America’s religion: Football

A high school in Dearborn, Michigan — home to one of the country’s largest population of Muslim Americans — is providing a lesson that when it comes to religion in America, football rules.

Let’s not stop there, as long as we’re on the topic of football.

This story, from St. Cloud, has nothing to do with religion and only a little to do with football. But it’s Friday and Friday is for forgetting about the worst in us.

Ever since she was little, Megan Bjorklund loved to dance, the St. Cloud Times reports. “A dream comes to fruition tonight for the eighth-grader with Down syndrome when she performs with the St. Cloud Cathedral dance team at halftime of the Crusaders’ football game.”

Her brother is on the team. He’ll stay on the field at halftime to watch.

Bjorklund, the first Down syndrome student at Cathedral, will watch her brother Bjorn, a running back, play in the game.