December 21, 2023 • 37 mins
National Signing Day 2024: Some 5-Star NAME TALENT out there across the country
Coffeetown Christmas Special: Taking a look and a listen back at the best moments in Coffeetown football history.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey all, welcome into Go Fight Win, the show with
all the high school football stories you love. It's the
last show of the year and it just so happens
to be on early National Signing Day, So go ahead
and hit like and subscribe if you're watching live. Welcome.
I invite your comments. I want your input here on
National Signing Day. What's the best National Signing Day name
(00:22):
you saw today? Or ever, how about a National Signing
Day memory from when this thing still mattered, before the
transfer portal took all of the drama and intrigue out
of each player that signs with your school and wondering
if he'd even be there in a year. Let's not
dwell on that though. It's the holiday season. It's time
for Go Fight Win. And before we get to the
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all name team, here on National Signing Day twenty twenty four,
I wanted to relive some of the best moments from
Coffeetown high school football. Yeah, the Copperheads just one state.
You can pick up your champion chip gear the Double
A State champs in the go Cooffeetown dot com team store.
(01:05):
There's a link down below, and what you can get
is a custom Double A State champion, T shirt, mug, hoodie.
Let me show you what we're working with here. It's
pretty special stuff. It's simple, but it gets the job done.
Coffeetown Football Double A State Champs as they beat Talon
(01:30):
Junction And if you miss that, it is in last
week's episode. But check that out. Coffeetown Football twenty twenty
three Double A State Champs, a little copperhead with the
crown on. You can get a hoodie, crew neck, coffee mug,
t shirt. But here's what makes this great. Whether it's
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the crew neck or your hoodie or coffee mug, whatever
you get, it's not just the Double A State Champs
on the front. Check out the back. If I don't
like your fire, your woods wet right there on the
back of every single item there to celebrate the Coffeetown
Double A State championship. Y'all go get you one, all right.
(02:13):
May not get there in time for Christmas, but it's
the thought that counts, and double A State championship always
counts at Coffeetown, HASCU. So this show doesn't exist if
Coffeetown never exists. And Coffeetown is a little project that's
near and dear to my heart. It's my love letter
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to high school football, specifically through the eyes and ears
and voice of the high school football radio announcer. And
I started this a few years ago. I didn't have
my contract renewed when I was working for the local
sports department in the NBC affiliate in Atlanta, and I
always loved the high school football radio calls. Always admired
(02:57):
the humor of a guy named lou UIs Grizzard who
was a journalist a columnist, but also made funny stuff
and almost had a stand up routine. And I always
wondered what would I do if I happened to branch
out and do something like that have a little bit
of fun myself. And I always thought that the high
school football radio announcer would be a funny way to go.
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So I started with a fictional team named Coffee Town.
And I came up with that name because I just
so happened to have a jittery Joe's coffee cup in
the cup holder was not related to Coffee County High
School in Georgia, where I reside. It was just happenstance.
Coffeetown High School took on a name, took on a
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life of its own, and Donny Chugs Ronnie Chugs took
off running and they never looked back. So what I'm
gonna do on this week's episode here is kind of
do a look back at where Coffee Town's come from,
how it started, the twists and turns it took along
the way, and we'll go with some humble beginning in
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twenty nineteen is when Coffeetown began. And I just did
a few little sketches, a few little skits of this
school and its radio calls and the games and teams
that was playing against. But this video right here is
the one that really put Coffeetown on the map. I
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believe Coffeetown taking on Brierton in a rivalry game and
the officials calls controversially go against the Copperheads.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
State semifinals Brighton and Coffee Town. Brton whipped just twenty
nine to three in the regular season. Man my Naser
sweating Son Bartres sends it away. All right, we're down
eight to nothing fourth and go from one Donny Chugs
and a wildcat. He'll tell us back to Jay C.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Bengo.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Bengo will throw the Nacho Davis for a Coffee Town touchdown.
Whoa jumbo nacho bengo man? If that don't lighttrify your
woods wit. Time for the Big Tire halftime show. Our
academic athlete, left guard Wayne cars go wayn and so
he killed a big nine pointer. Over the weekend, Bartres
kicked his couple of field goals. We're up fourteen to eight,
less than a minute left, Bright and fourth and go
from the nine. Bryce Branch would take off, not Joe
(05:10):
Davis licks him at the one.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
His name was down.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
They say score, man alive, that's a bull crap. Excuse
my language, man alive. I actually hold out with the knee.
The freshman tan tabous Max. We will throw down the
Donney chugs on the hooking ladder. Donny back to Ronnie chugs.
Ronnie runs down to fifteen. Ronnie back to Donny. Donny
stretches across the goal line. The ball came out, but
the ground caused a fumble.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
The ref say fumbled it. They robbed us brighton wins.
So as you heard there some humble beginnings. I'm just
doing these videos in the front seat of my car.
I was using my Apple standard issue headphones with the
microphone inside of it, and it did create that scratchy
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sound of a high school football over modulated radio call.
Now that was twenty nineteen. Between that season of football
and the next one. I made it on the Marty
and McGee Show, Paul Feinbaum Show. There was some traction.
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People started to understand what my vision was for this
and the joke and the respect that I had for
high school football. It wasn't making fun of the voices
of these teams. It was a badge of honor. It
was respect. It was a tribute to the work that
they do and how much I love high school football.
And ultimately I found out that this wasn't just a
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Southern thing. This was everywhere in the country. People grew
up listening to these teams and understood and appreciated what
was going on. But when COVID happened, I wondered, I
wondered if I should do it, if I should make
these videos again, because they were popular, and I made
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a few of them, made a handful of them, and
certainly didn't intend for it to be as popular as
it was. It was just a little passion project that
I wanted to put out there into the universe. Well,
I started to see that real life high school football
teams were not getting to play their seasons in twenty twenty,
and I wondered. I deliberated, should I make these videos?
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And I hesitated, and then one day I just realized,
you know, if we can't have real football, if we
can't have real radio talent out there, if we can't
have real players doing their thing on Friday nights, why
not enjoy what high school football is, what it's always been,
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and what it will continue to be. So in twenty twenty,
we learned about a player named Reptile Henderson. But before
we knew who Reptile was, the scrappy freshman backup quarterback.
This was Ashley Holt's team. And when Ashley Holt and
Coffee Town and the Copperheads played on the road at
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root Creek, well, something happened that even I couldn't have predicted.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
We got ants, got ants all over our sideline, root
Creek's DB's knocked over our cooler and pregame warm ups,
got blue drink all over our gear, and didn't treat
for fire ant bids neither. Got ants everywhere looks like
an ant form. So now we got to share the
home sideline with Roote Creek. I ain't ever seen nothing
like it. They had a hornet's nest in the booth
busted open. One of the assistant coaches, Big Old Mike,
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up there poking around at it. Mike is dumber than
a paper umbrella. So now I'm calling the game out here.
My trees stand behind the end zone. Okay, let me
paint the picture for you. We are tied in the standings,
so we have to win one of the next two
ball games for the season finale against Cobra to count
as the state championship. That is the COVID rules, straight
(08:55):
from the governor. Okay, Bartres sends it away. Mouse pat
Palmer blows up Root Creek's return. Man on the seven.
