Suburban Life football notebook: Nazareth’s Jackson Failla, after move from Pennsylvania, fitting in at QB

Jackson Failla had to do a lot of research in the offseason to prepare for his senior year.

Unlike most football players, Failla’s spring and early summer work leaned on a more central and important focus – finding a new football team to lead. His family moved from western Pennsylvania to the Chicago area when his dad’s job relocated.

The senior quarterback found his new destination in LaGrange Park. Failla joined the growing legion of standout quarterbacks at Nazareth , most notably Minnesota Vikings’ J.J. McCarthy, to be QB1 for the highly esteemed program.

“My dad has a lot of friends in Chicago,” Failla said. “All of them talked so highly of Nazareth. I checked it out and looked into it. I saw Illinois has eight classes, so that was kind of cool to me. I knew I was going to a stat