November 2, 2023 • 28 mins
Digging deeper on Jesse Plemons and his Landry Clarke / Tommy Harbor connection in multiple fictional high school football productions.
Illinois team wakes up coach to celebrate high school football playoffs.
North Dakota high school holds snow tarp down with whatever it can find.
Deer evades referee on the field.
Scariest things y'all ever saw at a high school football game.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, it's time for Go Fight When the show
with all the high school football stories you love. On
this week's episode, a mysterious connection between a seemingly unrelated
high school football movie and high school football TV series,
plus some great stories from all around the country, including
a deer on the field, a tarp covered field anchored
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down by all kinds of miscellaneous objects that protected the
turf from a blizzard, and a high school football team
that tried to wake up its coach because they made
the playoffs. Hey, Halloween is over, but y'all still sent
in some of the scariest encounters you've ever had at
high school football games. So we're going to dig into
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those as well. It's time for Go Fight When. Huddle up.
We was just get the ball to Donny Couge and
let that pudge you go. Hey all, welcome into Go
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Fight Win. It is November. It is playoff time in
this sport that we all love. You're standing down there
on the field, you start to feel that cold November
winter air seeping in between your toes. Doesn't matter how
many pairs of socks you got on, doesn't matter how
many handwarmers you got down there in your boots. You
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feel old Father Christmas lurking around doing army crawls, doing
bear crawls on the field, and just blowing on your toes,
freezing you out, giving you a little frigid feeling that
the end of your season is a loss away. The
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leaves are rustling, They're not on the trees for too
much longer. They're getting edged out too And by the
time all those leaves are gone, well, somebody and you
and your classification in your state will have a crown
of glory upon their heads. Will it be your team?
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Did you make the playoffs? Are you gonna persist? Are
you gonna survive in advance? Or are you gonna be
stuck at home watching every round on public television. This
is the time of year that you live for. I
love it, I love watching it. I love living vicariously
through your teams. So if you are supporting, go fight wins,
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supporting your own team, give the show a like, give
it a follow, and tell your booster club about it,
Tell your coach about it, tell your team about it.
We're here just celebrating all the wonderful, weird things that
happen in a high school football season. This is my
love letter to the game, to the sport. I hope
it never changes, even though I know it is. It's
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a pure, pure game and a lot of other iterations
of football are rubbing people the wrong way. I still
love the NFL, I still love college football, but it's
hard to beat the sanctity and the absurdity of high
school football. So that's what we're doing here. You can
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also find yourself a nice Coffeetown football hat, nice Coffeetown
football T shirt, shirt or hoodie or sweatshirt, crew necks,
coffee mugs, all the stuff you need to keep you warm,
bundled up. Go get you one over at gocoffeetown dot
com in the team store. Let's start with some stories
from around the United States of America. The first one
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I saw which really impressed me was this Illinois high
school football team, Antioch High School, the Sequoites, the Sequiats Sequoites.
I don't know it's one of the two, but this
tweet here is from the Illinois High School Association and
(04:00):
the video original. What a wake up call for Antioch
High School football coach hashtag football coach Brian glash Hogel
and his family ahead of the Sekoits first round IHSA
playoff game. Look at this pov. This is what the
TikTok video says. From Sarah Glaishagel point of view. It's
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six thirty am. You're married to the head coach of
a high school football team who just made the playoffs
and went undefeated. You wake up to the football team,
cheerleaders and the marching band standing outside your house singing
the school fight song. This was a gamble from everyone involved.
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How do you know coaches there? How do you know
coach didn't wake up early, start lifting at the fieldhouse
around four am, watching film up there of the team's opponent. Well,
it turns out coach was there and did get way
making up and this story here from the Daily Herald.
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Just as his alarm was about to sound Wednesday morning,
Brian Glashagel was awakened by a strange noise outside his
bedroom window. John Deets, writing the story here half away
Antiox football coach rolled out of bed, looked outside and
stared into the yard in disbelief. The team, the cheerleaders,
the band singing the fight song. Go Sekoites, Go Fight,
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Sekoits Fight. When when win? Hey go fight, win. It's
right there in the fight song love It. This was
the idea of someone related to the team here. Sue
Day son Nick is the starting fullback and broke the
school record for rushing yards and touchdowns on the same
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play on Friday. Day has been president of the Gridiron Group,
which supports all levels of the football program, since her
oldest son, Evan, was a senior in twenty eighteen. That's great.
I mean, look, the full back is just gonna go
and get things done out there. We've established that here
on this show. There's no doubt that the fullback's mama
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has that same spirit. She might as well have a
cowboy caller on herself, just taking on life one day
at a time. Apparently it's a playoff week tradition for
Day and other moms to use the cover of darkness
to decorate the coach's house in a bunch of ways.
But this was a little bit different. It was signs
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and balloons one year, then another year it was a
blow up helmet and balloons. But then it was toilet
paper and striping the lawn to make it look like
a football field. And this is just a continuation of
Sue Day one upping herself and all the team moms.