Big old mouse pad number ninety two made him taste
his own teeth. Mousepad was running late for two days
over the summer. Showed up to practice with no mask on.
He was helping out vacation Bible scool at Coffee Town Methodists.
He's fixing to get send home, so he run up
to the school. The first thing he found was a
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mouse pad in a computer laughs, trapped it up on
his face, made it at the practice and they've been
calling a mouse pad ever since. Has special teams play?
Brought to you by Carol and Daryl's nail salon and body.
She'll paint your nail beds. He'll coach your truck beds.
Carol and Daryl, we are a special team. Okay, Root
Creek up on us eighteen fourteen, nine seconds left in
the ball game. We are on there twenty two. Ashley
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Holt drops back. He's got t bone stone breaking open.
And there is an animal on the field, a boar,
a wild boar has just taken Ashley holding out at
the knees. He is holding his leg and the time
is gonna run out. I've seen that thing under the
bleasers before the game, rooting through the trash. I guess
someone turn it loose. And Ashley Holt's mama just puked.
She is madder than a cat in the bathtub. He
(10:00):
got him right below his knee, throw his calf cut
right through his grave digger tattoo. And that's how we're
going to lose the ball game. Roote Creek took our sidelines,
they took my chair, they took our quarterback, and they
took this ball game. But by God, they will not
take this season. Root Creek wins eighteen to fourteen.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Wow, that right there was the end of Ashley Holt's career,
right through his grave digger tattoo. And that clip right
there is the one that told me that I made
the right decision. Should I have done it during COVID
when other schools weren't playing real ball?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Because that made people laugh and it made people smile
when not a lot of people were laughing and smiling,
and got a lot of messages about it. And I'm
thankful and grateful for everybody that does that, that watches
these that watches and listens to go fight, win, and
keeps up with the world of Coffee Town. It's taken
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on a life of its own. I didn't intend for
it to. Just wanted to make a little something fun
out there when I wasn't having very much fun in
my own professional life. And it has really done a
number on me in a good way. It's helped set
up some phenomenal professional and personal relationships with people that
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I otherwise wouldn't have met or associated with, or had
the opportunity to meet, and so many of you as well.
It's opened up lines of communication for us to celebrate
and enjoy our own high school football stories. So that
was twenty twenty. Reptile Henderson comes on the scene. Okay,
and Coffeetown avenges the loss of Ashley Holtz gravedigger tattoo.
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They win state in an abbreviated state championship format. So
now all of a sudden, you've got an asterisk. You know,
you got an asterisk on your team name? Did Coffeetown
really win a legit state championship? Season was shortened, so
they get the twenty twenty one season the opportunity to
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go out and defend their state title. Now, ultimately, well
Coffeetown didn't do that, but we got to meet someone
that is important to Nacho Davis. Nacho Davis, the Coffeetown
linebacker and in the Bacon Fork rivalry game for the
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Silver Skillet. More games need amazing trophies like that, right,
It's why I created the Silver Skillet and the Bacon
Fork story. Coffee Town taken on Bacon Fork. For the
Silver Skillet, we get to meet don Tanya Davis, Nacho
Davis's sister. In the twenty twenty one season. Now, the
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backdrop of the twenty twenty one years when we learned
about Bishop Sycamore and Sycamore was a school that was
created under false pretenses, and I had to keep making
Coffeetown videos in the twenty twenty one season just to
let everybody know not every fake high school was created equally.
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We didn't create Coffeetown with fear and shady tax forms.
We created it with love in our hearts. And there's
a lot of love out there for Nacho and don
Toni Davis. At the time, my Atlanta Braves were pushing
for a World Series title, which explains my attire enjoy.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Hey Bacon Fork had Coffertown in the Breakfast Bow first
time we played in for the Silver Skillet in five
years Firebirds living up to their nickname as back and
Forth Bacon Fork after dropping back down to double A
from triple A for the.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Fifth time in fifteen seasons. Baking Fork changes classes more
often in a school. Bale fourth down now after.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
The reptile Henderson caper on the RP one team out
there and it's a fake. Big Pete McCallister, the upback,
stood up and zipped it over the line. Toddler Moss
Park berth Down, Big old Peepe was born with paper
thin eyelids. He's like Steven Tyler's on the Armageddon soundtrack.
Even when he closed his eyes.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
He ain't gonna miss a thing.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
We just converted a trick play, which means the franken
steinmar will donate a costume of its choosing to one
lucky coffee Town peewee player. Coffeetown's trick is our tree
at the franken Steinmarer. Our academic athlete this week is
Coffeetown cheerleader Dantania Davis, the twin sister of Coffeetown linebacker
Nio Davis.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Says here, Dantania is.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
A mathematical luck to be the valedictorian and graduation. She
won homecoming queen last week and is also the youngest
worship leader in the one hundred and twenty five year
history of Coffeetown Baptist Church. John Tania was voted Miss
Coffeetown Senior Superative by her peers and also mentors troubled
youth at Coffeetown Elementary and Middle When she ain't studying,
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praising cheer, and the leading Dantania rescue straight dogs and
rehabilitates them before helping him find a good home, which
she also probably helped build through the Coffee Town Caris nonprofit,
the fundraiser she launched as a fifth grader. D'antania, it's
no surprise you got two first names, Darling, because you
got enough hard for two people. Tell me what's it
like to be the sister of the best linebacker in
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Coffee Town history. Okay, fourth and go bacon for four
seconds left in the ball game. We are up thirteen
to ten and they're going for the wind. Bacon fourth
quarterback Chunk Chamberlain gonna take the snap. He's got nobody open.
Chunk scrambles, not your Davis pushed them out at the
two and d'antania Davis playing him on the sidelines. Man loud,
That makes my lips numb. Nicho shoved him, Chunk stepped out,
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and don Tania was waiting there like an oak tree
wrapped in barbed wire. Night Shoe and Dantonia are getting
carried off, holding that skillet high in the October air.
Coffee Town is one went away from the playoffs. Now
get to fourk off our field.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well, the Braves did go on to win the World Series,
and I kind of was hoping to egg them on there.
I was hoping to push them over the edge with
that vision of Nacho and Don Tanya getting carried off
the field with the trophy high in the air, and
both teams got it done. Got it done that fall, well,
(16:22):
at least in that game, in the Braves winning the
World Series a really fun fall sports wise. Now, the
way that season ended was a little bit of a cliffhanger.
Coffee Town playing at Warburg, the stadium falls, it collapses.
Because I was going to stop doing the videos. I
was going to hang it up and quit doing it
because of where I was in my career at the time,
(16:45):
the job I had and didn't really allow me much
time to keep making these videos. It didn't really make
much sense. So that's kind of how I wrote the story.
