Football Fridays in Georgia
GHSA 2A Final: Buford vs. Calhoun
Season 2011 Episode 34 | 3h 8m 59sVideo has Closed Captions
GHSA 2A Final: Buford vs. Calhoun - Dec. 8, 2011
Dominique Swope scored on a 9-yard run in overtime as Buford became just the second Georgia school to win four consecutive state football championships, defeating Calhoun 31-24 for the Class AA title. Calhoun, down by 17 points in the third quarter, forced overtime on freshman Brandon Blaylock's 45-yard field goal with 10 seconds left in regulation.
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Football Fridays in Georgia
GHSA 2A Final: Buford vs. Calhoun
Season 2011 Episode 34 | 3h 8m 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Dominique Swope scored on a 9-yard run in overtime as Buford became just the second Georgia school to win four consecutive state football championships, defeating Calhoun 31-24 for the Class AA title. Calhoun, down by 17 points in the third quarter, forced overtime on freshman Brandon Blaylock's 45-yard field goal with 10 seconds left in regulation.
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YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE AT THE GEORGIA DOME WHERE OVER THE NEXT TWO DAYS.
10, TALENTED TEAMS WILL BATTLE IT OUT FOR STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS IN FIVE, CLASSIFICATIONS, WELCOME TO CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND HERE ON GPB.
I'M MARK HARMON AND TONIGHT, IT IS THE DOUBLE-A, AND THE FOR A TEAMS, TAKING CENTER STAGE.
AND TONIGHT HISTORY COULD BE MADE IN GEORGIA, HIGH SCHOOL, FOOTBALL HISTORY.
WELCOME TO CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND HERE ON GPB TIGHT.
WE SHOWCASE THE DOUBLE EYE AND THE 4A CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES.
IT IS GOING TO BE A TERRIFIC NIGHT OF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL.
MAY BE AN HISTORIC ONE, THE UNDEFEATED IN BUFORD WOLVES WILL TAKE ON CALHOUN AND GAME ONE.
THE BUFORD WOLVES ON A 27-GAME WINNING STREAK.
THE WOLVES HAVE WON FOUR.
STRAIGHT STATE TITLES IN A WIN TONIGHT WOULD BE A RECORD-SETTING FIFTH IN A ROW, OUR SECOND GAME TONIGHT.
A BATTLE OF UNBEATENS IS TODD.
FRANK TUCKER TAKES ON THE WILDCATS OF LOVEJOY, IT'S GOING TO BE A TERRIFIC NIGHT OF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ACTION.
ONLY ON GPB TIME.
NOW TO CHECK OUT THE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHUPS ON THE GEORGIA.
EMC, HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD.
NIGHT, WE'RE JUST MINUTES AWAY FROM THE DOUBLE A KICKOFF BETWEEN CALHOUN AND BUFORD AND THEN LATER TONIGHT AT 8:00 BATTLE OF UNBEATENS, THE TUCKER TIGERS TAKE ON THE LOVEJOY.
WILDCATS, THEN TOMORROW AT ONE SINGLE A, THE TOP-RANKED TEAM.
SAVANNAH, CHRISTIAN TAKES ON LANDMARK CHRISTIAN AT 4:30 AND CLASS.
AAA IT IS BURKE COUNTY TAKING ON PEACH COUNTY AND WE WRAP UP THE WHOLE WEEKEND TOMORROW NIGHT AT 8:00 WITHOUT BATTLE OF, HEAVYWEIGHTS THE WALTON RAIDERS.
THE GRAYSON RAMS BOTH UNDEFEATED IN CLASS, 5A TITS.
TERRIFIC SEASON OF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL HERE ON GPB.
WE HAVE HAD YOU COVERED FROM RINGGOLD TO VALDOSTA FROM SAVANNAH TO LAGRANGE BRINGING YOU THE VERY BEST IN HIGH SCHOOL.
FOOTBALL ACTION.
ALL SEASON LONG.
TONIGHT'S TELECAST OF THE BEAUFORT CALHOUN GAME AND ALL OF OUR GAMES ARE BEING INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE.