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Who knows what they'll do next year. Did Antioch go
on to win the game? Yes, and the tactic worked.
They beat Inglewood's stem sixty three to eight. Antioch was
the three seed in the state playoffs in Illinois, out
scored opponents four hundred and seventy two to one hundred
and thirty four during a nine and zero season. So
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do whatever it takes weight coach up every single week.
If I'm coach, I'm getting out of there a little
earlier and I'm getting my head right because every round
of the state playoffs gets a little bit more difficult.
And I'll tell you what if I don't like it,
If y'all aren't performing up to your standard, if you're
not loud enough, y'all are all doing bear crawls, even
you and the band, brass section, drum line, drop that
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gear and get down and give me some pushups. Dang it.
We need you all on the same page. We need
y'all to have that same energy. If you're gonna come
here and wake me up, That to me is what
high school football is all about. Though, got the whole team.
Imagine trying to sell the band, trying to sell the cheerleaders,
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the football team on getting up early just to go
mess with coach? Did they need TikTok to motivate them?
Did they need to say, hey, it's going to be
on TikTok, let's go do it. Or do you think
that their hearts were beating for the game and for
the team. That's what I'm choosing to believe, all right,
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somewhere a little bit colder here, where's this North Dakota?
Justin Prestigard tagged at go Coffeetown on x in this post.
The original post is from Zach Keenan TV, and Zach
works at KMOT Television, which is in north central North Dakota.
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They're practically up there in the North Pole. This is
practically they're covering Santa Claus. They're covering Christmas. They are
the first boots on the ground determining whether or not
Santa Claus has left. They beat Norad. They get the
information about Old Saint Nick before Norad. But they also
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cover high school football. So here's what Zach Keenan posted.
A few days ago. Fans from West Hope, Newburgh and
glen Burn laid out a tarp Tuesday, held down by
hay bales and tires. Today they shoveled thousands of pounds
of snow and unrolled a tarp to reveal a totally
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dry grass field. Sue hosts Grant City on Saturday. Hashtag
North Dakota Preps. So the video here is amazing, and
this was sent out on October twenty eighth. I live
in Georgia. I've never in my life seen snow on
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October twenty eighth, and I don't think that I ever will,
at least not here in the Peach State. But in
North Dakota there's snow on the ground. I think three
hundred and sixty two days a year. They get a
three day spring where it all melts for a little
bit and then they get a little bit more. That's
what all my meteorologists friends told me. Anyway, they might
have been pulling my leg, but they got this thing
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covered in a tarp. And not only is the tarp
out there, it is every object you can imagine. They
got tires, they got hay bales, they got a bobcat
pitchfork unraveling the tarp. They have everything out there to
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keep the snow off the field and preserve it for
the game. All right. So they had their game and
this was actually I'm looking up on max preps here
to actually get the full story. It's not Grant City,
it's Grant County and they were playing not Sue. They
were playing a school called West Hope Newburgh glen Burn.
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Glenn Burns is actually the meteorologist in Atlanta where I
grew up. So that's a you know, this thing's come
full circle. Glen Burn was dealing with some weather, but
West Hope Newburgh glen Burns all one school. I'm learning myself.
I have a lot to educate myself on here. There's
not a lot of snow in October where I'm from,
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certainly not covering a high school football field because you're
worried about thousands of pounds of snow. I have not
even existed to see thousands of pounds of snow hit
the state of Georgia in my lifetime. But they got
it all. And what happened when West Hope Newburgh glen
Burns played Grant County co Op, which is also a
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bunch of different names. Carson Elgin, New Leipzig Flasher, is
that that's when of Santa's Reindeers well West Hope Newburgh
glen Burns one fifty two to twenty two. But they
did have the game, and that was part of the
twenty twenty three North Dakota High School football playoff bracket.
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So Glenn Burns is moving on. I always respected his work.
It was a little you know, it was always a
little embellished. You know. I thought that there was going
to beat thousands of pounds of snow and we would
just get a couple of flurries, but we'd still get
school off. I mean, that was never up for debate.
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You were watching to see if the roads were gonna freeze,
and we just needed one little snowflake and we'd be good.
We'd be out for the day and we'd make a
snowball and then go back inside. West Hope Newburgh glen
Burns is now going to play North Prairie co Op
in the nine man team, the nine man football teams.
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They lost a couple guys out there in the snow,
I guess, and they're just gonna keep rolling on the
nine man football bracket. Glen Burne, Newburgh West Hope are
in the semi finals. But it's just interesting to me that,
you know, the same sport can be so different just
based on the weather. This time of year. We're not
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getting any snow down here in Georgia. We might have
a little bit of frost on the field, a little
bit of mud, a little bit of fog that'll roll
in from time to time, but no snow, no snow
tarps on our high school football fields. That is not
in the budget, all right. How about a couple of
states over Washington State. Someone sent this video to me
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a deer out there on the field, and we talked
about a bear on the practice field, I think the
first episode we did, and some deer on the drive home.
