Among the desk decorations, the occasional conventional baby photo seems almost ridiculously un-ironic, amid other personal props like a horde of model dinosaurs riding motorcycles, cuddly toy gremlins with shocking pink fur and knobbly yellow stressballs.
They stress that the kids play their hearts out and dive for loose balls and play fierce defense and embody those homespun values that Americans hold dear: teamwork, industry, selflessness.