It is not uncommon for football teams to play as if their life depended on.
For hares in Poly of Long Beach, their lives really do.
"4th and Forever" tells the story. An absorbing new docu-series on current TV, she tells the 2010 issues of California Long Beach football season haute école Polytechnique, where life is difficult, but the football team is more difficult. Or better to be. (He first Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT).
"What the heck is going on?". Fighting do football! "moans coach Raul Lara when a fight on the ground broke out during a scrimmage of preseason with rival school St. John Bosco.
He is correct, up to a point. But the preservation of the glorious legacy of Long Beach Poly is a struggle. Therefore every angry day for players on the grill.
Their simple dream, shimmering colors: for a land College football award and breaking loose of this disadvantaged world, ravaged by gangs.
"If I do break the tackle, then my son will be able to eat," says Jeremiah Hollowell with not too much exaggeration. The top running back is already a single father, and he fights to escape.
In the past, many have crossed this transcendent goal line, and that they serve the current workforce of appealing role models. Poly was recognized by Sports Illustrated as one of the schools in the nation Top Athletic for the past five years, and he sent more than National Football League players than any other high school. (Graduates include to Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson and Winston Justice offensive lineman, linebacker for the Cardinals for the Arizona Pago Togafau, Omar Stoutmire security for the Washington Redskins and the Houston Texans' linebacker Darnell Bing.)
Raul Lara has recorded 100 victories in nine seasons as head coach of the Poly - while retaining his job full time on the quarter at night as a probation officer.
But Poly came off the coast of a disappointing 6 season and 6 the previous year. It was their worst season in 15 years. They lost to local rival Lakewood, for the first time in more than a quarter of century.
Lara feels the pressure. If the hares cannot return on it, he said bluntly, "I here."
This is "4th and Forever" began, and through his first one-hour and subsequent eight hour, it documents the fate of the last season of the team and several key players.
They include:
-Dabness Atkins, brainy senior defensive back and team captain who has his vest on Harvard University, he excels in academics and athletics without parental support. He and his father-in-law do you along. He lives with the manager of the Poly team.
-Devin Jackson, senior defensive lineman takes a chore added outside the school and football: with both parents for their work, it helps support his family by selling knives door-to-door kitchen.
"My family is the most important part of my life," he said. "I want to make proud and create a better life for them." And to do this, I have come out of Long Beach.
-There is also Emmanuel Lara, the soft junior quarterback which is located in an awkward place as he fights to the starting position: his father is the coach.
-Chaiyse Hales, an another young quarterback, is in competition with the son of the coach to be the starter. He comes from a single family and has not seen his father for more than five years.
-And then there's Jeremiah, whose mother, a single parent of four, is the driving force in his life.
No comments:
Post a Comment