I wrote it so that it was ambiguous. You didn't
know if Coffeetown won the game to make it to
the playoffs, and Max the ax Bell, the radio announcer
falls down in a stadium collapse, and Coffeetown didn't exist,
(17:08):
didn't make any videos the following fall. Now, I had
an opening in my career situation and had the opportunity
to once again not only make these videos, but launch
Coffeetown as a bigger brand, as something that wasn't just
me making sketches for social media and getting likes and
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retweets and then everyone forgetting about it the next day.
I wanted to create a show and create an account,
a social media account, a community that was bigger than
just that character, and bigger than just the Coffeetown radio calls.
So that's why I created Go Fight, Win show that
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I did every week this fall, dropped every Thursday, and
this one is the last one of the twenty twenty
three year season as high school football comes to a
close and things slowed down. I'll still have some guests,
had some great guests on this year. Had Marty Smith
and our guest finale and pretty fitting ending there and
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given that his show partner Ryan McGee was the first
guest of the year. Also had Booger McFarlane, Matthew Stinchcombe,
had David Pollock on, had some really great guests cons
from Barstool. The list goes on and on. You can
check it out. It's on Apple, It's on Spotify. Paul
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Finebaum was on there. It was fun it was a
lot of fun to hear about these guys high school
football glory days. And those interviews will continue this winter,
and there will be some programming changes that we'll figure
out down the line, probably just go one episode every
other week instead of every week as some of these
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high school football stories slow down. But it has still
been a pretty successful, pretty fun first fall to do
this show, and I hope it has continued success, continued growth.
And that's why I need y'all to hit like and
subscribe and tell people about it so we can keep
doing cool stuff and go back to the drawing board
(19:22):
a little bit and see how this thing can be
even better now. Part of the plan, part of the package,
part of the vision for doing a show like Go Fight, Win,
is having a few different segments. The first segment of
each show kind of like the late night talk show model.
You have a monologue, You've got some stories from around
the country that you know, you kind of have some
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jokes that you riff off of. A B block that
is a little bit shorter, has some humorous content, and
that's where I would put Coffee Town sketches when I
made them. And then the final block of the show
when we had guests, you'd have a nice subst stanchil
chunk to speak with a guest about his or her
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high school football experience. So Coffeetown did exist. I did
have Coffeetown sketches and games sprinkled throughout the Go Fight
Win season, and it all started off with a nice
little return Coffeetown playing on the road, and it ended
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up being the Copperhead's only loss of the season. Here
is the season opener for Coffeetown in twenty twenty three,
the start of another state championship season.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
For Town.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
The Copper Central gonna kick his saying, oh, put on
your safety goggles because it snots fixing a fly. Copper
Central is a six and a half point favorite. According
to the Copperhead Courrier. I was supposed to put money
on the ball games, but Mama bet the farmers she
needs a new pace maker.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Let's get it done, boys.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Reptile Henderson under center hands it off to krock Pot
Peters behind the right guard.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Gain on one. That run brought to you by the
gut guys gastroenterology.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
The only place you should have to experience explosive runs
is at coffee Town football games. So call the gut
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guard this time pick up two, Come on, crock pop,
They're down now, nose of the ball on our own
six or eight, and.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Comper Central eats up.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Reptile puts them in the dirt before he gets even
hand a ball off man alive. We go to halftime
trailing save nothing and playing scared. Time Now for our
academic athlete, brought to you by Big Tire. Quarterback Reptile
Henderson has a four point zero working on his technical
degree in motorsports, same as is forty time.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
He's a spark plug of our offense.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Reptile put in new intakes and drive shafts and all
the team buses, and now they're topping out near triple
digits on a straight shot. The skill District's making the
team where helmets and shoulder pads two and away from
ball games. Even the bus driver and all the coaches
got to wear protective head gear. Reptile, how do we
nominate you in for a Nobel prize?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Son?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Okay, fourth and one from our own fifteen Copper Central
up ten nothing, recogn this will be the last play
at the ball game, Reptile hands it off to Crockpot.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
There's a whole twenty thirty run Krockpott, and by god,
he's gonna score.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Might take him a few hours, but by the end
of the night, you know, Crockpot is gonna cook. Copper
has falled ten six to start the season. Good teams win,
but great teams cover. It's still early, y'all. Coffee Town
ain't dead yet, and Mama ain't either.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So that's how the twenty twenty three seasons started. Copper
Central and Uh, there have been some good ad reads
in Coffee Town games in years past. That's the element
of the of the scripts and of the shows that
are really the most fun for me to do. And
the Gut Guy's gas Stroenterology has to be, if not
(22:58):
the favorite one of my fas favorite ad reads that
I've ever had, Gut Guys gastro Enterology.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
The other one in there in the uh Root Creek game,
the Nail Salon and Body. He'll paint your nail bed,
He'll paint your she'll paint your nail beds. He'll coach
your truck beds.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
You know there are stores out there that that do that.
You drive around the South long enough, around these back
roads all over the country, you see some interesting combo shops.
You know, you got some cold cuts and laundromats, you
got uh uh, you got long care, and you got
baby food. I mean, there's all kinds of things where
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people team up and put their skills together and form
a business. And that's what makes America America. It's capitalism
and you never know how things might shape up out
there in the open market. But yet again, Coffeetown wins state.
Get you some state championship gear son a double a
state championship gear with the if that don't light you
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fire your woods wit on the back of the T
shirt or on the other side of the coffee mug.
It's all there for you at the gocoffeetown dot com
team store. It's been a fun time making these Coffeetown videos.
I don't know how often I'll keep making them. It
is pretty time consuming, and I do you know, I
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don't want to limit it. I don't want to limit
it to just sketches on the internet. You know, who's
to say it couldn't be a book one day or
some sort of streaming series if I had the right
package around it, you never know. That's what people envision
it as and say they'd love to see it on
Netflix and see it become a streaming series one day.
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It's pretty difficult to make those things happen. But it
doesn't mean that we don't dream about it, right, doesn't
mean that we don't think about the ways that it
can happen. So until then, this has been a Coffeetown
ball season and it worked out pretty well. All right,
let's switch gears here. Let's take a look National Signing
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Day twenty twenty four. Now here on Go Fight Win.
It is a high school football show. It's the show
with all the high school football stories you love. Okay,
it's a story driven show. This isn't about the five
star guy out there in Texas. It's not about that.
It's about stories. It's about storytelling, and any guest that
(25:30):
comes on here you'll learn that. You'll see that. If
this is your first time listening to the show or
watching it, go back through and listen to the guests
and listen to the stories that y'all sent in all
fall to kick off this show. There are some amazing
stories out there that seem like they are out of
the Coffeetown universe, but they're real, their real life. And
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you know, I have names like Nacho Davis, Reptyle Henderson,
Donnie and Ronnie Chuggs, things that are certainly made up.
But then you have names like this. You have names
like this on signing Day twenty twenty four that y'all
tagged me in. I didn't even have to ask for
some of these names. Y'all just saw them and said, hey,
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Wes needs to see this, Hey West needs to see Nitro,
Hey Wes needs to see Turbo, West needs to see
King Large. All right, so let's go through some of
these names, and I'll sign my own star ranking to
the names out here, and let y'all know what I
think about where they stack up. Let's start off with Montana,
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the Great State of Montana. Tommy Running Rabbit. Now, this
is a Native American name, so it's different than a
lot of the nicknames on this list, not the same
kind of thing. You know, it's a family name, it's
a it's a traditional name with great cultural heritage and significance,
(26:57):
but it doesn't mean it is an awesome So here
is Tommy Running Rabbit. If you're watching on YouTube and
not on the podcast, you can see Tommy Running Rabbit.
