sentences:  He went on to make the provocative claim in his 2008 folk history, "How Football Explains America", that the competition informed the public morality on integration and consciously developed in the mid-20th century into an almost mythic spectacle.With its origins in the closing of the Turnerian frontier, the NFL league, rather than baseball, apparently broke down the color barrier in sports.A native of Stewart Manor, New York, Paolantonio attended Sewanhaka High School.