You gotta watch out for those. But this is a
big buck here from Chris Egan out of King five Television,
and that's in Seattle, Washington. Chris tweeted too many players
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on the field last night during the Styley football what
is styley styl of Coomb Sentinels and they were playing
Fife High School. Too many players on the field last
night during the style of Komb Fife game. And this
is a buck thing's got horns on it. Video is
a little too grainy. I can't see how many points
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it has, but it's big and it just hops that fence.
And here's the deal. There's a lot of a lot
of things going on. The ref is chasing the deer,
and there are fans at the fence and they don't,
you know, they hardly move. This must be a common occurrence.
They're seeing bucks out there on the field. But this
guy was agile. Here. It is a big deer, quick
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on the hoof. You got to watch out for these
deer during the game, though. And then they go this.
This buck just hops over, leaves the game, leaves the field,
and then there's a barbed wire fence behind the stadium.
The deer just kind of disappears. I hope it's all right,
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But I love to see some wild life at a
high school football game. There's nothing like it. Speaking of
wildlife at a high school football game, some of the
scariest things y'all encountered, and I've encountered at high school
football games. As we transition from Halloween time to a
much scarier time of year, elimination time in the high
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school football playoffs, that can be pretty frightening too, all right,
So Halloween, I asked y'all to share the scariest things
that ever happened to you at a high school football game.
And let me start off with my response. This is
kind of what fueled it. I was covering a high
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school football game in Perry, Georgia, almost ten years ago now,
but there was a demonstration that had a bird of
prey on the field before the game, a live hawk.
It's a big hawk, and you can see the picture
if you're watching on YouTube. This hawk landed right beside me.
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And you know, a lot of times for these games,
I'd go pick up a snack. I'd go get a
little something because you never really knew if you're going
to be able to find anything in the concession stand
that you could eat, or if it was up, if
it was running or what. So, you know, I'd pick
up something, leave a little bit early, and usually get
like some beef jerky and get a little sustenance. Well,
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i hadn't eaten my beef jerky yet, and I'm down
there on the field and this dude's got like the
big leather glove on, he's got the straps, he's got
the raw chicken whatever he uses to get this bird
of prey to not fly away. And this thing has
some big talents, man, and I get this picture about
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field level, turf level. I'm down here, right by the
blades of grass, and all of a sudden, this bird.
I don't know if birds can smell, but he knew
I had, he knew I was carrying. And I've been
run over by a referee at a football game. People
from the band have bumped into me with big instruments.
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People have thrown things at me from the stands. Giant
like I think there was a Teddy Bear one time
hit me in the head. But I've never been so
scared at a high school football game as I was
when this hawk eyes me down my beef jerky right
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there in my front pocket. I got a couple of kids.
Now they didn't know it at the time, but they
were in danger in that moment. I live to tell
the tale, thankfully. So that was my scary story. Some
other ones. Luke Haigdorn On consecutive nights in district play,
the press box had an electric fire at Lebanon. It
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was like the scene from Hoosiers. Afterwards, with everyone following
the buses back to the jod to finish the game.
On a Saturday night, you never know when when a
fire is going to break out. In the press box,
Shelley Creed responded, remember it well, longest high school game
in Missouri history, at least at that time. It's probably
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still true today. Yes, more electrical issues from Nick Sweat,
Johnson County taken on Hancock Central and Sparta, Georgia. The
field lights timer was set for ten thirty. The game
took forever and Joco scores with about a minute left
to go up fifty four to thirty six before the
extra point. The lights go out, Players and fans scatter,
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and the game is called with time on the clock.
There already are not many lights down there in Sparta.
See in the heat of the night, there's not a
lot of lights down there, and when they go out,
you don't want to be outside. It's not always safe
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for a lot of people. So yeah, that would terrify
me too. I'd be booking it. I'd be in my car,
be going back to make In or driving south to
Tampa or wherever they would have me, because I wouldn't
be caught out there in the dark of Sparta, Georgia.
Kyle Benjamin says, having a ball kicked at me on
kickoff return as a sophomore in a rivalry game. That's
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part of the job. Man. We were undefeated as freshmen.
We only played six games, but our very last game,
I was on the hands team for the on side kick.
We were, you know, just nursing this game, and coach
gets in my ear hold and says, if this ball
comes to you blanket ship and you run, I will
kill you. So I didn't touch it, didn't even try.
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I believed him's kickoff returns, especially in a rivalry game
or when something's at stake, if you're not meant to
be the return man, that can make your knees shake
a little bit. Here's from Mike Fowler. The year is
nineteen ninety seven. Great year. I'm a freshman and a
proud marching trojan. We are taking the stands after pregame
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and a senior football players shoulder checks me as we
walk by. I was certain he was going to kill me.
Turns out he didn't even realize I was there. Laser focus.
He didn't know you were there. No offense, Mike. He
didn't even know where the sound came from. In the band,
y'all might as well have invisibility cloaks on from Hogwarts.