He is a six one, one hundred and ninety pound athlete.
He lists himself as a linebacker and running back, but
(27:17):
I don't know how much linebacker you'll play it. Six
flat one ninety uh. He is not ranked on any
of the recruiting services that I could find. I use
twenty four to seven sports to see how these guys
stack up their rankings. And you see that catch there,
then that's that's a heck of a grab. Running Rabbit
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now will channel his prey mentality as a running rabbit,
and he'll also attack as the predator as part of
the Montana Grizzlies. Tommy Running Rabbit out of Browning High
School in Browning, Montana, staying in state. He'll go play
for Montana. And this is gonna be a fun career
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to keep tabs on here. Tommy Running Rabbit, Keep running, Tommy,
never stop? All right, That to me is a five
star name. Not every name on this list will earn
a five star. Don't think I'm just throwing out five
stars here. This is real talent evaluation, real name evaluation here.
(28:25):
So just because you're on the list doesn't mean you're
a five star. Let's go to Zaravian Gravy Johnson, Cincinnati commit. Now,
Gravy Johnson is this kind of a play on Sauce
Gardner sauce great name, and you know up North, gravy
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is what you call sauce zarav and Johnson here goes
by gravy and it's really a good culturally flexible nickname.
Zaravian Gravy Johnson. Down South, Gravy's what you put on
your biscuits. Of North, Gravy's what you put on your pasta.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
So, Gravy Johnson is a three star according to twenty
four to seven Sports, six to two, one hundred and
seventy pounds and he will play cornerback. He's the eighteenth
best player out of the state of South Carolina and
the one hundred and forty fifth best. They rate him
here as a safety. But congrats to Gravy Johnson, who
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is gonna cover everything. He's gonna cover the field like
you cover your biscuits. Zaravian Gravy Johnson out of Clinton,
South Carolina, Clinton High School, the number seventeen player out
of the state. Wow, he's a three star player. I'm
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gonna give him a five star our nickname though, five
stars for Zaravian Gravy Johnson. All right, what do we
have next. We've got King Large, King Large. Look at
this graphic here, King Large looks like he means business.
All right, King is out of Where is King Large from?
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He is from Bellflower, California, Saint John Bosco, a proud program,
and he is the one hundred and second best California prospect,
the one hundred and third best offensive tackle in the
country six four to two hundred and ninety five. He's
actually not the biggest guy on this list of names
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here that I'm rolling out, and with a name like
King Large, I expect you to be the biggest guy
on the list. So for that reason, King Large, the
three star player, I'm gonna give you a four star name. Now,
it's nothing personal. You just you got to live up
to the nickname a little better than that. King going
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to smu hit the weight room there with the Pony Express,
and I'll see how you're doing. In a couple of years.
We'll reevaluate, maybe you pick up that fifth star son. Alright,
who's next? Another big boy? Jimithy Lewis. Jimithy. Now that's
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not a crazy name. It's not Nitro Tuggle, it's not
Turbo Richard. But Jimothy is a big boy going to
Mississippi State. Jimothy attends IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, thirty
fifth overall player in the Sunshine State and the twenty
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eighth best offensive tackle six ' six, two hundred and
seventy five pounds. Now that's a big boy. Like I said,
it's not the craziest nickname. But as my buddy on Twitter,
John tweets Sports pointed out to me, if you say
Jimothy with a Spanish inflection, that jay becomes an h
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and his name becomes Himothy. So, coach Jeff Levy, you
got you a big dog. You got Himothy. It's still
not the craziest name, though, So I'm sticking with four stars.
Sticking with four stars for Timothy Lewis. Now this is
where this list gets real. Nitro Tuggle and Turbo Richard.
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We'll give you a package deal for these guys here.
First up, Nitro Tuggle, special special name. Georgia signs him
and it was kind of a tough commitment. It wasn't
always an assumption that Nitro might stick with the Dogs.
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Georgia had to kind of fend off some other suitors there.
But Georgia picks up Nitro Tuggle, the number two ranked
prospect out of Indiana Napanee, Indiana Northwood High School. A
six to one, one ninety pound receiver. He's really explosive,
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lives up to his name. Go watch his tape. A
four star recruit according to twenty four to seven Sports,
but easily a five star name. And he's not related
to Jesse Tuggle that I'm aware of. But the Dogs
got them some dynamite between the hedges, some tnt in
the classic city at White ol Now. Next up is
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Turbo Richard, going from Nitro to Turbo. Turbo, also out
of the state of South Carolina. Just like our earlier player, Gravy.
Turbo is from rock Kill, South Carolina, Northwestern High School
is going to Boston College. The twentieth overall prospect from
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South Carolina, the one hundred and six best running back
in the country. A five ten, two hundred and seven
pound running back. Kind of a block, just a block
of a guy. He can scoot. A three star running back,
but turbo at the running back position. Fast fella, I'm
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giving you a five star name. Son. Once he hits
turbo mode, it is over turbo going from rock Hill
to Chestnut Hill. Turbo Richard is on the move. Good
luck slowing him down the last list and listen, some
great names here. And I thought that Nitro Tuggle was
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going to be the name to beat, but we have
a late challenger that was not on my radar before today.
He is now Willie Nelson going to Oklahoma State. That's right, Mamas,
don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. But
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guess what, Mama, Willie Nelson's gonna be a cowboy. He's
not gonna wonder should I have been a cowboy? Should
I have learned a rope and ride?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
He is just like Willie out of Texas. But he's
going to Oklahoma State, the one hundred and eightieth overall
prospect out of the lone Star State, the one hundred
and thirty fourth best safety in the country, five nine,
one seventy. Gonna need to stack up a little bit,
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Gonna need to put some muscle on there. Willie, the
other Willie Nelson is five to six, one hundred and
fifty eight pounds according to Google. Uh three star. But
is there any doubt, Willie Nelson, I'm going to Stillwater.
That's a five star name. Hey, I hope y'all have
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a great holiday. Thank you for watching the show. Thank
you for hitting, like hitting, subscribe for listening. Wherever you
do this, it is appreciated. I love doing it. It
is fun to do. We'll see what it looks like
in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty four. But here,
in the year twenty twenty three, almost twenty episodes under
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the old Belt. Here Coffeetown wins State, some championship, elite
caliber guests and some phenomenal stories that you sent in
from around the country and from your own high school
football playing days, and some amazing mascot profiles as well.
