For some reason, grass clippings in late summer smell differently than newly mown grass clippings in early spring. Late summer grass clippings smell like football season. It's a great time of the year. There weren't a lot of robots in my hometown. Hardly anyone I knew had one. I don't recall any robots hanging around Main Street before or after I finished playing high school football. But there were robots on television every week. They acted as butlers, maids, friends - why not football players? Lately, I've been thinking about those irrational fears as I try to figure out how our public schools deteriorated so badly. Since there aren't any rational or logical explanations for the way the public schools in Orleans Parish have been allowed to decline, there must be some crazy ones.