth Vader of youth football") will face
defeat in a down-to-the-wire playoff game. We Own This Game is an
inside-the-huddle look into a world of innocence and corruption,
where every kickoff bares political, social, and racial
implications; an unforgettable drama that shows us just what it is
to win and to lose in America.
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