We had Martians, we had Gobblers. We had it all, baby,
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and this train will continue to roll in twenty twenty
four after a little bit of r and all for
the holidays. Congrats to all the other state champs out there,
and all the other non state champs. If you're playing
high school football, you're okay with go fight, win. You're
okay with this crew. See you'll have a great holiday,
Happy new Year, see you back here in January. Peace,
Hey all, welcome into Go Fight Win, the show with
all the high school football stories you love. It's the
last show of the year and it just so happens
to be on early National Signing Day, So go ahead
and hit like and subscribe if you're watching live. Welcome.
I invite your comments. I want your input here on
National Signing Day. What's the best National Signing Day name
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you saw today? Or ever, how about a National Signing
Day memory from when this thing still mattered, before the
transfer portal took all of the drama and intrigue out
of each player that signs with your school and wondering
if he'd even be there in a year. Let's not
dwell on that though. It's the holiday season. It's time
for Go Fight Win. And before we get to the
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all name team, here on National Signing Day twenty twenty four,
I wanted to relive some of the best moments from
Coffeetown high school football. Yeah, the Copperheads just one state.
You can pick up your champion chip gear the Double
A State champs in the go Cooffeetown dot com team store.
(01:05):
There's a link down below, and what you can get
is a custom Double A State champion, T shirt, mug, hoodie.
Let me show you what we're working with here. It's
pretty special stuff. It's simple, but it gets the job done.
Coffeetown Football Double A State Champs as they beat Talon
(01:30):
Junction And if you miss that, it is in last
week's episode. But check that out. Coffeetown Football twenty twenty
three Double A State Champs, a little copperhead with the
crown on. You can get a hoodie, crew neck, coffee mug,
t shirt. But here's what makes this great. Whether it's
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the crew neck or your hoodie or coffee mug, whatever
you get, it's not just the Double A State Champs
on the front. Check out the back. If I don't
like your fire, your woods wet right there on the
back of every single item there to celebrate the Coffeetown
Double A State championship. Y'all go get you one, all right.
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May not get there in time for Christmas, but it's
the thought that counts, and double A State championship always
counts at Coffeetown, HASCU. So this show doesn't exist if
Coffeetown never exists. And Coffeetown is a little project that's
near and dear to my heart. It's my love letter
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to high school football, specifically through the eyes and ears
and voice of the high school football radio announcer. And
I started this a few years ago. I didn't have
my contract renewed when I was working for the local
sports department in the NBC affiliate in Atlanta, and I
always loved the high school football radio calls. Always admired
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the humor of a guy named lou UIs Grizzard who
was a journalist a columnist, but also made funny stuff
and almost had a stand up routine. And I always
wondered what would I do if I happened to branch
out and do something like that have a little bit
of fun myself. And I always thought that the high
school football radio announcer would be a funny way to go.
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So I started with a fictional team named Coffee Town.
And I came up with that name because I just
so happened to have a jittery Joe's coffee cup in
the cup holder was not related to Coffee County High
School in Georgia, where I reside. It was just happenstance.
Coffeetown High School took on a name, took on a
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life of its own, and Donny Chugs Ronnie Chugs took
off running and they never looked back. So what I'm
gonna do on this week's episode here is kind of
do a look back at where Coffee Town's come from,
how it started, the twists and turns it took along
the way, and we'll go with some humble beginning in
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twenty nineteen is when Coffeetown began. And I just did
a few little sketches, a few little skits of this
school and its radio calls and the games and teams
that was playing against. But this video right here is
the one that really put Coffeetown on the map. I
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believe Coffeetown taking on Brierton in a rivalry game and
the officials calls controversially go against the Copperheads.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
State semifinals Brighton and Coffee Town. Brton whipped just twenty
nine to three in the regular season. Man my Naser
sweating Son Bartres sends it away. All right, we're down
eight to nothing fourth and go from one Donny Chugs
and a wildcat. He'll tell us back to Jay C.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Bengo.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Bengo will throw the Nacho Davis for a Coffee Town touchdown.
Whoa jumbo nacho bengo man? If that don't lighttrify your
woods wit. Time for the Big Tire halftime show. Our
academic athlete, left guard Wayne cars go wayn and so
he killed a big nine pointer. Over the weekend, Bartres
kicked his couple of field goals. We're up fourteen to eight,
less than a minute left, Bright and fourth and go
from the nine. Bryce Branch would take off, not Joe
(05:10):
Davis licks him at the one.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
His name was down.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
They say score, man alive, that's a bull crap. Excuse
my language, man alive. I actually hold out with the knee.
The freshman tan tabous Max. We will throw down the
Donney chugs on the hooking ladder. Donny back to Ronnie chugs.
Ronnie runs down to fifteen. Ronnie back to Donny. Donny
stretches across the goal line. The ball came out, but
the ground caused a fumble.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
The ref say fumbled it. They robbed us brighton wins.
So as you heard there some humble beginnings. I'm just
doing these videos in the front seat of my car.
I was using my Apple standard issue headphones with the
microphone inside of it, and it did create that scratchy
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sound of a high school football over modulated radio call.
Now that was twenty nineteen. Between that season of football
and the next one. I made it on the Marty
and McGee Show, Paul Feinbaum Show. There was some traction.
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People started to understand what my vision was for this
and the joke and the respect that I had for
high school football. It wasn't making fun of the voices
of these teams. It was a badge of honor. It
was respect. It was a tribute to the work that
they do and how much I love high school football.
And ultimately I found out that this wasn't just a
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Southern thing. This was everywhere in the country. People grew
up listening to these teams and understood and appreciated what
was going on. But when COVID happened, I wondered, I
wondered if I should do it, if I should make
these videos again, because they were popular, and I made
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a few of them, made a handful of them, and
certainly didn't intend for it to be as popular as
it was. It was just a little passion project that
I wanted to put out there into the universe. Well,
I started to see that real life high school football
teams were not getting to play their seasons in twenty twenty,
and I wondered. I deliberated, should I make these videos?
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And I hesitated, and then one day I just realized,
you know, if we can't have real football, if we
can't have real radio talent out there, if we can't
have real players doing their thing on Friday nights, why
not enjoy what high school football is, what it's always been,
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and what it will continue to be. So in twenty twenty,
we learned about a player named Reptile Henderson. But before
we knew who Reptile was, the scrappy freshman backup quarterback.
This was Ashley Holt's team. And when Ashley Holt and
Coffee Town and the Copperheads played on the road at
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root Creek, well, something happened that even I couldn't have predicted.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
We got ants, got ants all over our sideline, root
Creek's DB's knocked over our cooler and pregame warm ups,
got blue drink all over our gear, and didn't treat
for fire ant bids neither. Got ants everywhere looks like
an ant form. So now we got to share the
home sideline with Roote Creek. I ain't ever seen nothing
like it. They had a hornet's nest in the booth
busted open. One of the assistant coaches, Big Old Mike,
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up there poking around at it. Mike is dumber than
a paper umbrella. So now I'm calling the game out here.
My trees stand behind the end zone. Okay, let me
paint the picture for you. We are tied in the standings,
so we have to win one of the next two
ball games for the season finale against Cobra to count
as the state championship. That is the COVID rules, straight
(08:55):
from the governor. Okay, Bartres sends it away. Mouse pat
Palmer blows up Root Creek's return. Man on the seven.