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What else we go do? A couple more here? John
jp Mundy says took a direct snap to the solar
plexus while walking through w F football warm ups. What
is that, West Forsythe I think the solar plexus is
like your sternam? Is that what that is somewhere in
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your leg? Maybe it's a solar plexus? Sounds okay. The
solar plexus is a complex system of radiating nerves and ganglia.
That sounds bad. You definitely don't want to get a
football there. Yeah, it seems like there's a lot going
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on in the solar plexus. It really has nothing to
do with space, which surprises me. You gotta watch out
for those snaps. They'll come at you and take you down.
Last one from dog Sports had angry fans from Dodge
County throw bricks at us, but it was okay, like
the football team throwing wasn't really their strength. Dang, I
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guess you're the closest you are to what do they say,
the closer you are to danger, the further you are
from harm, especially when Dodge County's out there throwing bricks
at you. All Right, how about a story that seems
too good to be true? All right, how about a
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story a character, two different characters, one actor, and a
high school football crossroads that you got to know about.
You might not be aware of it, but I'm about
to educate you. Jesse Plemons is an actor that was
on Friday Night Lights TV series. He played Landry coach
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Kyle Chandler. Coach Eric Taylor called him Lance, So just
a classic mix up. Always funny when you call someone
the wrong name, either on purpose or on accident, but
you just kind of mix up the rest of the word.
After the first letter, Landry becomes Lance, and all of
a sudden, the nickname is born. Right while I was
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watching Varsity Blues rese and guess who shows up in
Varsity Blues but Landry. Landry's got a troubled past, even
in Varsity. Even in Friday Night Lights that second season,
affected by the writers strike, he had a love interest
with with a girl who was way out of his league, Tyra,
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and he kills a man. Landry kills a man in
the writers Strike season and they never talk about it again.
They just kind of own up to the fact that
that probably wasn't the best part of his story arc,
and he just gets away with it, gets nervous for
a little bit there. His dad's a cop, and they
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you know, they kind of hint at a cover up
and that kind of thing. But for something so significant
to happen in one of the strangest seasons ever of television,
not just in Friday Night Lights history, you kind of
just forget about it. You forget that he killed the
guy trying to protect Tyro, but he does. He gets
away with it and then kind of pursues this emo
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path in the show. But before he was in Friday
Night Lights, before Landry killed a guy, guess who he was?
He was Lance Harbor's little brother and Varsity Blues who
makes fun of Jonathan Moxin, Harbor's backup Harbor played by
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Paul Walker. Rest in Peace Moxin played by James Vanderbeek.
And I've attempted to get this man on the show, Moxhin,
but they got this thing called a sag strike going on,
and that means the actors don't talk. They're not even
allowed to go trick or treating apparently, so I can't
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get him on. Maybe one day, maybe as the show
continues to grow, we can talk about it and talk
to Jesse Plemons. But Jesse Plemons now in Children of
the Flower Moon. I think that's what it's called, Killing
of the Flower Moon. What's the movie called flower Moon?
Leonardo DiCaprio's in it, Killers of the Flower Moon, And
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Jesse Plemons is in this movie, and he's got a
pretty big role. It looks like he's a policeman. What's
his name, Tom White? So he investigates these killings down
at the at the reservation. But anyway, before he did
all that, and before he's in the spotlight for Killers
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of the Flower Moon, Plemons as Harbor's brother, what was
his actual name here, Tommy Harbor was sitting there roasting
Jonathan Moxon because of his football skills. Little did they
know moxin was going to be one of the coolest, calmest,
most collected quarterbacks they'd ever seen. But the fact that
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he grows up becomes Landry, becomes Lance when his brother's
name was Lance, and varsity Blues and he kills a guy.
It's just one of the more remarkable fictional high school
football storylines you're ever gonna hear about, More interesting than
Donny Chuggs, more interesting than reptile Henderson. Is it the
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same guys he look alike in the same universe or
is it just a coincidence. Who knows. He grew up
seeing a lot of things there in Varsity Blues, that
town was rotten to its core for football. That he
brings some of that with him to Dylan when he
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grew up and became Landry. It's possible. I'm not ruling
it out. Landry Clark is who he played and didn't
have a huge role on the football team. He was
just kind of around, did enough to catch Tyre's eye
for a part of a season, and then the rest
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is history. He became a murderer and we'll never forget
about that either. I haven't seen Killers of the Flower
Moon yet. I don't know if there's any kind of
football tie over there connection there. I'll have to investigate further,
and if there's an update, I will provide it. I
appreciate y'all listening to go Fight Win. Get some more
guests roll in here as we keep going through the playoffs.
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It's fall Break, though a little bit different episode here.
Fall Break. No guests, just me flapping my gums about
all these stories that y'all have shared with me and
I appreciate it. And when we don't have a guest,
we'll just talk about guys like Landry Clark, who killed
a guy, but before he killed a guy, he was
also just killing Jonathan Moxon because of his football skills.
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I love high school football movies high school football shows.
