1.   Playing football helps keep him out of mischief.

2.   An introvert by nature, he said, football helped him come out of his shell.

3.   Doris said he thinks football can help lure more male students to a school in which women have outnumbered men in recent years.

4.   Football helped keep Nguyen from becoming bitter.

5.   Football helped with that, too, but not at first.

6.   Football helps free Rubio from the limitations of autism.

7.   Hunter said the time off from school and football helped him to mature, and not being able to play during his redshirt season also helped.

8.   In a city that is trying so feverishly to heal from riots, natural disasters and now a controversial verdict, high school football can help.

9.   In the semi-rural setting, free from the distractions of the big city, high school football can help bring back those simpler days the town covets.

10.   Nevertheless, he said, pro football has helped project the image of a happening city.