Big old mouse pad number ninety two made him taste
his own teeth. Mousepad was running late for two days
over the summer. Showed up to practice with no mask on.
He was helping out vacation Bible scool at Coffee Town Methodists.
He's fixing to get send home, so he run up
to the school. The first thing he found was a
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mouse pad in a computer laughs, trapped it up on
his face, made it at the practice and they've been
calling a mouse pad ever since. Has special teams play?
Brought to you by Carol and Daryl's nail salon and body.
She'll paint your nail beds. He'll coach your truck beds.
Carol and Daryl, we are a special team. Okay, Root
Creek up on us eighteen fourteen, nine seconds left in
the ball game. We are on there twenty two. Ashley
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Holt drops back. He's got t bone stone breaking open.
And there is an animal on the field, a boar,
a wild boar has just taken Ashley holding out at
the knees. He is holding his leg and the time
is gonna run out. I've seen that thing under the
bleasers before the game, rooting through the trash. I guess
someone turn it loose. And Ashley Holt's mama just puked.
She is madder than a cat in the bathtub. He
(10:00):
got him right below his knee, throw his calf cut
right through his grave digger tattoo. And that's how we're
going to lose the ball game. Roote Creek took our sidelines,
they took my chair, they took our quarterback, and they
took this ball game. But by God, they will not
take this season. Root Creek wins eighteen to fourteen.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Wow, that right there was the end of Ashley Holt's career,
right through his grave digger tattoo. And that clip right
there is the one that told me that I made
the right decision. Should I have done it during COVID
when other schools weren't playing real ball?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Because that made people laugh and it made people smile
when not a lot of people were laughing and smiling,
and got a lot of messages about it. And I'm
thankful and grateful for everybody that does that, that watches
these that watches and listens to go fight, win, and
keeps up with the world of Coffee Town. It's taken
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on a life of its own. I didn't intend for
it to. Just wanted to make a little something fun
out there when I wasn't having very much fun in
my own professional life. And it has really done a
number on me in a good way. It's helped set
up some phenomenal professional and personal relationships with people that
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I otherwise wouldn't have met or associated with, or had
the opportunity to meet, and so many of you as well.
It's opened up lines of communication for us to celebrate
and enjoy our own high school football stories. So that
was twenty twenty. Reptile Henderson comes on the scene. Okay,
and Coffeetown avenges the loss of Ashley Holtz gravedigger tattoo.
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They win state in an abbreviated state championship format. So
now all of a sudden, you've got an asterisk. You know,
you got an asterisk on your team name? Did Coffeetown
really win a legit state championship? Season was shortened, so
they get the twenty twenty one season the opportunity to
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go out and defend their state title. Now, ultimately, well
Coffeetown didn't do that, but we got to meet someone
that is important to Nacho Davis. Nacho Davis, the Coffeetown
linebacker and in the Bacon Fork rivalry game for the
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Silver Skillet. More games need amazing trophies like that, right,
It's why I created the Silver Skillet and the Bacon
Fork story. Coffee Town taken on Bacon Fork. For the
Silver Skillet, we get to meet don Tanya Davis, Nacho
Davis's sister. In the twenty twenty one season. Now, the
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backdrop of the twenty twenty one years when we learned
about Bishop Sycamore and Sycamore was a school that was
created under false pretenses, and I had to keep making
Coffeetown videos in the twenty twenty one season just to
let everybody know not every fake high school was created equally.
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We didn't create Coffeetown with fear and shady tax forms.
We created it with love in our hearts. And there's
a lot of love out there for Nacho and don
Toni Davis. At the time, my Atlanta Braves were pushing
for a World Series title, which explains my attire enjoy.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Hey Bacon Fork had Coffertown in the Breakfast Bow first
time we played in for the Silver Skillet in five
years Firebirds living up to their nickname as back and
Forth Bacon Fork after dropping back down to double A
from triple A for the.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Fifth time in fifteen seasons. Baking Fork changes classes more
often in a school. Bale fourth down now after.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
The reptile Henderson caper on the RP one team out
there and it's a fake. Big Pete McCallister, the upback,
stood up and zipped it over the line. Toddler Moss
Park berth Down, Big old Peepe was born with paper
thin eyelids. He's like Steven Tyler's on the Armageddon soundtrack.
Even when he closed his eyes.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
He ain't gonna miss a thing.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
We just converted a trick play, which means the franken
steinmar will donate a costume of its choosing to one
lucky coffee Town peewee player. Coffeetown's trick is our tree
at the franken Steinmarer. Our academic athlete this week is
Coffeetown cheerleader Dantania Davis, the twin sister of Coffeetown linebacker
Nio Davis.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Says here, Dantania is.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
A mathematical luck to be the valedictorian and graduation. She
won homecoming queen last week and is also the youngest
worship leader in the one hundred and twenty five year
history of Coffeetown Baptist Church. John Tania was voted Miss
Coffeetown Senior Superative by her peers and also mentors troubled
youth at Coffeetown Elementary and Middle When she ain't studying,
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praising cheer, and the leading Dantania rescue straight dogs and
rehabilitates them before helping him find a good home, which
she also probably helped build through the Coffee Town Caris nonprofit,
the fundraiser she launched as a fifth grader. D'antania, it's
no surprise you got two first names, Darling, because you
got enough hard for two people. Tell me what's it
like to be the sister of the best linebacker in
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Coffee Town history. Okay, fourth and go bacon for four
seconds left in the ball game. We are up thirteen
to ten and they're going for the wind. Bacon fourth
quarterback Chunk Chamberlain gonna take the snap. He's got nobody open.
Chunk scrambles, not your Davis pushed them out at the
two and d'antania Davis playing him on the sidelines. Man loud,
That makes my lips numb. Nicho shoved him, Chunk stepped out,
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and don Tania was waiting there like an oak tree
wrapped in barbed wire. Night Shoe and Dantonia are getting
carried off, holding that skillet high in the October air.
Coffee Town is one went away from the playoffs. Now
get to fourk off our field.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well, the Braves did go on to win the World Series,
and I kind of was hoping to egg them on there.
I was hoping to push them over the edge with
that vision of Nacho and Don Tanya getting carried off
the field with the trophy high in the air, and
both teams got it done. Got it done that fall, well,
(16:22):
at least in that game, in the Braves winning the
World Series a really fun fall sports wise. Now, the
way that season ended was a little bit of a cliffhanger.
Coffee Town playing at Warburg, the stadium falls, it collapses.
Because I was going to stop doing the videos. I
was going to hang it up and quit doing it
because of where I was in my career at the time,
(16:45):
the job I had and didn't really allow me much
time to keep making these videos. It didn't really make
much sense. So that's kind of how I wrote the story.
I wrote it so that it was ambiguous. You didn't
know if Coffeetown won the game to make it to
the playoffs, and Max the ax Bell, the radio announcer
falls down in a stadium collapse, and Coffeetown didn't exist,
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didn't make any videos the following fall. Now, I had
an opening in my career situation and had the opportunity
to once again not only make these videos, but launch
Coffeetown as a bigger brand, as something that wasn't just
me making sketches for social media and getting likes and
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retweets and then everyone forgetting about it the next day.
