After a few games, some of his players asked to join him. Soon after, he began kneeling to pray at the fifty-yard line after each game. Kennedy was hired in 2008 as assistant football coach for the varsity and head coach of the junior varsity squad at Bremerton High School near Seattle, Washington. While the headlines were focusing on Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter yesterday for $44 billion, an event involving a high school football coach could affect the future of religious liberty in America.įollowing a twenty-year career in the Marine Corps, Joseph A.