There’s nothing more American than college football. The two go together like peanut butter and jelly.
That’s something that even US presidents have come to recognize over the years, using the spectacle and machismo of football to rally together support from the American people. The tradition of presidents attending the Army-Navy game to honor the troops has been around since Theodore Roosevelt started it in 1901.
But a more modern development is these seasoned politicians taking their Secret Service brigades into the luxury boxes of college football’s biggest matchups. On a couple occasions, that included visits to Arkansas football games back in the Razorbacks’ 20th century hey-days.