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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pogre" data-source="post: 8262095" data-attributes="member: 6588">I coach high school football and played college football and I don't get the fascination with the draft. I do find Mel Kiper amusing, so I tune in for a little bit.A story I have shared many times over the years here -When we played D&D in my small hometown our group was all "jocks". We all played football, wrestled or played basketball, did track, etc. D&D was just something we did once a week together on Sundays. There were nine of us and we would talk openly about D&D in the locker room, in front of our girlfriends, etc. We had a little trouble with a crowd from the local Nazarene church, but for the most part it was cool. Myself and one other player had an inkling our group was unusual because we also participated in the local large university club.Fast forward a few years and we decide to go to GenCon in 1984. It was at U of W Parkside and WOW! did we quickly realize we were NOT a normal gaming group. We had a great time anyway and I continued playing through college - even got a few teammates to try the game.The divide is still there a little bit in the high school I teach at, but it is not nearly as pronounced. I hope it helps that the football coach and track coach also runs the D&D club <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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