YOU CAN PARTICIPATE ONLINE AND TO EXPLAIN ALL THAT IS OUR CHAT HOSTESS.
JACKIE BRITTAIN, JACKIE.
THANKS MARK.
HI EVERYONE.
I WILL BE YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA CORRESPONDENT FOR TONIGHT'S GAME AND WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS ONLINE AT.
ORG SLASH SPORTS THAT YOU JUST CAN'T MISS OUT ON THE CONVERSATION.
WE'LL HAVE OUR LIVE CHAT STREAMING ALL GAME LONG.
AND THAT'S WHERE YOU GUYS CAN CHIME IN.
AND TELL ME WHO YOUR FAVORITE PLAYERS ARE TELL ME, WHO YOU THINK IS GOING TO WIN?
TONIGHT'S MATCHUP, WHATEVER YOU GUYS WANT TO TALK ABOUT.
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR TONIGHT.
NOW, THIS WEEK'S POLL QUESTION IS ALL ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AS IT CONTINUES TO ENTER SCHOOLS IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS IS TECHNOLOGY, A SOLUTION FOR IMPROVING AMERICA'S SCHOOL PERFORMANCE THOUGH.
YES, IF YOU THINK THERE ARE WAYS TO MODERATE IT SO THAT IT'S NOT ABUSED OR VOTE.
NO, IF YOU THINK IT WILL END UP MAKING STUDENTS TOO DEPENDENT ON NOW, DON'T FORGET GUYS, THERE'S AN APP FOR GPB SPORTS WITH UP-TO-THE-MINUTE SCORES, FULL SEASON SCHEDULES, SPORTS NEWS RANKINGS AND SO MUCH MORE.
AND THIS NEW APP IS THE PERFECT WAY FOR YOU TO KEEP UP WITH ALL OF YOUR FAVORITE GEORGIA.
HIGH SCHOOL, FOOTBALL TEAMS ALL SEASON LONG, SO BE SURE TO DOWNLOAD IT ON YOUR IPHONE OR YOUR IPAD TODAY.
NOW SOMETHING THAT WE STARTED LAST WEEK IS THIS, SEASON'S ULTIMATE PLAY OF THE YEAR.
WE WANT YOU GUYS TO WATCH FOR VIDEOS AND CAST YOUR VOTE ON WHICH PLAY OF THE YEAR, YOU THOUGHT WAS THE BEST.
THE OPTIONS ARE BETWEEN FLOWERY BRANCH VERSUS HERITAGE.
GRAYSON VERSUS BROOKWOOD.
CAL VERSUS MERITS PEACHTREE RIDGE VERSUS WALTON.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, GRAYSON AND VERSUS BROOKWOOD LEADS THE POLLS RIGHT NOW WITH 66%.
SO WE'VE GOT A BIG, BIG EVENT GOING ON IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD MARK.
ALL RIGHT, WE'LL BE HEARING FROM YOU ALL DAY TODAY AND ALL DAY TOMORROW.
THAT'S RIGHT.
ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
JACKIE.
NOW YOU CAN HEAR THE CROWD IS STARTING TO GET INTO IT.
IT IS GAME TIME.
IT IS TIME FOR THE BUFORD WOLVES TO TAKE ON THE YELLOW JACKETS OF CALHOUN.
IT IS GAME TIME.
IT IS CHAMPIONSHIP TIME.
IT'S TIME TO SET IT UP TO THE BROADCAST BOOTH AND MY GBD COLLEAGUE, BOB RAFTING, BOB, MARK, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND A VERY PLEASANT GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY.
WHEN THE SEASON BEGAN BACK IN AUGUST BUFORD WAS RANKED NUMBER ONE AND CALHOUN WAS RANKED NUMBER TWO AND I THINK THROUGH THE PLAYOFFS HAVE CHANGED THAT AND THEY MEET FOR THE 2A CHAMPIONSHIP HERE.
IN, JUST A MATTER OF MINUTES, LET'S CHECK THE ROAD TO THE DOME.
FIRST OF ALL, FOR BUFORD, THEY BRING WITH THEM A 27-GAME WINNING STREAK OVER TWO SEASONS TO THE GAME HERE TODAY.