I wanted to create a show and create an account,
a social media account, a community that was bigger than
just that character, and bigger than just the Coffeetown radio calls.
So that's why I created Go Fight, Win show that
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I did every week this fall, dropped every Thursday, and
this one is the last one of the twenty twenty
three year season as high school football comes to a
close and things slowed down. I'll still have some guests,
had some great guests on this year. Had Marty Smith
and our guest finale and pretty fitting ending there and
(18:17):
given that his show partner Ryan McGee was the first
guest of the year. Also had Booger McFarlane, Matthew Stinchcombe,
had David Pollock on, had some really great guests cons
from Barstool. The list goes on and on. You can
check it out. It's on Apple, It's on Spotify. Paul
(18:39):
Finebaum was on there. It was fun it was a
lot of fun to hear about these guys high school
football glory days. And those interviews will continue this winter,
and there will be some programming changes that we'll figure
out down the line, probably just go one episode every
other week instead of every week as some of these
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high school football stories slow down. But it has still
been a pretty successful, pretty fun first fall to do
this show, and I hope it has continued success, continued growth.
And that's why I need y'all to hit like and
subscribe and tell people about it so we can keep
doing cool stuff and go back to the drawing board
(19:22):
a little bit and see how this thing can be
even better now. Part of the plan, part of the package,
part of the vision for doing a show like Go Fight, Win,
is having a few different segments. The first segment of
each show kind of like the late night talk show model.
You have a monologue, You've got some stories from around
the country that you know, you kind of have some
(19:42):
jokes that you riff off of. A B block that
is a little bit shorter, has some humorous content, and
that's where I would put Coffee Town sketches when I
made them. And then the final block of the show
when we had guests, you'd have a nice subst stanchil
chunk to speak with a guest about his or her
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high school football experience. So Coffeetown did exist. I did
have Coffeetown sketches and games sprinkled throughout the Go Fight
Win season, and it all started off with a nice
little return Coffeetown playing on the road, and it ended
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up being the Copperhead's only loss of the season. Here
is the season opener for Coffeetown in twenty twenty three,
the start of another state championship season.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
For Town.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
The Copper Central gonna kick his saying, oh, put on
your safety goggles because it snots fixing a fly. Copper
Central is a six and a half point favorite. According
to the Copperhead Courrier. I was supposed to put money
on the ball games, but Mama bet the farmers she
needs a new pace maker.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Let's get it done, boys.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Reptile Henderson under center hands it off to krock Pot
Peters behind the right guard.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
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Speaker 2 (21:10):
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They're down now, nose of the ball on our own
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Speaker 4 (21:25):
Comper Central eats up.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Reptile puts them in the dirt before he gets even
hand a ball off man alive. We go to halftime
trailing save nothing and playing scared. Time Now for our
academic athlete, brought to you by Big Tire. Quarterback Reptile
Henderson has a four point zero working on his technical
degree in motorsports, same as is forty time.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
He's a spark plug of our offense.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Reptile put in new intakes and drive shafts and all
the team buses, and now they're topping out near triple
digits on a straight shot. The skill District's making the
team where helmets and shoulder pads two and away from
ball games. Even the bus driver and all the coaches
got to wear protective head gear. Reptile, how do we
nominate you in for a Nobel prize?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Son?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Okay, fourth and one from our own fifteen Copper Central
up ten nothing, recogn this will be the last play
at the ball game, Reptile hands it off to Crockpot.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
There's a whole twenty thirty run Krockpott, and by god,
he's gonna score.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Might take him a few hours, but by the end
of the night, you know, Crockpot is gonna cook. Copper
has falled ten six to start the season. Good teams win,
but great teams cover. It's still early, y'all. Coffee Town
ain't dead yet, and Mama ain't either.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So that's how the twenty twenty three seasons started. Copper
Central and Uh, there have been some good ad reads
in Coffee Town games in years past. That's the element
of the of the scripts and of the shows that
are really the most fun for me to do. And
the Gut Guy's gas Stroenterology has to be, if not
(22:58):
the favorite one of my fas favorite ad reads that
I've ever had, Gut Guys gastro Enterology.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
The other one in there in the uh Root Creek game,
the Nail Salon and Body. He'll paint your nail bed,
He'll paint your she'll paint your nail beds. He'll coach
your truck beds.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
You know there are stores out there that that do that.
You drive around the South long enough, around these back
roads all over the country, you see some interesting combo shops.
You know, you got some cold cuts and laundromats, you
got uh uh, you got long care, and you got
baby food. I mean, there's all kinds of things where
(23:40):
people team up and put their skills together and form
a business. And that's what makes America America. It's capitalism
and you never know how things might shape up out
there in the open market. But yet again, Coffeetown wins state.
Get you some state championship gear son a double a
state championship gear with the if that don't light you
(24:04):
fire your woods wit on the back of the T
shirt or on the other side of the coffee mug.
It's all there for you at the gocoffeetown dot com
team store. It's been a fun time making these Coffeetown videos.
I don't know how often I'll keep making them. It
is pretty time consuming, and I do you know, I
(24:25):
don't want to limit it. I don't want to limit
it to just sketches on the internet. You know, who's
to say it couldn't be a book one day or
some sort of streaming series if I had the right
package around it, you never know. That's what people envision
it as and say they'd love to see it on
Netflix and see it become a streaming series one day.
(24:46):
It's pretty difficult to make those things happen. But it
doesn't mean that we don't dream about it, right, doesn't
mean that we don't think about the ways that it
can happen. So until then, this has been a Coffeetown
ball season and it worked out pretty well. All right,
let's switch gears here. Let's take a look National Signing
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Day twenty twenty four. Now here on Go Fight Win.
It is a high school football show. It's the show
with all the high school football stories you love. Okay,
it's a story driven show. This isn't about the five
star guy out there in Texas. It's not about that.
It's about stories. It's about storytelling, and any guest that
(25:30):
comes on here you'll learn that. You'll see that. If
this is your first time listening to the show or
watching it, go back through and listen to the guests
and listen to the stories that y'all sent in all
fall to kick off this show. There are some amazing
stories out there that seem like they are out of
the Coffeetown universe, but they're real, their real life. And
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you know, I have names like Nacho Davis, Reptyle Henderson,
Donnie and Ronnie Chuggs, things that are certainly made up.
But then you have names like this. You have names
like this on signing Day twenty twenty four that y'all
tagged me in. I didn't even have to ask for
some of these names. Y'all just saw them and said, hey,
(26:13):
Wes needs to see this, Hey West needs to see Nitro,
Hey Wes needs to see Turbo, West needs to see
King Large. All right, so let's go through some of
these names, and I'll sign my own star ranking to
the names out here, and let y'all know what I
think about where they stack up. Let's start off with Montana,
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the Great State of Montana. Tommy Running Rabbit. Now, this
is a Native American name, so it's different than a
lot of the nicknames on this list, not the same
kind of thing. You know, it's a family name, it's
a it's a traditional name with great cultural heritage and significance,
(26:57):
but it doesn't mean it is an awesome So here
is Tommy Running Rabbit. If you're watching on YouTube and
not on the podcast, you can see Tommy Running Rabbit.