I mean I could do an entire episode on Booby Miles,
the real life guy and the movie characterization of them,
and who's to say I won't. Y'all watch out for
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Hey, y'all, it's time for Go Fight When the show
with all the high school football stories you love. On
this week's episode, a mysterious connection between a seemingly unrelated
high school football movie and high school football TV series,
plus some great stories from all around the country, including
a deer on the field, a tarp covered field anchored
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down by all kinds of miscellaneous objects that protected the
turf from a blizzard, and a high school football team
that tried to wake up its coach because they made
the playoffs. Hey, Halloween is over, but y'all still sent
in some of the scariest encounters you've ever had at
high school football games. So we're going to dig into
(00:41):
those as well. It's time for Go Fight When. Huddle up.
We was just get the ball to Donny Couge and
let that pudge you go. Hey all, welcome into Go
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Fight Win. It is November. It is playoff time in
this sport that we all love. You're standing down there
on the field, you start to feel that cold November
winter air seeping in between your toes. Doesn't matter how
many pairs of socks you got on, doesn't matter how
many handwarmers you got down there in your boots. You
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feel old Father Christmas lurking around doing army crawls, doing
bear crawls on the field, and just blowing on your toes,
freezing you out, giving you a little frigid feeling that
the end of your season is a loss away. The
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leaves are rustling, They're not on the trees for too
much longer. They're getting edged out too And by the
time all those leaves are gone, well, somebody and you
and your classification in your state will have a crown
of glory upon their heads. Will it be your team?
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Did you make the playoffs? Are you gonna persist? Are
you gonna survive in advance? Or are you gonna be
stuck at home watching every round on public television. This
is the time of year that you live for. I
love it, I love watching it. I love living vicariously
through your teams. So if you are supporting, go fight wins,
(02:31):
supporting your own team, give the show a like, give
it a follow, and tell your booster club about it,
Tell your coach about it, tell your team about it.
We're here just celebrating all the wonderful, weird things that
happen in a high school football season. This is my
love letter to the game, to the sport. I hope
it never changes, even though I know it is. It's
(02:54):
a pure, pure game and a lot of other iterations
of football are rubbing people the wrong way. I still
love the NFL, I still love college football, but it's
hard to beat the sanctity and the absurdity of high
school football. So that's what we're doing here. You can
(03:14):
also find yourself a nice Coffeetown football hat, nice Coffeetown
football T shirt, shirt or hoodie or sweatshirt, crew necks,
coffee mugs, all the stuff you need to keep you warm,
bundled up. Go get you one over at gocoffeetown dot
com in the team store. Let's start with some stories
from around the United States of America. The first one
(03:39):
I saw which really impressed me was this Illinois high
school football team, Antioch High School, the Sequoites, the Sequiats Sequoites.
I don't know it's one of the two, but this
tweet here is from the Illinois High School Association and
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the video original. What a wake up call for Antioch
High School football coach hashtag football coach Brian glash Hogel
and his family ahead of the Sekoits first round IHSA
playoff game. Look at this pov. This is what the
TikTok video says. From Sarah Glaishagel point of view. It's
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six thirty am. You're married to the head coach of
a high school football team who just made the playoffs
and went undefeated. You wake up to the football team,
cheerleaders and the marching band standing outside your house singing
the school fight song. This was a gamble from everyone involved.
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How do you know coaches there? How do you know
coach didn't wake up early, start lifting at the fieldhouse
around four am, watching film up there of the team's opponent. Well,
it turns out coach was there and did get way
making up and this story here from the Daily Herald.
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Just as his alarm was about to sound Wednesday morning,
Brian Glashagel was awakened by a strange noise outside his
bedroom window. John Deets, writing the story here half away
Antiox football coach rolled out of bed, looked outside and
stared into the yard in disbelief. The team, the cheerleaders,
the band singing the fight song. Go Sekoites, Go Fight,
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Sekoits Fight. When when win? Hey go fight, win. It's
right there in the fight song love It. This was
the idea of someone related to the team here. Sue
Day son Nick is the starting fullback and broke the
school record for rushing yards and touchdowns on the same
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play on Friday. Day has been president of the Gridiron Group,
which supports all levels of the football program, since her
oldest son, Evan, was a senior in twenty eighteen. That's great.
I mean, look, the full back is just gonna go
and get things done out there. We've established that here
on this show. There's no doubt that the fullback's mama
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has that same spirit. She might as well have a
cowboy caller on herself, just taking on life one day
at a time. Apparently it's a playoff week tradition for
Day and other moms to use the cover of darkness
to decorate the coach's house in a bunch of ways.
But this was a little bit different. It was signs
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and balloons one year, then another year it was a
blow up helmet and balloons. But then it was toilet
paper and striping the lawn to make it look like
a football field. And this is just a continuation of
Sue Day one upping herself and all the team moms.
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Who knows what they'll do next year. Did Antioch go
on to win the game? Yes, and the tactic worked.
They beat Inglewood's stem sixty three to eight. Antioch was
the three seed in the state playoffs in Illinois, out
scored opponents four hundred and seventy two to one hundred
and thirty four during a nine and zero season. So
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do whatever it takes weight coach up every single week.
