[Bryan24]

I’d LOVE to see any scintilla of evidence that Barack Obama ever played Pop Warner football.

http://www.popwarner.com/About_Us/history.htm

[kvanbrunt2]

you missed it. from the article you posted. it’s right there:
But football was for boys and barack felt left out. Cheering from the stands wasn’t enough. he wanted, somehow, to share in the excitement and fun down on the field. So Pop Warner introduced a new activity: cheerleading. Obama loved it, and during the 1970s this new branch of Pop Warner grew rapidly.