I don't know that I can argue with you about 1 and 3. It's hard to be an American boy in a small American midwestern town and not get sucked into football, though, especially because it really is a huge social status thing in high school. And it would still be a marker of "normal" for Clark reagrdless of whether his dad was a football star or not.

I'm a little waffly on #2, though. Jonathan had very good reason to suspect Luthors bearing gifts, and much as I love Lex, most of his interactions with the Kents in season 1 (when he was the least shady) were still pretty weighted with ulterior motives. I do agree that Clark and Jonathan both need to learn shades of gray, however.