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When the Game Stands Tall Page #2
You kidding me?
- I'll break that.
- Guys, guys!
Come here! Give me that horn!
Come back here, you little-
Here he is. Good run?
- Hey, Terry.
- Hey, there he is.
Cal State. What do they want?
It's just a coaching offer.
You're throwing it in the trash?
A job offer. We don't get to talk about it?
College coaching. It's not what I do.
But we should at least discuss it, Bob.
- Terry.
- Hey, great pancakes.
Wow, okay.
You, Louis Armstrong, in your room.
Practice.
Gotta take the tree down.
I've been up since 5. I'm just like...
Make sure your room is clean,
Michael.
You should at least consider it, Bob.
Great pancakes.
He acts like it doesn't mean anything
to him...
...but he's got a diary,
just counting down the TDs.
- A diary?
- She's a chronic liar.
- A very, very ill young woman.
- Really?
Did I mention delusional?
- You have a diary.
- It's a playbook. At least my earrings...
- ...aren't bigger than my girlfriend's.
- Sure. Okay. That's mean, but true.
Yo, my fellow Spartans.
I gotta mind my etiquette.
You're officially Captain Chris I'm-Gonna-
Break-the-State-TD-Scoring-Record now.
Well, at least the vote was based
on ability...
...not family connections, little Lad.
Like how I'm gonna be starting
wide receiver and not you?
Hey, man. It's cool. We'll see.
Oh, look out. Here comes the luckiest
cornhusker in Contra Costa County.
- Beasie!
- What's up?
- How's it going, fellas?
- Hey, girls.
My big man on the line.
- To the house.
- Okay.
- Okay, 0K9)'-
- I'm gonna go freshen up. Wanna come?
- Yes.
- How much fresher can she get?
- Too fresh for you.
Sassy.
Why do they do that? Go together.
- How did you get with her?
- She asked me out.
- She asked him out.
- Tell me you're jumping all over that.
No, we're- We're waiting.
- They're waiting.
- Yeah.
- For what?
- The big day.
We took a purity pledge.
Son. What's the name of the cult
that you're in?
Pleasant Hill Baptist.
That boy's taken one too many shots
to the head.
Sounds like all the other college offers.
- A nice house?
- Yeah.
The kids going to college for free?
What was I thinking?
Look, the players are handpicked,
self-motivated, smart...
...eyes fixed on their bright futures.
They don't need what I do, Bev.
They don't need a coach
who knows the game inside and out?
to become honorable, accountable men...
...with self-worth?
Bob, you do it and I've watched you do it
brilliantly since I was 23 years old.
I wouldn't be helping anyone.
I mean, shouldn't it be easier?
Don't you deserve that?
I've seen the schedule
for college coaches.
You think it'd be easier, less grueling?
It would not.
You don't know. How do you know?
I just want you happy and healthy...
...and yeah, home every once in a while,
just playing football with your own kids.
Going for a stupid walk
for hot chocolate...
...maybe more than, you know,
twice a decade.
You- You're gonna get your record,
bro.
Even if Mickey has to steal it.
Forget about your dad.
You're 37 touchdowns away
All right, it's about you.
Us.
- Our year.
- Our year.
- Hold them high, boys. Hold them high.
- T.K.
- What's up, big guy?
- To your year. Chris, you-
You're captain now. My man Danny
over here, he grew up on the team.
Has all the credit,
he doesn't need a title.
Kind of makes me wonder.
About what?
If it's gonna be your year,
or some other team's year.
- K, we haven't lost a game-
- I know, believe me.
I'm just saying, you guys gotta
open your eyes. You ain't ready.
On skills, you have half the team we did.
On attitude, most of y'all got big heads
or just wanna wear the jersey.
So you gotta step up.
You gotta become real leaders.
You have to motivate your players
to get their game even tighter than ours.
Next year is on you.
Take care, boys.
- Peace, man.
- Yeah.
It's time to deal
with the De La Salle problem.
Last year, De La Salle out-scored
league opponents...
".326 t027.
Their average score
against league teams was 47 to 4.
How, Bob? How are we supposed
to compete against a program...
...that pulls in the best players
with the wave of a scholarship?
For the hundredth time...
...De La Salle High's code of conduct
forbids scholarshipping athletes.
Explain to me why
the best wide receiver in my district...
...rides a bus for a solid hour
up to De La Salle.
Our program attracts great athletes,
plain and simple.
No matter how you get your players,
you're stacking your team with talent.
- That's not cheating?
- Let me get this straight.
You wanna penalize
us for building a winning program?
I'm done with this! Nobody wins 151
football games straight without cheating.
We will not play De La Salle
next season.
Great. Done.
We don't wanna play you either.
We'll play our five league games...
...then we'll fill our open slots with
tougher teams from bigger conferences.
Gee, seems like I heard
the 49ers already have a full schedule.
Who's left?
Long Beach Poly.
Eidson, Poly's the number-one
high-school team in Southern California.
Yeah. Isn't it great?
Poly?
- Never said you set it up.
Nationally, we're number one.
They're number two.
They've been trying to get us
on their schedule.
They're not afraid of us.
Guys, can't wait to see you play Poly.
Good luck.
You can thank me later.
In Luke 6:
38......Luke says,
"Give and it will be given to you.
Good measure, pressed down,
shaken together and running over...
...will be poured into your lap...
...for with the measure you use,
it will be measured to you."
Any idea what Luke is saying here?
Arturo?
You reap what you sow.
Like, whatever you do, good or bad,
comes back to you.
Anyone else think you give to others...
...and the blessing is returned
in equal measure?
Salinas.
I've worked hard to do the right thing,
and I've been blessed.
- How's that?
- Getting to play on the streak team.
You ain't in line to be starting quarterback
on the streak team...
...because you've done the right thing.
It's because you're 6'2"
with a cannon for an arm.
So, Tayshon, what do you believe?
Well, down where I sleep, the dealers
in Richmond make mad money.
My aunt was an ER nurse.
Worked her whole life helping people.
Time came for her to get hers,
they up and fired her...
...six months
before they gotta pay her retirement.
Dog-eat-dog. Take what you need.
They don't care how good you've been.
You sitting around waiting for somebody
to pay you back, you going hungry.
So why does a guy like Luke,
who's a doctor, painter, writer, historian...
...take the time to invent a lie?
It ain't a lie.
Your pops dies, five-O puts your mom
on trial for it when, oops...
...our bad, the shipyard poisoned him.
Pressure gives her a stroke
and now she ain't got long.
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