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kansas city, mo. — He has recorded dozens of songswritten by other people, but none has touched Kenny Chesney like “The Boys of Fall,” his most recent No. 1 single. The song, co-written by Casey
Beathard and Dave Turnbull, is an ode to football, especially high school football teams, the men who coach them and the small towns that embrace them. “It has been one of the best
journeys ofmy life,” Chesney said during a telephone interview, “to be able to spend a major part of the last year interviewing all kinds of people who have touched a lot of lives on and off the field.” That journey was the making
of the documentary “The Boys of Fall,” inspired by the video to the song. The documentary first aired on ESPN in August. Since mid-November, it has been avail- able on DVD atWal-mart. Chesney spent much of his
year away from touring working on the documentary. He will return to the concert circuit next year with the Zac Brown Band and others. But for now, he’s talking about
the video, which has nearly 4.5 million YouTube views. It opens with New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton address- ing the football team at Naper- ville (Ill.) Central High School, his alma mater. His sermon is about relishing the present and appreciating the blessings and rituals that will soon be gone, specifically the thrill of Friday night football games. “That feeling goes away and it
doesn’t come every Friday,” he tells the team. “It comes when you get married. It comes when your child is born. So you get it, but you just don’t get it every Friday night.” Chesney interviewed players
and coaches such as PeytonMan- ning, Brett Favre, Joe Namath, Bill Parcells, Mack Brown and Jim Tressel, all of whom discuss the game and what it has meant to them For Chesney, football was a
lifestyle, almost a religion, as it is in so many small towns. A lyric from the song goes: “In little towns like mine, that’s all they got /Newspaper clippings fill the coffee shops. “ “I grew up in an area where
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INSPIRING: Chesney says the film changed his outlook on life.
Tennessee. Football was all we had.” With that in mind, he began
his project, hoping to convey what footballmeant to him. “The video sentme on a path,”
he said, “and the more I worked on it, I almost became obsessed with it.” The film’s themes emerged
quickly, as the people he inter- viewed issued similar philoso- phies and advice. “You grow up in a small town
and you have big dreams or you see something you want, you think, ‘That can’t happen to me,’ ” he said. “I used to be one of those kids. I didn’t know how to go about pursuing a dream. “One of my favorite parts of
the filmiswhen Bill Parcells says that he wants young kids out there who really have a passion for football to ignore the re- straints, the voice in their heads that tells them, ‘You can’t.’ ” The other theme, he said,
came from the coaches and for- mer players like Namath, who talked about how the game and life play off each other. “Namath talks somuch about
how football is a team game,” Chesney said, “and he says, ‘It has taken me a long time to realize that life is a team game, too. You can’t do it alone.’ ” The process of making the
documentary and talking to so many successful and passionate men, Chesney said, has pro- foundly changed his outlook on himself and his career. “It awakened me as a person,
andmy life needed that,” he said. “So did my music. We all get in this mundane place now and then, and we need a bolt of energy to inspire us. Talking to all these guys and listening to the heart and passion they have for that, it inspired me to have the same kind of heart for what I do and to make the right choices and do things for the right reasons.”
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