If I'm coach, I'm getting out of there a little
earlier and I'm getting my head right because every round
of the state playoffs gets a little bit more difficult.
And I'll tell you what if I don't like it,
If y'all aren't performing up to your standard, if you're
not loud enough, y'all are all doing bear crawls, even
you and the band, brass section, drum line, drop that
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gear and get down and give me some pushups. Dang it.
We need you all on the same page. We need
y'all to have that same energy. If you're gonna come
here and wake me up, That to me is what
high school football is all about. Though, got the whole team.
Imagine trying to sell the band, trying to sell the cheerleaders,
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the football team on getting up early just to go
mess with coach? Did they need TikTok to motivate them?
Did they need to say, hey, it's going to be
on TikTok, let's go do it. Or do you think
that their hearts were beating for the game and for
the team. That's what I'm choosing to believe, all right,
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somewhere a little bit colder here, where's this North Dakota?
Justin Prestigard tagged at go Coffeetown on x in this post.
The original post is from Zach Keenan TV, and Zach
works at KMOT Television, which is in north central North Dakota.
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They're practically up there in the North Pole. This is
practically they're covering Santa Claus. They're covering Christmas. They are
the first boots on the ground determining whether or not
Santa Claus has left. They beat Norad. They get the
information about Old Saint Nick before Norad. But they also
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cover high school football. So here's what Zach Keenan posted.
A few days ago. Fans from West Hope, Newburgh and
glen Burn laid out a tarp Tuesday, held down by
hay bales and tires. Today they shoveled thousands of pounds
of snow and unrolled a tarp to reveal a totally
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dry grass field. Sue hosts Grant City on Saturday. Hashtag
North Dakota Preps. So the video here is amazing, and
this was sent out on October twenty eighth. I live
in Georgia. I've never in my life seen snow on
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October twenty eighth, and I don't think that I ever will,
at least not here in the Peach State. But in
North Dakota there's snow on the ground. I think three
hundred and sixty two days a year. They get a
three day spring where it all melts for a little
bit and then they get a little bit more. That's
what all my meteorologists friends told me. Anyway, they might
have been pulling my leg, but they got this thing
(10:14):
covered in a tarp. And not only is the tarp
out there, it is every object you can imagine. They
got tires, they got hay bales, they got a bobcat
pitchfork unraveling the tarp. They have everything out there to
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keep the snow off the field and preserve it for
the game. All right. So they had their game and
this was actually I'm looking up on max preps here
to actually get the full story. It's not Grant City,
it's Grant County and they were playing not Sue. They
were playing a school called West Hope Newburgh glen Burn.
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Glenn Burns is actually the meteorologist in Atlanta where I
grew up. So that's a you know, this thing's come
full circle. Glen Burn was dealing with some weather, but
West Hope Newburgh glen Burns all one school. I'm learning myself.
I have a lot to educate myself on here. There's
not a lot of snow in October where I'm from,
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certainly not covering a high school football field because you're
worried about thousands of pounds of snow. I have not
even existed to see thousands of pounds of snow hit
the state of Georgia in my lifetime. But they got
it all. And what happened when West Hope Newburgh glen
Burns played Grant County co Op, which is also a
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bunch of different names. Carson Elgin, New Leipzig Flasher, is
that that's when of Santa's Reindeers well West Hope Newburgh
glen Burns one fifty two to twenty two. But they
did have the game, and that was part of the
twenty twenty three North Dakota High School football playoff bracket.
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So Glenn Burns is moving on. I always respected his work.
It was a little you know, it was always a
little embellished. You know. I thought that there was going
to beat thousands of pounds of snow and we would
just get a couple of flurries, but we'd still get
school off. I mean, that was never up for debate.
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You were watching to see if the roads were gonna freeze,
and we just needed one little snowflake and we'd be good.
We'd be out for the day and we'd make a
snowball and then go back inside. West Hope Newburgh glen
Burns is now going to play North Prairie co Op
in the nine man team, the nine man football teams.
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They lost a couple guys out there in the snow,
I guess, and they're just gonna keep rolling on the
nine man football bracket. Glen Burne, Newburgh West Hope are
in the semi finals. But it's just interesting to me that,
you know, the same sport can be so different just
based on the weather. This time of year. We're not
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getting any snow down here in Georgia. We might have
a little bit of frost on the field, a little
bit of mud, a little bit of fog that'll roll
in from time to time, but no snow, no snow
tarps on our high school football fields. That is not
in the budget, all right. How about a couple of
states over Washington State. Someone sent this video to me
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a deer out there on the field, and we talked
about a bear on the practice field, I think the
first episode we did, and some deer on the drive home.
You gotta watch out for those. But this is a
big buck here from Chris Egan out of King five Television,
and that's in Seattle, Washington. Chris tweeted too many players
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on the field last night during the Styley football what
is styley styl of Coomb Sentinels and they were playing
Fife High School. Too many players on the field last
night during the style of Komb Fife game. And this
is a buck thing's got horns on it. Video is
a little too grainy. I can't see how many points
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it has, but it's big and it just hops that fence.
