By Rick Moody
High-school quarterbacks, it’s reasonable to assume, look upon their high-school reunions as moments of triumph. Oh, those romantic conquests! Oh, those hagiographic articles in the local press, those tailgate parties, those long-ago legends – let us now relive them! What could be more Friday Night Lights, therefore, than the 20th reunion of Helena, Montana’s own Paul McKerrow, who was not only Helena High’s starting quarterback and football co-captain but its class valedictorian and the student voted most likely to succeed? Those of us who languished on the sidelines of high-school life can only imagine such a return. But was the grand entrance we’re imagining here really the stuff of local history? Or was it something else?