A JUGGERNAUT THAT IS BLOWN THROUGH EVERY OPPONENT ON THEIR SCHEDULE AND A SCARE LAST WEEK AGAINST CARVER.
COLUMBUS, PUT A TERRIFIC SECOND-HALF WON THE GAME GOING AWAY AND WE'RE HIGH EXPECTATIONS HEAD COACH.
JEFF SIMPSON KNOWS ALL ABOUT THEM.
OUR KIDS, YOU KNOW, HAVE GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
THERE'S A LOT OF TRADITION THERE AND A LOT OF WAYS THAT'S A BURDEN AND I THINK THESE SENIORS HAVE CARRIED A HEAVY HEAVY BURDEN THIS YEAR UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU KNOW, EITHER WAY THIS FALL YOU KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE HISTORY AND YOU KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO TRY TO ANSWER THE BELL THIS FRIDAY AND GET IT DONE.
AND THE TEAM THAT BUFORD HAS PLAYED THE LAST THREE SEASONS OF THIS GAME IS BACK AGAIN.
CALHOUN DESTROYED APPLING COUNTY, THEY ARE 14 AND 0 AS IS BUFORD THEY GOT IT DONE WITH A TERRIFIC OFF.
EVENTS THAT ONLY ONE TIME ALL SEASON SCORED FEWER THAN 35 POINTS IN ONE GAME, BUT FOR HAL LAMB AND THE YELLOW JACKETS.
THEY KNOW THAT TO WIN THIS THING.
THEY'VE GOT TO GET THROUGH BEAUFORT.
WE CAN WATCH FILM TO HER SICK OF WATCHING FILM AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK JESS AND I KNOW EACH OTHER PRETTY GOOD.
AND I TEAMS KNOW EACH OTHER.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE JUST YOU KNOW, WE'D LIKE TO WIN ONE OF THEM.
I TOLD JESSE HAS ENOUGH RINGS, JUST LET US HAVE ONE.
IT'S A PLEASURE TO CALL THIS TO A GAME TODAY.
TIM MCFARLIN COACH GREAT TO BE WITH YOU.
JOHN NELSON WITH YOU AS WELL.
YOU'RE BLESSED TRINITY.
TEAM GOT STEAMROLLED TWICE BY THIS.
BUFORD TEAM.
IS THIS THE BEST BUFORD TEAM EFFORT?
WELL, IF IT'S NOT, I DON'T WANT TO SEE THE ONE THAT IS, BUT WE'RE FOR STATE TITLES.
THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY REALLY GOOD.
I THINK THIS TEAM'S THE BEST OF THE BEST.
THEY'RE BIG, THEY'RE FAST.
THEY PLAY AN AGGRESSIVE STYLE OF FOOTBALL AND MOST OF ALL I THINK THEY VERY WELL COACHED.
THESE COACHES ARE VETERANS AND THEY'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE AND THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN A GAME LIKE THIS OFFENSIVELY.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE LED UP FRONT BY LEFT TACKLE VIDAL.
ALEXANDER AT 66 330 POUNDS, HE HAS COMMITTED TO LSU.
HE WILL LEAD A PUNISHING RUN GAME.
THAT IS IS HIGHLIGHTED BY A COUPLE OF REALLY BIG BACKS BUT THE IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER ABOUT VIEWPORT IS THAT THEY ALSO CAN THROW THE BALL EXCEPTIONALLY.
WELL, THEY'RE AT ABOUT SIXTY FOUR PERCENT ON THEIR COMPLETION ON THE SEASON DEFENSIVELY, THEY'RE LED BY RUN STOPPER.
DYLAN LIE, DYLAN PLAYS LINEBACKER, HE'S 64 ABOUT 240 POUNDS.
HE'S COMMITTED TO ALABAMA.
HE HEADS UP A DEFENSE THAT GIVES UP VERY FEW POINTS.
I THINK THEY'RE GIVING UP LESS THAN SIX POINTS PER GAME THIS SEASON.
AND HERE COME THE YELLOW.
JACKETS DOWN FROM CALHOUN TO THE DOME ONE MORE TIME.
ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID.