And here's the deal. There's a lot of a lot
of things going on. The ref is chasing the deer,
and there are fans at the fence and they don't,
you know, they hardly move. This must be a common occurrence.
They're seeing bucks out there on the field. But this
guy was agile. Here. It is a big deer, quick
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on the hoof. You got to watch out for these
deer during the game, though. And then they go this.
This buck just hops over, leaves the game, leaves the field,
and then there's a barbed wire fence behind the stadium.
The deer just kind of disappears. I hope it's all right,
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But I love to see some wild life at a
high school football game. There's nothing like it. Speaking of
wildlife at a high school football game, some of the
scariest things y'all encountered, and I've encountered at high school
football games. As we transition from Halloween time to a
much scarier time of year, elimination time in the high
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school football playoffs, that can be pretty frightening too, all right,
So Halloween, I asked y'all to share the scariest things
that ever happened to you at a high school football game.
And let me start off with my response. This is
kind of what fueled it. I was covering a high
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school football game in Perry, Georgia, almost ten years ago now,
but there was a demonstration that had a bird of
prey on the field before the game, a live hawk.
It's a big hawk, and you can see the picture
if you're watching on YouTube. This hawk landed right beside me.
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And you know, a lot of times for these games,
I'd go pick up a snack. I'd go get a
little something because you never really knew if you're going
to be able to find anything in the concession stand
that you could eat, or if it was up, if
it was running or what. So, you know, I'd pick
up something, leave a little bit early, and usually get
like some beef jerky and get a little sustenance. Well,
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i hadn't eaten my beef jerky yet, and I'm down
there on the field and this dude's got like the
big leather glove on, he's got the straps, he's got
the raw chicken whatever he uses to get this bird
of prey to not fly away. And this thing has
some big talents, man, and I get this picture about
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field level, turf level. I'm down here, right by the
blades of grass, and all of a sudden, this bird.
I don't know if birds can smell, but he knew
I had, he knew I was carrying. And I've been
run over by a referee at a football game. People
from the band have bumped into me with big instruments.
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People have thrown things at me from the stands. Giant
like I think there was a Teddy Bear one time
hit me in the head. But I've never been so
scared at a high school football game as I was
when this hawk eyes me down my beef jerky right
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there in my front pocket. I got a couple of kids.
Now they didn't know it at the time, but they
were in danger in that moment. I live to tell
the tale, thankfully. So that was my scary story. Some
other ones. Luke Haigdorn On consecutive nights in district play,
the press box had an electric fire at Lebanon. It
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was like the scene from Hoosiers. Afterwards, with everyone following
the buses back to the jod to finish the game.
On a Saturday night, you never know when when a
fire is going to break out. In the press box,
Shelley Creed responded, remember it well, longest high school game
in Missouri history, at least at that time. It's probably
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still true today. Yes, more electrical issues from Nick Sweat,
Johnson County taken on Hancock Central and Sparta, Georgia. The
field lights timer was set for ten thirty. The game
took forever and Joco scores with about a minute left
to go up fifty four to thirty six before the
extra point. The lights go out, Players and fans scatter,
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and the game is called with time on the clock.
There already are not many lights down there in Sparta.
See in the heat of the night, there's not a
lot of lights down there, and when they go out,
you don't want to be outside. It's not always safe
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for a lot of people. So yeah, that would terrify
me too. I'd be booking it. I'd be in my car,
be going back to make In or driving south to
Tampa or wherever they would have me, because I wouldn't
be caught out there in the dark of Sparta, Georgia.
Kyle Benjamin says, having a ball kicked at me on
kickoff return as a sophomore in a rivalry game. That's
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part of the job. Man. We were undefeated as freshmen.
We only played six games, but our very last game,
I was on the hands team for the on side kick.
We were, you know, just nursing this game, and coach
gets in my ear hold and says, if this ball
comes to you blanket ship and you run, I will
kill you. So I didn't touch it, didn't even try.
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I believed him's kickoff returns, especially in a rivalry game
or when something's at stake, if you're not meant to
be the return man, that can make your knees shake
a little bit. Here's from Mike Fowler. The year is
nineteen ninety seven. Great year. I'm a freshman and a
proud marching trojan. We are taking the stands after pregame
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and a senior football players shoulder checks me as we
walk by. I was certain he was going to kill me.
Turns out he didn't even realize I was there. Laser focus.
He didn't know you were there. No offense, Mike. He
didn't even know where the sound came from. In the band,
y'all might as well have invisibility cloaks on from Hogwarts.
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What else we go do? A couple more here? John
jp Mundy says took a direct snap to the solar
plexus while walking through w F football warm ups. What
is that, West Forsythe I think the solar plexus is
like your sternam? Is that what that is somewhere in
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your leg? Maybe it's a solar plexus? Sounds okay. The
solar plexus is a complex system of radiating nerves and ganglia.
