This Is Where Football Starts: Coach Chuck "Chico" Kyle Talks "The Object Of The Game"

The Roundtable with Robert Bannon · Feb 8, 2026 · 18m

For Super Bowl week, we go straight to the roots of the game with Chuck Kyle, one of the most respected high school football coaches in history. After more than four decades shaping young men on and off the field, Coach Kyle is the subject of the new Amazon docuseries The Object of the Game, which follows his final season and the values that defined his career.

In this conversation, we talk about what football is really supposed to teach, why leadership matters more than wins, and how the lessons learned on high school fields echo all the way to Super Bowl Sunday. It’s a powerful reminder…