NEVER THE BRIDE IS TODAY GOING TO BE THE DAY.
THEY CERTAINLY HOPE SO.
AND TO DO IT, THEY'RE TRYING NOT TO GET INTO THE RANKS WITH ADAIRSVILLE WHO'VE LOST FOUR STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THEIR APPEARANCES.
SO HOW DO YOU DO IT?
WE TALKED TO THE LAMB ON THE FIELD.
THERE ARE LAMBS THAT ARE GOING TO BE INSIDE THE NUMBERS AND OFFENSIVELY.
ONE OF THEM WILL BE AT QUARTERBACK AND YOU KNOW THAT QUARTERBACK IS GOING TO BE THE STRAW THAT STIRS.
THE DRINK AND RIGHT THERE THERE IS THE MAN.
TAYLOR LAMB.
AND YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT A GUY WHO'S REALLY GOING TO HAVE TO CONTROL WHAT'S GOING ON.
IT'S GOING TO BE TAYLOR LAMP ALL DAY LONG AND DON'T BE SURPRISED.
IF BEEN LAMB THE OTHER LAMB ON THE FIELD GETS INTO IT AS WELL.
DEFENSIVELY, LM SAYS IT HAS LINEBACKERS ARE THE CORE OF THAT DEFENSE AND RIGHT THERE HUNTER NIGHT HAS HAD AN INSANE POSTSEASON.
NINE AND A HALF SACKS BOB IN THE FIRST TWO GAMES OF THE POSTSEASON TO GET THEM HERE AND THEY DO NOT WANT TO LOSE ANOTHER ONE TO BEAUFORT.
SO, YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT JACKETS?
HOW THINGS ARE GOING TO GO STEPS TO SUCCESS FOR CALHOUN RIGHT THERE, THEY HAVE TO DICTATE PACE.
THEY HAVE TO DETERMINE WHAT'S GOING ON.
MAKE SURE THAT THEIR SIZE TAKES CARE OF THAT, THEIR SPEED TAKES CARE OF THE SIZE OF BUFORD, RIGHT THERE GETTING TO THE POINT OF ATTACK FIRST AND FORGET THE PAST VERSIONS 1.0 2.0 AND 3.0 DO NOT EXIST.
YOU FOR THEIR PHILOSOPHY, THE ENTIRE TIME HAS BEEN DO WHAT THEY DO.
THAT MEANS RUN THE BALL AND STOP THE RUN WHEN THE CHESS MATCH BECAUSE FAMILIARITY WE ALL KNOW WHAT THAT BREEDS AND THEY GOT PLENTY OF THAT HERE EXCEPT FOR THE CONTEMPT PART.
FORGET FIVE, REMEMBER BEEN A LOT OF TALK ALL WEEK LONG.
THOSE CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE THERE.
THIS ONE DOES NOT EXIST YET.
SO THE STAGE IS SET, THIS IS JUST SUBSIDY THE HEAD COACH AT BUFORD.
HE HAS BEEN A PART OF SEVEN CHAMPIONSHIP BALL CLUBS THREE AS A DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR.
AND OF COURSE, THE LAST FOUR IS A HEAD COACH ON THE PRECIPICE OF GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY TODAY.
IF JESS AND THE WOLVES WHEN IT THAT'LL BE FIVE IN A ROW, THAT'S NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE.
HAL LAMB, AND MAYBE THE STARS ARE ALIGNED TODAY.
BACK IN 1981, HE PLAYED FOR HIS DAD, HIS BROTHER WAS ON THE TEAM, THEY WON A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP AT COMMERCE BACK.
1981, HE WILL BE COACHING HIS SON AND HIS NEPHEW TODAY THAT WE TALKED ABOUT WITH JON A MOMENT AGO AND MAYBE TODAY WILL BE THE DAY, THE CALHOUN FINALLY KNOCKS OFF THE JUGGERNAUT THAT IS BUFORD THE WOLVES WON THE TOSS AND THEY HAVE DEFERRED THEIR CHOICE TO THE SECOND HALF.
SO DAVID PATRON, IT IS READY TO KICK IT AWAY.
AND GENTLEMEN, WE ARE READY FOR THE START OF WHAT SHOULD BE ONE.
