The Longshots Page #6

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that have hit Minden.

When the town's plant closed down,

jobs left, poverty and crime set in.

That is why Jasmine Plummer's rise

is so crucial to the town's

- struggling citizens.

- Hey.

Lookit here.

I don't know about the rest of you,

but that certainly

isn't the Minden I know.

Look outside there.

What do you see?

Main Street, right?

But the people in the news,

they are only gonna see

a rundown, dirty road.

- That's true.

- At the very least,

we can fix up our main drag,

now, can't we?

How we supposed to do that, rev?

This town ain't got no money.

- Nothing.

- It ain't all about the money.

Now lookit here.

The one thing we do know

is that here in Minden,

we got heart. Hey, lookit here.

Curtis and his team have shown us that.

Come on, ya'll.

Remember what I said in church

about if you only focus

on what you don't have,

you gonna forget about what you do have?

- Hmm.

- [quiet chatter]

Well I have another saying

when I ain't in church.

Sometimes, you just

got to wipe your own ass.

Amen.

- Shoot one over the side!

- You keep doing that, man, I tell you,

- I'll slap you upside your head.

- Get that? Hold up, hold up.

- Wait a minute.

- Man!

Got no time to be lookin'

at no scratch-off.

You can reach up better

with this roller.

Give me that!

What took you so long?

I almost killed myself.

Looking good, Kosowski.

- Hi, guys. Everybody's working.

- [chatter]

- [ladder rattling]

- Whoa, whoa! Hey!

- Kosowski! Grab that for me.

- All right.

All right. See you later.

- Hey, Minden's back!

- Whoa!

Minden!

I wanna take a little time right now

to acknowledge Feathers

for scoring an amazing touchdown

this Saturday.

Now, my favorite part is when

my man gets in the end zone,

he do the dance.

Man, you got to celebrate

all that hard work.

Let me see that dance, Feathers.

I want everybody to step in

and do that little dance.

See what you got.

[# Tag Team:
Whoomp! (There It Is)]

Oh, my God!

What you got, pretty boy?

What you got?

Thriller?

Was you even alive when that came out?

What you got? Come on, long hair.

[all cheer]

Always a breakdancer.

You gotta work on that. Do ya'll wanna

see what I used to do on this field

- when I scored?

- Come on, show us, coach.

When I got in the end zone,

I had to go old school.

- Old school.

- Jasmine, you be the ref.

I used to clown the ref.

When I scored, when I got in the

end zone, I used to look at the ref,

and then I used to hand him the ball.

Act like I've been there before.

And that's what we gonna do on this

team. We act like we been there before.

We gonna have some class,

we gonna have some sportsmanship.

Blue 31! Hut, hut!

[players shouting]

[crowd whistles, cheers]

- [crowd] Yeah!

- [blows whistle]

- Here you go.

- Yeah, baby! Yeah!

Hut, hut!

Come on!

He's got it!

- [whistle blows]

- Yeah!

- We're going to the Super Bowl!

- Whoo!

- Whoo!

- Yeah!

Here we go. Here we go. Yeah!

[whistle blows]

- Congratulations, coach.

- Well done.

[man] Hey, Curtis.

Look like you done put on a few pounds.

What you want, Roy?

- What you doin' here?

- What I'm doin'?

I came to see my kid

play a little pigskin, brotha.

Been seein' her all over the TV.

Look like the apple fell

under the tree, know what I'm sayin'?

Come on, now, fix your face

and give your brother...

What's all that for?

What's the matter?

What's the matter? Do you know

what you did to that girl?

By leaving her like that?

Now you gonna show up here

out of the blue 'cause she on TV?

Look, a lot of things happened, man.

But I'm gonna make it up to Jasmine, OK?

How? After five years?

How you gonna make it up, huh?

What you gonna do, you gonna waltz in

and then waltz outta her life?

That's what you gonna do, Roy.

I know you, Roy.

Crawl back to whatever rock you done

came from under. We don't need you.

- Dad?

- Showing up like this a family...

Jasmine?

Is that my baby girl?

Oh, my goodness!

Look how big you got.

- You were amazing out there.

- We made it to the Super Bowl.

I know. I saw.

Congratulations. Gimme some.

Oh, my goodness! I miss you so much.

We did it.

You know, you lookin' like your daddy

out there, back in his day.

Let's go and celebrate.

- You wanna go get some ice cream?

- OK.

Come on.

I really love football.

Uncle Curtis is so great.

He's been teaching me.

You lookin' real good out there.

Actually, back when I played, I was

actually better than your Uncle Curtis.

- Really?

- I bet he didn't tell you that.

- He never told me.

- I taught that boy everything he knows.

How to throw the ball,

how to stay in the pocket,

- how to read the defense, everything.

- Wow.

But that was back

when he was a little bit skinnier.

So you are going to the Super Bowl.

Yeah.

Now that I'm back, I'm gonna be

in them stands hollering,

cheering you on.

I'm sure you gonna win.

[siren]

Oh, man, it's getting late.

Hey, Claire! What's the damage?

- I got it.

- You sure?

- I said I got it.

- All right.

All right, Jasmine.

I got some things to do.

- OK.

- I'll see you at the Super Bowl.

- OK.

- Come give me some.

I'm proud of you, OK? All right.

Bye, Dad.

[man] Get somebody else, man.

That's all.

Oh, OK, he's here. We can start.

Hey. What's goin' on?

I just got off the phone

with Pop Warner.

We gotta cover

our own costs for the Super Bowl:

Travel, hotel, insurance,

food, everything.

We don't need nothin' fancy,

so shouldn't be a problem.

- We don't have it, Curtis.

- The other team,

they come from towns

that have a lot of money.

We got the heart, we just

ain't quite got the pocketbook.

I don't know, reverend.

'Cause if we got heart,

we got everything we need.

[man] I feel like this is the day

I'm gonna hit. Feeling lucky.

[man 2] Mm-hmm.

Whoo! Come on, now, baby.

I need a new pair of shoes!

You need a new game, man.

I'm tired of beating you.

- What's this, 1,500 in a row?

- Hold up. I got cherries.

- Come on.

- You hear me? I got cherries.

- You mean lemons.

- No, no, brother. I got cherries!

- Jesus!

- That's right!

- We need to cash this in!

- What about the game?

- Forget that!

- Hold up!

My most prized possession.

It might be worth more than a few bucks.

It's for the team.

Thank you, Edgar.

He loves that ball, man.

That's all I know.

[clears throat]

Look... All right, all right.

- Here.

- Thank you! Thank you, Kosowski!

We better win!

- They got enough!

- Put that, put that down. Come on, man.

Come on with the cherries.

Come on, come on!

There you go. I feel you. Come on.

- Oh, I know you would...

- You better be glad I'm in a church!

Don't mind him, he's a little sensitive.

You act like it was your money.

You see this? Three cherries!

Great God!

Hey, reverend. Now, for 20 years,

you done heard me say

how much I wanted to leave Minden.

Ever since my first job at the factory,

that's what I've been

savin' up to do.

But forget all that.

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