After Years of Fighting, a Praying Football Coach Got His Job Back. Now He’s Unsure He Wants It

After Years of Fighting, a Praying Football Coach Got His Job Back. Now He’s Unsure He Wants It
Joe Kennedy, a former assistant football coach at Bremerton High School football field in Bremerton, Wash., on March 9, 2022. Ted S. Warren/AP Photo
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BREMERTON, Wash.—An assistant high school football coach in Washington state who lost his job during a controversy over his public post-game prayers is back on the sideline after the U.S. Supreme Court held that his practice was protected by the Constitution.

But after fighting to be rehired for seven years, Joe Kennedy isn’t sure he wants it anymore, and the thought of kneeling in the spotlight again makes him queasy.