WHALE OF A GAME.
IT OUGHT TO BE A GREAT ONE, THAT'S FOR SURE.
YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE SAY, YOU HAVE TO RUN THE BALL IN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TO WIN A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, AND I'M NOT SO SURE THAT'S THE CASE TONIGHT.
THE CALHOUN CURTIS EITHER RETURN UP TO THE 18 YARD LINE.
THE QUARTERBACK OF THE YELLOW JACKETS IS THE COACHES NEPHEW TAYLOR LAMB AND HE HAS HAD A REMARKABLE SEASON JOHN, IT'S A SPREAD OFFENSE, THEY LIKE TO SPREAD THE FIELD, THROW THE BALL ALL OVER THE BALLPARK AND TAYLOR LAMB OF THE BEST OF THE STATE.
EVERYONE IS SAYING THAT THIS MIGHT BE THAT OFFENSE, THAT IS GOING TO GIVE BUFORD'S DEFENSE THE HARDEST TIME.
OVER THE NEXT 48 MINUTES, WE TALKED ABOUT PACE AND TEMPO, AND CONTROL CALHOUN'S GOING TO HAVE TO ASSERT IT EARLY.
FIRST AT 10:00 AND PRESSURE IMMEDIATELY IN AN INCOMPLETE PASS OUT OF THE 28 YARD LINE AND WE GET AN INDICATION RIGHT AWAY.
THAT BUFORD IS READY TO COME DEFENSIVELY.
LET'S CHECK OUT THE STARTING LINEUP FOR THE CALHOUN YELLOW, JACKETS AND OFFENSIVELY.
TODAY UP FRONT.
THEY WILL GO WITH READ.
ALAN A MAN WHO PLAYS BOTH WAYS, CHAZ HORTON, TYLER KING, THOMAS HAYNES, AND RUBEN SANCHEZ.
THAT'S THE FRONT FIVE.
AND THEY'LL BE ASKED TO BLOCK VERY BIG AND TALENTED.
BUFORD FRONT.
LAMB THROWS NEAR SIDE COMPLETE.
THIS IS HIS COUSIN BEN WHO MAKES THE CATCH AND TAKES IT TO THE 21 YARD LINE.
THE REST OF THE WOLVES DEFENSIVELY.
JUST AN OUTSTANDING LINEBACKING CORPS, LET BY DYLAN LEE, THE SENIOR ANDRE JOHNSON AND NATHAN STOP AT A SECONDARY THAT HAS RACKED UP A LOT OF INTERCEPTIONS AND PASS BREAKUPS OVER THE CAMPAIGN.
AND YOU SEE C.J.
MORE, HE HAS BROKEN UP 13 PASSES ONE OF HE'S OF THE SECONDARY, HE'LL BE CALLED ON TODAY AGAINST THIS PASS HAPPY CALHOUN ATTACK.
AND A SACK BACK TO THE 14.
THAT TIME COMING FROM THE INSIDE WAS ANDRE JOHNSON AND YOU'LL SEE IT HERE.
BOB, IT'S OBVIOUS THAT BUFORD HAS DECIDED THEY GOT TO PUT PRESSURE ON ON THE QUARTERBACK IN ORDER TO MAKE HIM THROW THE BALL QUICKLY, AND IF THEY CAN'T GET THE RECEIVERS TO OPEN UP EARLY, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME.
MOVING THE BALL ON BEAUFORT NATHAN, STOP CAME UP ON FIRST DOWN AND THEN YOU HAVE ANDRE JOHNSON COMING UP ON THIS PARTICULAR PLAY TO CREATE A FOURTH AND 14, NOT THE RESULT THAT CALHOUN WANTED ON THEIR FIRST SET OF DOWNS.
SO BACKPEDALING TO HIS OWN GOAL LINE IS ZANE ROADS, THE CALHOUN PUTTER.
HE'S AVERAGED 34 YARDS OF PUNT, BEAUFORT, IS GOING TO GET OUTSTANDING FIELD POSITION.
NOW A PENALTY FLAG.
AS IT APPEARS THE PLAY CLOCK HAS RUN OUT.