He is a six one, one hundred and ninety pound athlete.
He lists himself as a linebacker and running back, but
(27:17):
I don't know how much linebacker you'll play it. Six
flat one ninety uh. He is not ranked on any
of the recruiting services that I could find. I use
twenty four to seven sports to see how these guys
stack up their rankings. And you see that catch there,
then that's that's a heck of a grab. Running Rabbit
(27:39):
now will channel his prey mentality as a running rabbit,
and he'll also attack as the predator as part of
the Montana Grizzlies. Tommy Running Rabbit out of Browning High
School in Browning, Montana, staying in state. He'll go play
for Montana. And this is gonna be a fun career
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to keep tabs on here. Tommy Running Rabbit, Keep running, Tommy,
never stop? All right, That to me is a five
star name. Not every name on this list will earn
a five star. Don't think I'm just throwing out five
stars here. This is real talent evaluation, real name evaluation here.
(28:25):
So just because you're on the list doesn't mean you're
a five star. Let's go to Zaravian Gravy Johnson, Cincinnati commit. Now,
Gravy Johnson is this kind of a play on Sauce
Gardner sauce great name, and you know up North, gravy
(28:51):
is what you call sauce zarav and Johnson here goes
by gravy and it's really a good culturally flexible nickname.
Zaravian Gravy Johnson. Down South, Gravy's what you put on
your biscuits. Of North, Gravy's what you put on your pasta.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
So, Gravy Johnson is a three star according to twenty
four to seven Sports, six to two, one hundred and
seventy pounds and he will play cornerback. He's the eighteenth
best player out of the state of South Carolina and
the one hundred and forty fifth best. They rate him
here as a safety. But congrats to Gravy Johnson, who
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is gonna cover everything. He's gonna cover the field like
you cover your biscuits. Zaravian Gravy Johnson out of Clinton,
South Carolina, Clinton High School, the number seventeen player out
of the state. Wow, he's a three star player. I'm
(29:58):
gonna give him a five star our nickname though, five
stars for Zaravian Gravy Johnson. All right, what do we
have next. We've got King Large, King Large. Look at
this graphic here, King Large looks like he means business.
All right, King is out of Where is King Large from?
(30:23):
He is from Bellflower, California, Saint John Bosco, a proud program,
and he is the one hundred and second best California prospect,
the one hundred and third best offensive tackle in the
country six four to two hundred and ninety five. He's
actually not the biggest guy on this list of names
(30:44):
here that I'm rolling out, and with a name like
King Large, I expect you to be the biggest guy
on the list. So for that reason, King Large, the
three star player, I'm gonna give you a four star name. Now,
it's nothing personal. You just you got to live up
to the nickname a little better than that. King going
(31:06):
to smu hit the weight room there with the Pony Express,
and I'll see how you're doing. In a couple of years.
We'll reevaluate, maybe you pick up that fifth star son. Alright,
who's next? Another big boy? Jimithy Lewis. Jimithy. Now that's
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not a crazy name. It's not Nitro Tuggle, it's not
Turbo Richard. But Jimothy is a big boy going to
Mississippi State. Jimothy attends IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, thirty
fifth overall player in the Sunshine State and the twenty
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eighth best offensive tackle six ' six, two hundred and
seventy five pounds. Now that's a big boy. Like I said,
it's not the craziest nickname. But as my buddy on Twitter,
John tweets Sports pointed out to me, if you say
Jimothy with a Spanish inflection, that jay becomes an h
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and his name becomes Himothy. So, coach Jeff Levy, you
got you a big dog. You got Himothy. It's still
not the craziest name, though, So I'm sticking with four stars.
Sticking with four stars for Timothy Lewis. Now this is
where this list gets real. Nitro Tuggle and Turbo Richard.
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We'll give you a package deal for these guys here.
First up, Nitro Tuggle, special special name. Georgia signs him
and it was kind of a tough commitment. It wasn't
always an assumption that Nitro might stick with the Dogs.
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Georgia had to kind of fend off some other suitors there.
But Georgia picks up Nitro Tuggle, the number two ranked
prospect out of Indiana Napanee, Indiana Northwood High School. A
six to one, one ninety pound receiver. He's really explosive,
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lives up to his name. Go watch his tape. A
four star recruit according to twenty four to seven Sports,
but easily a five star name. And he's not related
to Jesse Tuggle that I'm aware of. But the Dogs
got them some dynamite between the hedges, some tnt in
the classic city at White ol Now. Next up is
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Turbo Richard, going from Nitro to Turbo. Turbo, also out
of the state of South Carolina. Just like our earlier player, Gravy.
Turbo is from rock Kill, South Carolina, Northwestern High School
is going to Boston College. The twentieth overall prospect from
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South Carolina, the one hundred and six best running back
in the country. A five ten, two hundred and seven
pound running back. Kind of a block, just a block
of a guy. He can scoot. A three star running back,
but turbo at the running back position. Fast fella, I'm
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giving you a five star name. Son. Once he hits
turbo mode, it is over turbo going from rock Hill
to Chestnut Hill. Turbo Richard is on the move. Good
luck slowing him down the last list and listen, some
great names here. And I thought that Nitro Tuggle was
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going to be the name to beat, but we have
a late challenger that was not on my radar before today.
He is now Willie Nelson going to Oklahoma State. That's right, Mamas,
don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. But
(35:12):
guess what, Mama, Willie Nelson's gonna be a cowboy. He's
not gonna wonder should I have been a cowboy? Should
I have learned a rope and ride?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
He is just like Willie out of Texas. But he's
going to Oklahoma State, the one hundred and eightieth overall
prospect out of the lone Star State, the one hundred
and thirty fourth best safety in the country, five nine,
one seventy. Gonna need to stack up a little bit,
(35:45):
Gonna need to put some muscle on there. Willie, the
other Willie Nelson is five to six, one hundred and
fifty eight pounds according to Google. Uh three star. But
is there any doubt, Willie Nelson, I'm going to Stillwater.
That's a five star name. Hey, I hope y'all have
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a great holiday. Thank you for watching the show. Thank
you for hitting, like hitting, subscribe for listening. Wherever you
do this, it is appreciated. I love doing it. It
is fun to do. We'll see what it looks like
in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty four. But here,
in the year twenty twenty three, almost twenty episodes under
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the old Belt. Here Coffeetown wins State, some championship, elite
caliber guests and some phenomenal stories that you sent in
from around the country and from your own high school
football playing days, and some amazing mascot profiles as well.
We had Martians, we had Gobblers. We had it all, baby,
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and this train will continue to roll in twenty twenty
four after a little bit of r and all for
the holidays. Congrats to all the other state champs out there,
and all the other non state champs. If you're playing
high school football, you're okay with go fight, win. You're
okay with this crew. See you'll have a great holiday,
Happy new Year, see you back here in January. Peace,
Host
Wes Blankenship
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