That sounds bad. You definitely don't want to get a
football there. Yeah, it seems like there's a lot going
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on in the solar plexus. It really has nothing to
do with space, which surprises me. You gotta watch out
for those snaps. They'll come at you and take you down.
Last one from dog Sports had angry fans from Dodge
County throw bricks at us, but it was okay, like
the football team throwing wasn't really their strength. Dang, I
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guess you're the closest you are to what do they say,
the closer you are to danger, the further you are
from harm, especially when Dodge County's out there throwing bricks
at you. All Right, how about a story that seems
too good to be true? All right, how about a
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story a character, two different characters, one actor, and a
high school football crossroads that you got to know about.
You might not be aware of it, but I'm about
to educate you. Jesse Plemons is an actor that was
on Friday Night Lights TV series. He played Landry coach
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Kyle Chandler. Coach Eric Taylor called him Lance, So just
a classic mix up. Always funny when you call someone
the wrong name, either on purpose or on accident, but
you just kind of mix up the rest of the word.
After the first letter, Landry becomes Lance, and all of
a sudden, the nickname is born. Right while I was
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watching Varsity Blues rese and guess who shows up in
Varsity Blues but Landry. Landry's got a troubled past, even
in Varsity. Even in Friday Night Lights that second season,
affected by the writers strike, he had a love interest
with with a girl who was way out of his league, Tyra,
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and he kills a man. Landry kills a man in
the writers Strike season and they never talk about it again.
They just kind of own up to the fact that
that probably wasn't the best part of his story arc,
and he just gets away with it, gets nervous for
a little bit there. His dad's a cop, and they
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you know, they kind of hint at a cover up
and that kind of thing. But for something so significant
to happen in one of the strangest seasons ever of television,
not just in Friday Night Lights history, you kind of
just forget about it. You forget that he killed the
guy trying to protect Tyro, but he does. He gets
away with it and then kind of pursues this emo
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path in the show. But before he was in Friday
Night Lights, before Landry killed a guy, guess who he was?
He was Lance Harbor's little brother and Varsity Blues who
makes fun of Jonathan Moxin, Harbor's backup Harbor played by
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Paul Walker. Rest in Peace Moxin played by James Vanderbeek.
And I've attempted to get this man on the show, Moxhin,
but they got this thing called a sag strike going on,
and that means the actors don't talk. They're not even
allowed to go trick or treating apparently, so I can't
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get him on. Maybe one day, maybe as the show
continues to grow, we can talk about it and talk
to Jesse Plemons. But Jesse Plemons now in Children of
the Flower Moon. I think that's what it's called, Killing
of the Flower Moon. What's the movie called flower Moon?
Leonardo DiCaprio's in it, Killers of the Flower Moon, And
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Jesse Plemons is in this movie, and he's got a
pretty big role. It looks like he's a policeman. What's
his name, Tom White? So he investigates these killings down
at the at the reservation. But anyway, before he did
all that, and before he's in the spotlight for Killers
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of the Flower Moon, Plemons as Harbor's brother, what was
his actual name here, Tommy Harbor was sitting there roasting
Jonathan Moxon because of his football skills. Little did they
know moxin was going to be one of the coolest, calmest,
most collected quarterbacks they'd ever seen. But the fact that
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he grows up becomes Landry, becomes Lance when his brother's
name was Lance, and varsity Blues and he kills a guy.
It's just one of the more remarkable fictional high school
football storylines you're ever gonna hear about, More interesting than
Donny Chuggs, more interesting than reptile Henderson. Is it the
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same guys he look alike in the same universe or
is it just a coincidence. Who knows. He grew up
seeing a lot of things there in Varsity Blues, that
town was rotten to its core for football. That he
brings some of that with him to Dylan when he
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grew up and became Landry. It's possible. I'm not ruling
it out. Landry Clark is who he played and didn't
have a huge role on the football team. He was
just kind of around, did enough to catch Tyre's eye
for a part of a season, and then the rest
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is history. He became a murderer and we'll never forget
about that either. I haven't seen Killers of the Flower
Moon yet. I don't know if there's any kind of
football tie over there connection there. I'll have to investigate further,
and if there's an update, I will provide it. I
appreciate y'all listening to go Fight Win. Get some more
guests roll in here as we keep going through the playoffs.
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It's fall Break, though a little bit different episode here.
Fall Break. No guests, just me flapping my gums about
all these stories that y'all have shared with me and
I appreciate it. And when we don't have a guest,
we'll just talk about guys like Landry Clark, who killed
a guy, but before he killed a guy, he was
also just killing Jonathan Moxon because of his football skills.
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I love high school football movies high school football shows.
I mean I could do an entire episode on Booby Miles,
the real life guy and the movie characterization of them,
and who's to say I won't. Y'all watch out for
that hit like and subscribe. Thank you for checking out
the show and celebrating everything that there is to celebrate
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about high school football right here with me on Go
Fight when new episodes dropping each and every Thursday. Y'all
have a great week. Best of luck to all the
playoff teams out there as they get started, and send
me your best stories at Go Coffeetown on x and
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