When I played high school football here back in the 1980s, Cotton Barlow’s legacy was still a big part of Bulldog sports. Along with Jerry Kramer, Sandpoint’s only NFL Hall of Famer, he expanded every local’s sense of potential. If you read his story, you’ll soon learn that he spent summers growing his shoulders and work ethic of buckin’ bales in Bonner County hayfields. I was lucky to get in on that before round bales and auto loaders made such work obsolete.