Louisa Thomas on the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee’s former role as a high-school football coach, and how his strengths as a leader might translate to his new contest.
“Coach,” she repeated. “Coach!” Walz pumped his fist. The crowd cheered and chanted as Walz beamed. Harris could have chosen the Arizona senator Mark Kelly as her running mate—an astronaut. Instead she chose the high-school football coach—molder of men, high priest of the American state religion. The only thing missing was the marching band. Football may be the last great bipartisan issue in the United States—N.F.L. games dominate the list of most-watched programs on television every year.
Walz spent games pacing in front of the bench, clapping his hands. At halftime, he’d give rousing speeches. “They would start calm, and build and build, and by the end he would make his final statement, and we would be ready to run through a brick wall,” Considine’s son, John, who was an offensive lineman on the state-championship team, told me. The specifics of what Walz said didn’t stick out in his mind. But maybe that was kind of the point.
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