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see nothing but the back of your jersey.

All right. Get out there.

The handoff is to Clay.

Finds a big hole. Now cuts outside.

Beats one tackler. And another.

- Get upfield, son. Turn it on!

- He may go all the way.

- Touchdown, Hanna!

- Yeah! All right.

Johnny Clay with a 30-yard run

gives the Jackets the lead!

- Less than two minutes to play.

- That's what we want.

That's a 30-yard run, son!

That's our ball game!

That's our ball game!

- Evening, fellas.

- Hey, coach.

- Harold.

- Honeycutt.

Del. Don.

Kurt. Dennis.

Just brewed that pot 10 minutes ago,

coach. Got yourself the first cup.

All right.

Well...

...didn't exactly thump them...

...but it wasn't too bad

as far as season openers go.

Frank, your boy, Johnny,

had a heck of a run.

Give him the ball,

he'll make you a smart man.

That's right.

Did notice a few things

we need to work on.

You reckon these are the boys

gonna take us back to state?

Come on, Clive. Little early

for that kind of talk, isn't it?

I hear Easley has a pretty

decent crop of speed this year.

I guess we'll see about that

next week.

Think you might want to throw

the ball a bit more?

I think about a lot of things.

Listen, boys. Last thing coach needs

is us asking him a slew of questions.

Especially after how he got

those young men to play.

We got them revved up, didn't we?

So how do you plan on beating those

Easley boys Friday night?

Well, Frank, if I was to tell you

that...

...y'all wouldn't have a thing to talk

about all week.

Boy, that's a good cup tonight, Del.

Thank you.

Come on, turn it up! Turn it up!

Turn it up!

Good job! Good job!

Hey, Honeycutt.

Yeah?

See that young man over there?

What do you figure he wants?

I don't know.

Come on, Spaulding,

bring it around there!

I think maybe he's thirsty.

Well, go on.

All right. Five minutes.

Get yourself a drink.

Get on special teams.

How you doing?

Yeah, you. No, wait, wait.

It's all right.

Settle down. I ain't gonna

give you a hug.

Just got a little water here. See?

I'm dropping something off here.

Little something from Coach Jones.

Got a name, son?

You ain't gonna talk to me, are you?

All right.

Go ahead. Go on, give it a squeeze.

Set! Hut!

- Come on, now!

- Good job, Justin.

All right, bring it in!

Hi.

Glad you came by.

Thank you. What's your name?

Why don't you come on in.

I got some hamburgers coming.

Get your buggy. Come on in.

Really good burgers.

Oh, you found some music

you like. Good.

Hey, look who's here.

No ketchup, no onion.

Thank you.

- He tell you his name yet?

- He doesn't talk too much.

But he's sure taken a liking

to that radio of yours.

Radio.

Radio, huh?

You know, it's just sitting there.

You can have it as far

as I'm concerned.

Hey, you hear that...

...Radio?

Coach Honeycutt says you can take

that home with you if you like.

Hey, are you hungry?

Would you like a hambur...?

You want something to wash it

down with too? Root beer? Coke?

Coke.

- Man knows what he wants.

- Coke, it is.

Well...

...which way's home, Radio?

There's nothing wrong

with a good country station.

But I can get used to this too,

I guess.

You know, the boys call me

Coach Jones.

Coach Jones.

You can call me what you like

when you get around to it.

All right?

I hope you can come by practice

tomorrow.

The same time. All right?

See you then, okay?

Afternoon, ma'am.

I'm Harold Jones. I coach the football

team over at Hanna High.

I was just giving your boy

a ride home.

Come on in now, baby.

Look.

Hey.

- Hello.

- Yeah.

- Look.

- I see you got yourself another one.

Look.

Oh, look at that.

You get that from him?

Yeah. Coach Jones.

Look at that one.

He a nice man?

Yeah.

Good.

I think it's time you got washed up

for dinner. You hungry?

- Yeah.

- I made you some fried bread.

All right. Get yourself washed up

for dinner.

Set!

Set!

Get in there! Get in there!

Bring it in! Come on, hustle up!

Let's go.

Come on, hustle up!

Bring it in. Good job. Good job.

Good practice, men.

We got a lot to think about this week.

Easley's got a ton of speed.

Defense, containment. We gotta

keep them from getting outside.

Offense, ball control. We'll grind it

out, keep their offense off the field.

Now, there's one other thing.

See the young man over there?

Believe some of you already

know him. He goes by Radio.

He'll be helping us out for a while.

We will not have a problem with that.

No, sir.

Call it up, Danny.

- One, two, three!

- Beat Easley!

- What's he doing?

- That's it. Get your knees up.

Look at him out there.

That one! That one!

That one!

Careful.

Sorry.

I'm sorry, Johnny.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Johnny.

I'm sorry.

You okay.

Hanna!

Hanna!

Hanna!

What the hell is going on out there?

Yellow Jackets still looking to

get on track. Marcum back to pass.

Intercepted!

Don't quit! Don't quit!

Don't quit!

Go! Go!

That was a good one.

I liked that one.

Radio!

Hi, everybody. Hi, everybody.

Hi, everybody.

Quite a show you put on tonight.

Just wondering if you were running

a football program or a social club.

Radio, I need to talk to your mama.

That okay?

She right there.

- Hi, Mama.

- There's a sandwich in there for you.

- I'll be in there directly.

- Okay, Mama.

Ma'am.

I was wondering if we might carry

your son tomorrow on the team bus.

Got us a football game.

What your boys done to my son

was wrong...

...but I don't expect you

to make up for it.

The boys are taking to him real good.

They're still boys, now, ain't they?

I'll keep a good eye on him.

I guess it's all right with me.

I don't mean to pry, ma'am...

...but I was hoping...

...I might be able to ask you

what exactly is wrong with him.

Well, the doctors never could

give me a name for it.

Say he the same as everybody else,

just a little slower than most.

I got a older boy, Walter.

He's fine and all.

And their daddy?

He died a while back.

I'm sorry.

You got your hands full.

Well, they got me working 10 hours

a day at the hospital. Some days more.

So I'm wondering where he's at

half the time...

...and worrying all the time.

Because I figure they only gonna need

one excuse to put him away.

James is a good boy, coach.

He got himself a good heart.

Most folks just don't take the time

to see it, is all.

James.

James Robert Kennedy.

Thank you, ma'am.

No, he is not getting on that bus.

Harold, he is not a student.

You don't even know how old he is.

Look, he has a handicap

we know nothing about.

What if he has some kind

of a seizure?

He's not the one who's

gonna have the seizure.

This has nothing to do

with any of that.

If you're saying

I'm overly concerned...

...about my students being with

a severely handicapped black man...

...I assure you that I am.

But my concern is not necessarily

for my students.

I'm not so sure we're trying to help

somebody here...

...or whether he's being used as

nothing more than a glorified mascot.

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