If you're like me (and why would you want to be), you're wondering about the wisdom and propriety of having one national high school football All-Star game, much less two.

Yet, that's precisely where we are, with two nationally televised games tomorrow, the more established All-American Bowl from San Antonio at 1 p.m. on Channel 11, and the newcomer, the inaugural All-America Game from Walt Disney World, which airs at 2 p.m. on Channel 2.

These games, frankly, play to the fears of many that the previously relatively pristine world of high school athletics is being corrupted by new forms of programming for television. The kids who are playing in these games are missing a week of valuable class time to go on display in contests that have little bearing on what they do back at their own schools and, just as importantly, have little to no effect on the colleges they'll attend since most of them have already committed.

That said, if you must watch one of them, Baltimore audiences might have a bigger interest in the All-American Bowl since a local product, McDonogh guard Lane Clelland, will be playing in the game.