My All-American

WOMAN:
Coach Royal, I'm Casey

Addison from the Daily Texan.

ROYAL:
Hello. Hey, sit down.

- Thanks for meeting with me.

- Sure. Sure.

Coach, I'm writing a story about

legendary Texas football players,

and you're a legend yourself.

Was I a player?

Why, yes.

You were a great football

player for the Oklahoma Sooners

in the late 1940s.

I'll be doggone.

I knew that.

(laughs)

But you coached UT and won

three national championships.

Yes.

Texas had 30 All-American

players while you were coaching.

Which one had the greatest

impact on you and the program?

Freddie.

Freddie Steinmark.

I'm sorry, Coach,

but Freddie Steinmark

wasn't an All-American.

No.

But he was my All-American.

You see, a player's skills and

character are influenced years

before I ever meet 'em.

I gain the benefit from

all the other coaches

who instilled fight and

grit in their hearts.

MAN:
Rough Riders' creed:

"I will play hard and clean,

and I will not be a quitter."

What's most important is courage.

It's not a disgrace to be beaten.

The greatest disgrace is to quit

or to turn yellow.

- You got that?

- ALL:
Yes, sir!

- Let me hear it again.

- Yes, sir!

Now, get your butts out

there and practice hard.

Steinmark, stay here.

You did good last game.

You scored a lot of touchdowns.

But you would've done better

if you run in a straight line.

You get to the end zone quicker.

You zigzag too much.

My dad taught me to run that way.

When you play for your father's

team on Tuesdays and Fridays,

you can zigzag.

On Mondays and Saturdays,

you run a straight line.

- You got that?

- Yes, sir!

- Get out there.

- (whistle blows)

Wind sprints! Let's go!

WOMAN:
Oh, look. Sammy

wants some peas. Come on.

- You want a little pea?

- MAN:
Come on, Sammy.

I want you to finish the

whole thing for me. Okay?

If you're gonna be a great player, you

gotta get some meat on those little bones.

How did my boy do at practice today?

I scored five touchdowns.

Six.

Our guy's gotta work a little

bit harder out there on the field

because he's always the smallest one.

- Isn't that right?

- I try as hard as I can.

What makes a winner is learning

that they can always try harder.

- Is that enough parmigiana?

- Yes, Mama.

Maybe a little bit more. Huh?

We gotta get you to Notre Dame.

That's right. Great

education and great football.

Give me a kiss. Huh? Come on.

That's my guy.

MAN:
When I took this job,

they told me that you haven't

won a division championship

in 25 years.

Haven't beaten Lakewood in 15 years.

The pure and simple fact

is you all are pathetic.

But not for damn long.

We will beat Lakewood.

We will win the conference championship.

And we're not stopping there.

And anybody who doesn't

get on board with my plan

can move your sad, sorry ass out

of my eyesight now and forever!

Are there any questions? Good!

Now, we got a new kid here from California.

And he may be just what the

doctor ordered for this team.

He's gonna be carrying the

rock a lot for us this season.

Any questions?

I didn't think so.

Now we prepare for war.

Out on the field! Now!

Now! Now! Not a minute to waste. (clapping)

Hey!

Let's go!

Go!

Let's go!

(stopwatch clicks)

Freddie Steinmark.

Glad you're part of the team.

You'll really help us this year.

I wish I was back in California.

It's pretty nice here in Colorado.

Yeah, well, this team's nowhere near

as good as the one I was on there.

It will be.

Yeah. Sure it will.

Now that you're on the team,

I say state championship.

You haven't won your division in 25 years.

You're talking state championship?

You're nuts.

MAN:
Uno, dos. One,

two, tres, cuatro!

Go!

Hey! Wooly bully

Watch it now, watch it

Here it come Here it come

Watch it now He get you

Matty told Hatty

About a thing she saw

(cheering)

Had two big horns

And a wooly jaw

Wooly bully

That's right!

You're really fast for a big guy.

We can use you this year.

Wooly bully

GIRL:
Just pretend like you've

gone to school here all your life.

Like anywhere else, the jocks and

the cheerleaders rule the school.

And the jocks are mostly jerks.

Except one.

Freddie Steinmark.

He's sweet. He goes to mass every day.

And he is, by far, the

cutest boy you will ever see.

He broke every scoring record

both in basketball and football.

I don't like sports.

You don't have to like sports

to have a crush on Freddie.

- You just need a pulse.

- BOY:
Hey, Freddie!

- You gonna make it to workouts tonight?

- I'm in. See ya.

All right...

He looked at you.

He's okay.

Go.

GIRL:
He's here every day

after his regular practice.

His dad trains him pretty hard.

- DAD:
Five!

- Maybe it's not his dad.

Maybe it's what he wants

to do to get better.

All I know is he's exceptionally dreamy.

DAD:
Time!

- (panting)

- 11.9! Great!

Great! Do it again!

You know, he stares at you

every day and never says a word.

Maybe he's shy.

The most popular kid in

school is shy? I doubt that.

Well, what do you think it is? I...

Maybe it has something to do

with him being so religious.

No. Boys that go to mass every

morning can't talk to girls?

I don't know.

Hustle up. You still got five more.

Be right back.

- Don't... You have to start the car.

- Uh... Uh...

- Here.

- No. I can't.

- (engine cranking)

- I don't want these.

- (cranking)

- Debbie. This is so embarrassing.

Hi.

- Hi.

- Hi.

You know, we were just...

we were just looking for a...

- Picnic.

- Picnic area for a bunch of girls...

- Surprise party.

- For a surprise party for a bunch of girls.

- Yeah.

- Do you wanna go out sometime?

- What?

- Do you wanna go out?

Go out with-with me?

Yeah.

Ok... Yeah.

Yeah, that would... that would be great.

Great. When?

- Oh, I don't know. Uh...

- How about tonight?

If I run about 20 more

reps, I might get the car.

Tonight.

I just have to ask.

All right. Some other time.

No, tonight will be fine. Right?

- Yeah?

- Mm-hmm.

- Yeah.

- Great.

What's your address?

- Uh...

- It's, uh, 2678 Pear Blossom.

Oh. Nice area.

(softly) Thank you.

How about 7:
00?

7:
00 is perfect.

- It's perfect.

- Great.

- Thanks, Debbie.

- DEBBIE:
Uh-huh.

- Okay, I'll see you then.

- Okay.

Please start the car.

GIRL:
Is this... Is this your car?

Uh, no, no. It's my dad's.

I have to get it back by 8:00 tonight.

He has to be at work at 9:00.

- What's he do?

- He's a Denver policeman.

- Oh.

- At least, that's his night job.

During the day, he's a security guard.

- Hard worker.

- Very.

My mom too. She's a clerk in the hospital.

I'm, uh... I'm gonna take

you to my favorite spot.

Okay.

FREDDIE:
I can see my whole life,

present and future, from right here.

Look. There's Wheat Ridge

High field, where I'm playing.

- Yeah.

- There's Boulder,

University of Colorado,

where I might be playing

if Notre Dame doesn't offer me.

And there's Denver, the Broncos.

That is, if the Chicago

Bears don't draft me.

I don't know that much about football.

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