The Longshots Page #5

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When that ball come up,

are you ready to fire?

- I'm ready.

- Like a gun cocking back.

Ready to shoot. Ball up.

Ready to fire.

Down. Three things a quarterback

need to remember?

Feet, hands, release.

Ball up. Down.

- Ball up. Ready to fire.

- I'm ready to fire.

You look like a quarterback.

- [indistinct chatter]

- [whistle blows]

She cannot lose her first start.

Tiger left, X special. OK?

You can do this! Get in there!

Where I come from, football is played

with a round ball and feet.

Tiger left-end special!

Tiger the left-end special!

Let's go, Browns! Let's go!

Blue 32! Blue 32!

- Come on.

- Hut, hut!

[players shouting]

[crowd chattering excitedly]

[man] Go, go, go!

[crowd cheering]

[all groan]

- Goal!

- Yes!

Goal!

- Goal!

- It's touchdown, man! Touchdown!

- Touchdown!

- Touchdown!

[crowd shouting, cheering]

That's what I'm talking about!

- Yeah!

- Oh, yeah. Come on!

- That's what I'm talkin'...

- Come on.

I did it! I did it! I'm a quarterback!

I'm a quarterback!

Yes, yes, yes, yes!

[humming]

[all grunt]

[all grunt]

[squeals]

Sorry.

Let's go!

[all cheering]

[man] Ya'll looking good!

[crowd chants] Plummer, Plummer,

Plummer, Plummer!

Come on, girl!

Let's go! Let's go!

[cheerleaders] Let's go Thunderbolts!

- Let's go Thunderbolts!

- Hut, hut!

- [grunts]

- [whistle blows]

[all gasp]

What's wrong?

Got a little dirt in your skirt?

- Back off!

- [crowd boos]

- Come on, get up. kid.

- You OK?

Let's go.

She all right.

That's right, good job! Good job!

Blue 52! Hut, hut!

[shouting]

Yeah, yeah!

Yeah! Whoo!

[all shout]

What's the matter?

Got a little dirt in your skirt?

Ten, nine, eight,

seven, six, five

four, three, two, one!

Yeah! Yeah! We did it! We did it!

Yeah!

When you juked that linebacker,

I don't know what that man saw first,

the turf or Feather's ass

when he sat on the man!

Hey. Congrats on the game, guys.

- What's she doing here?

- What do you think? Part of the team.

I wouldn't be caught dead

playing football.

If you were playing football,

you would be dead!

- Six feet under, baby!

- Yeah, right.

Whatever. Just don't let me

catch you in the girls room again.

OK, Jaz-man?

Let's go.

Attitude.

They're just jealous.

Yep. This is it.

This curb right here did to me

what no defense in the state could do.

Tore my ACL,

ripped every ligament in my knee.

- What did you do?

- [scoffs]

Got a job at the factory.

Once that closed down,

out of work, like everybody else.

Why didn't you leave?

I should have left.

I ended up getting stuck.

You know, the history of sports

is really a history of firsts.

The first pitcher

to pitch a perfect game.

The first NFL team to go undefeated.

And now the first female quarterback.

Impossible, you say?

- You haven't met Jasmine Plummer.

- Hey.

- They're talking about Jasmine.

...to five straight victories.

Nobody's prouder

of this football team than I am.

But pride doesn't win football games.

Hard work wins football games.

Individuals have stepped up: Jasmine,

Feather, Manny.

Individuals.

But individuals don't win football

games. Team wins football games.

We've got two games left to play

to make the post-season.

- What wins football games?

- Hard work!

- What wins football games?

- Team!

- What wins football games?

- Hard work!

- What wins football games?!

- Team!

- What wins football games?!

- Team!

Bring it in!

Browns on three! One, two, three!

[team] Browns!

- Special teams.

- You got it.

[exhales]

Coach!

Dad!

[sighs]

- Hi.

- Hi.

- How's coach?

- He's doing OK.

But doc says too much stress, you know.

So no more football for now.

Oh.

Hmm.

Look, Jerry asked me

to coach the team.

That's cool.

Curtis, I can't do this alone, man.

Sorry.

I just think

I'm better off in the stands.

I ain't been on the field, man,

since... since I played.

Come on, Curtis.

Look at what you've done with Jasmine.

I know. That's just one girl, though.

It's not a whole team.

I just seriously think I'm

the wrong guy for the job.

All right.

Well, we play Harvey in three days.

And they're still

the best in the league.

You know I'll be there.

Right there in the stands,

rooting you on.

What you running from?

- I ain't running.

- I know a runner when I see one.

You're too young

to be feelin' sorry for yourself.

And too old to be this damn stupid.

You need to get yourself

out this park, boy.

Go.

[coach] Come on, now! We're in the

playoffs now. You better act like it!

Do I look like?

All right. Everybody listen up!

Heads up!

Coach Fisher's gonna be all right.

And so are we.

He wants us to win on Saturday,

and that's what we gonna do.

Looks like I'm gonna need a whistle

before the day's over.

Well...

I'll see if I can dig one up.

And stay down! Stay down.

Stop. Roll! Roll! Let me see!

Roll, baby!

Receiver should never

have false starts. Ever. Ever.

You gotta keep your eye on the ball.

Ready? Hut! Hut!

The game is won right here.

Line of scrimmage.

Give it to him, and you fake to him.

Keep your eye on him.

- Coach.

- Yeah?

I think you're gonna need

one of these.

- [chuckles]

- [team applauds]

Looks good, huh?

Are you serious?

Sometimes, you face opponents

that's bigger and stronger than us.

It's like facing a brick wall. Believe

you can run through a brick wall?

- [all] Yes, sir!

- Let me hear you say,

- "I believe!"

- [all] I believe!

- I believe!

- I believe!

- Who are we?

- [all] Minden Browns!

- Who are we?

- [all] Minden Browns!

- What we do?

- [all] We get down!

- What we do?

- [all] We get down!

Yeah! Yeah!

That's what I'm talking about.

- You love us.

- That's our team!

- Who are we?

- [all] Minden Browns!

- Who are we?

- [all] Minden Browns!

- What do we do?

- [all] We get down!

Yeah! Take me home!

If we're not committed to blocking

and tackling, not committed to winning.

- Who are we?

- [all] Minden Browns!

- Who are we?

- [all] Minden Browns!

- What do we do?

- [all] We get down!

- What do we do?

- [all] We get down!

This is it.

We got time for one play.

- Y'all remember we practiced on Friday?

- [all agree]

OK, Feather, it's on you. All right?

Run it. Run it to perfection. Let's go.

Stay on your feet!

Stay on your feet!

- Strong right!

- Let's go, team!

Watch the back!

Motion!

Shift, shift!

Blue 32! Blue 32!

Hut, hut!

[players shouting]

Sweep! Sweep!

Not the Rooskie.

- The Roo... They got the...

- [man] Fumblerooskie! Take it home!

[cheering, shouting]

Rooskie! They ran the Rooskie!

The Rooskie!

Whoo!

- Touchdown!

- Playoffs!

- What's a Fumblerooskie?

- Fool, don't you know anything?

Hey!

By now, the entire country has heard

about female quarterback phenomenon,

Jasmine Plummer.

She's carried the Browns to the playoffs

and they need one more win

to reach Pop Warner's Mid-American

Super Bowl for the first time

in 20 years. Part of that delay may have

to do with the harsh times

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