In Football We Trust Page #6

and cheer for the team.

Man:
9 minutes.

Let's go. 9 minutes.

Dear Father in heaven,

we bow our heads

before thee today,

express our love...

[Chanting in foreign language]

[Crowd cheering]

[End of national anthem playing]

[Crowd cheering]

Kalasita:
Come on, guys!

Whoo!

[Crowd cheering]

[Cheering]

[All shouting]

Kalasita:
Is only two schools

we have to pick from,

which is Utah and USC.

Boy:
Utah or USC?

I think Harvey should

go to U. Of U.

Pffft!

Because...

Sam:
Hey, just wait

for your turn, OK?

He can stay close

to the family here.

Yeah. All right, well,

I think Harvey should go

to Utah just because

he'll be close to home.

I think that he should

go just wherever

his heart wants to.

For me, I want Harvey

to go to Utah.

Harvey:
Thanks, everyone,

for your guys' opinions.

I'm stuck, you know?

Because I told myself

I'm gonna make it one day

so I can help out you guys.

The problem is... the problem is

I said to myself...

And then this stupid thing

that happened with the police

and stuff, and I got suspended.

Everyone hated me.

I went to school.

No one liked me.

But then when I do good

in football and all this stuff,

they come up, like,

"Oh, what's up, Harv?"

And then right when

I leave, they hate me.

They talk crap.

All my best friends,

they talk crap.

They just say they're

my friends and stuff

just because of

my success right now.

The world is yours until

you just do something stupid.

Vai:
The thing that's difficult

for the kids that are growing up

is that their parents expect

them to play in the NFL

at the cost of everything else.

It's hard to get in there,

and it's hard...

it's hard to get in there.

It's even harder to stay.

Um, and if kids grow up

thinking,

"Well, that's all I'm gonna do

and nothing else,"

um, it's... they're a long shot

to succeed in life, period.

Kauata, voice-over: Leva right

now got referred by the courts

to Decker Lake Youth Center,

a juvenile jail.

It's been two months.

Vita, voice-over: He could

get an early release,

but I don't think...

I don't see that happening.

Just all of those

charges from before...

assault on a police officer,

um, assault with

a deadly weapon,

burglary.

They're all felonies,

and he has 5.

Woman:
Can I help you, please?

Kauata:
Yeah. We're here for.

Leva Bloomfield's hearing.

You need to put

all your personal items...

your phones, purses...

in your vehicles.

So they only gave him

15 months and time served.

They were supposed to add on

two more years to this...

Yeah. And they didn't.

Man:
Why?

Because every aggravated charge

that he got... and he has 5...

is 6 months for each

aggravated charge,

but they decided not to

because of his

athletic abilities

and for his future. Future.

This is very rare,

what they did today.

He tries to act like he's...

it doesn't faze him,

but he wants to get out.

He's getting out in a year.

February 2012.

He won't be able

to play football at all.

He's not playing football.

His senior year.

He misses this whole year.

Ah, he weighs 215.

He weighs 215.

Kauata:
He's never been

over the 200 mark.

He is so excited right now.

It just sucks he's gonna

not be able to use it

until he's in college somewhere.

But he's gonna... he'll be ready.

Man:
Somebody's touching it.

He's about to give it

to his girl.

He's about to

give it to his girl.

No, wait...

[All talking at once]

Put that shirt on!

[Chatter]

[Fart]

[Laughter]

You...smell like...

Aah!

[Shouting]

Oh, man.

Fihi:
This is it... senior year.

Um...

I can't even think right now.

Um, the game's tomorrow.

It's the last game of my life.

Man:
Let's go. Bring it in!

Bring it in nice and tight.

Let's go!

Let's go, baby.

Get it on, baby!

Get it on, baby!

Let's go. Whoo!

[All shouting]

Make your own history!

Let's go, baby!

Come on, baby!

[Players chanting]

Hey, let's go.

What do you do with a chance?

What do you do with a chance?

Let's go. What do you do

with your opportunity?

Let's go. Let's go.

Yeah.

Here. Come on up here.

Good luck, Fihi. You're awesome.

[Cheering]

[Shouting]

Coach:
Right now they're...

whipping your ass!

Those little...been

talking...in the paper

all...week!

They look and see a big fat...

and they're saying,

"You can't block me!"

And you're proving them right!

Let's go!

[Whistle blows]

Fihi, voice-over:

It felt unreal.

We won by stopping them

at their goal line

in double overtime.

It just hurt not being

in the game

because I... I worked

so hard and so long

to be in that moment.

Man:
Game face: serious.

If one of you guys

cracks a smile,

you got to do it again.

All right, go back

and do it again.

Player:
You don't smile

in this thing.

Man:
Because you're showing not

only why you're All-Americans

because of your ability

but because of the character

that you possess, and you're

the example for every young man

in this great country.

Harvey, voice-over:

Being with the best players

in the nation...

Man:
[Indistinct]

Harvey, voice-over: getting

wined and dined every day,

hanging out with soldiers

every day...

[Crowd cheering]

Harvey, voice-over: I'm

an All-American, you know?

I can't believe it.

Don't forget that. The 27th.

Harvey, voice-over: If I do get

playing time at SC,

you already know for a fact that

NFL scouts are looking at you,

and just being away from home,

I can grow up.

After my first year,

I'd be a man, you know?

I'd know how to do things

on my own.

I've never done that.

Boy:
Dad, can we go on the field

and talk to Harvey?

Sam:
No.

No.

[Shouting]

[Whistle blows]

Harvey, voice-over: But I can

feel right when I got there

that I wasn't gonna get

that much playing time.

Um, there was kids missing

from practice every day

to go get interviewed,

and when they came back,

they were already

in front of me.

It's gonna be a long day.

Harvey, voice-over: There's too

many names at SC right now.

There's already, like,

6 running backs.

Like 5 good

running backs, and...

I know I can go over

there and compete

and probably get

a fullback spot,

but I'm not a fullback,

and I'm not

a linebacker, either.

I'll go play linebacker,

but they're already stacked

in linebackers too, I bet.

That sucks, too, sort of.

My mom's 20 minutes away...

[Imitating Kalasita] Harvey!

Why do you not go church today?

Don't know will God bless you.

[Beep]

Man:
Harvey Langi, USC Trojan,

Cardinal of gold, baby,

and I'm thinking about you.

I want to talk to you,

see what's up.

Different man:
Harvey,

Norm Chow at UCLA.

I don't want you to

forget about us, brother.

Third man:
Hello, Harvey.

My name is Colin [Indistinct].

I'm with WeAreSC.com and ESPN.

Give me a call back...

[Overlapping voices]

Man:
I'd like to pick

your brain a little bit.

Different man:
Please call me

back when you get a chance...

[Crowd cheering]

Man:
All right, Bob.

Thanks so much.

Well, take a look

at this beautiful scene here.

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