Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Day 156: Everything's Bigger in Texas... Including High School Football Finishes!

Remember the television show Friday Night Lights? This show was a great mix of football heroics with a dash of steamy romance and a heaping spoonful of high school angst. So naturally it's one of my all-time favorites and I often miss watching the Dillon Panthers of West Texas with their fiery leader, Coach Eric Taylor and the rugged yet boozy fullback, Tim Riggins. Thank heavens for Netflix, that's all I can say. (FYI: All five seasons are streaming on Netflix...)

High school football is just getting started around the country and already in this young season is a play worthy of one you could only see on a television show. It could've been Brian "Smash" Williams ducking and weaving through a sea of opposing players, all of whom just wanting to crush him. But it wasn't made for television... it was, however, made in Texas.

"Everything's bigger in Texas." Isn't that the saying? Evidently that saying pertains to high school football plays—and this play is going to be a hard one to beat! Yahoo! Sports Prep Rally did a pretty damn good job of setting up the scenario.
The video you see below, which was brought to Prep Rally's attention by the good folks at Bob's Blitz, comes from a game between Copperas Cove (Tx.) High and A&M Consolidated (Tx.) High, a highly-ranked grudge match between well respected Class 5A Texas squads. With Copperas Cove holding a 41-38 lead with just one second left on the clock, the Bulldogs decided that the best way to seal a huge early season home victory was to use a squib kick on the ensuing kickoff.  
That was an enormous mistake. 
Instead of a clean, quiet conclusion, what ensued was the freak kickoff return to end all kickoff returns. Tigers running back Brandon Jackson fielded the squib cleanly and cut up field ... then cut back again and eventually appeared cornered. That's when he shoveled the ball off to fellow running back Derrick Dick, who had no problem taking the ball the rest of the way to the end zone.  
No time left, six points A&M Consolidated, 44-41 victory, Tigers.
Watch and just try not to be in awe of this play... and try not to think of what the coach of the losing team had to say in that locker room after the game. Special teams might be doing a few more suicide drills in the next practice.

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