We said this was never happening in our house. We weren’t going to let the boys play football.

And yet somehow, last Thursday night, Bennett ran in the winning touchdown for his high school football team. Let me explain.

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In the early fall of 2020, several months into Covid, Bennett started talking about joining the football team, because he had a few friends on the team who wanted him to. Honestly, I ignored him. With three kids at home full-time Covid learning, and me at home full-time Covid working, I had no room in my brain to give this rational thought, and my sense of humor was at an all-time low, so this didn’t even seem funny. He knew we’d just always said no football, and none of the boys had wanted to play, so this all worked out fine.

Without me knowing, he started joining the team for…