JAMES ARNOLD IS OUR REFEREE, THE OTTAWA VALLEY OFFICIATING ASSOCIATION.
PROVIDING THE GAME OFFICIALS TODAY FROM CARTERSVILLE.
NOW, FROM HIS END ZONE, HARRIS, HEAD TO RETURN IT FOR BUFORD.
HE'S ON HIS OWN 45.
HEAD WILL MAKE THE KAABA.
GOES TO CALHOUN.
NO, JOHN YOU MENTIONED EARLIER THAT TURNOVERS ARE GOING TO BE A KEY AND YOU CAN'T DO THAT AND IN SOME FORGOTTEN SURVIVE, A GAME LIKE THIS AND THERE'S THE FIRST ONE OF THE NIGHT.
I THINK WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS A CASE OF NERVES, ON THE PART OF BOTH TEAMS, WE HAVE A DROPPED PASS AND THAT WE HAVE A FUMBLED PUNT.
YOU SEE, PARIS HAD WITH THE JUNGLE RIGHT THERE.
REMEMBER THE MUFF RULE, YOU CANNOT ADVANCE THE MUFF FROM THE SPOT OF THE FOUL.
SO THEY'RE GOING TO MARKET FROM RIGHT THERE AT THE 43 AND THAT'S WHERE CALHOUN GETS A SECOND LIFE.
1ST AND 10 FROM THE 43 AND THE TOSS GETS THE BALL OVER THE MIDFIELD, STRIPE DOWN TO THE BUFORD 47 YARD LINE.
THIS WAS AN INFLUENCE PLAY.
YOU'LL NOTICE THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE LINE FOR CALHOUN PULLING IN THE DEFENSIVE END, SHUTTING DOWN TO BUFORD, YOU KNOW, VIRTUALLY CALHOUN DIDN'T HAVE TO BLOCK THE END OR THE EDGE TO GET AROUND THE END THERE.
AND IT WAS A GOOD PLAY.
WELL, DESIGN, SECOND OF ALL ON AFTER THE 9 YARD PICKUP BY DARIUS WASHINGTON STARTED.
THE OUTSIDE IS COMPLETE AND OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 44 YARD LINE, CHASE RYERSON, MAKING THE GRAND PRIX CALHOUN.
SO, THIS WAS A PROBLEM FOR BUFORD LAST WEEK IN THE FIRST HALF DOWN AT CARVER YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT LAST WEEK, TRAILING AT CARVER COLUMBUS LAST WEEK, THE FIRST TIME IN A YEAR AND A HALF THAT BUFORD HAD TO COME FROM BEHIND TOSS.
BUFORD COVERS IT QUICKLY DOWN TO THE 43 YARD LINE, AS WASHINGTON MAKES THE CARRY, BUT A TERRIFIC BALL CARRY.
HE IS HE'S NOT FEATURED, OF COURSE, IN THIS ATTACK.
BUT WHEN HE IS ASKED TO CARRY IT, 155, RUSSIA'S THIS YEAR AT CLOSE TO 1,000 YARDS THE SAME TIME, HE'S RECOVERING FROM AN ANKLE INJURY.
SO HE'S GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER TO 100%.
WE'LL SEE, JUST HOW CLOSE HE IS TODAY, EVEN IF HE'S NOT 100%, HE'S GOING TO PLAY IT.
SECOND ATTEMPT.
LAMP.
HE'S GOT PLENTY OF ROOM.
FIRST DOWN CALHOUN AUTHORITY.
BOB THIS ONE OF THE DISADVANTAGES TO MAN COVERAGE, YOU'LL NOTICE HERE, THE CORNERBACK IS TRAILING THE RECEIVER.
AND ONCE AGAIN, CALHOUN'S ABLE TO GET THE EDGE ON, BUFORD THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SHORE THAT UP TO KEEP CALHOUN FROM GAINING SIGNIFICANT YARDS ON TONIGHT.
WATCH THE EDGE, CJ MORE 24 FOR BUFORD, RIGHT THERE GETTING LOST IN TRAFFIC WITH THE RECEIVER ON THE EDGE.
CLAY, JOHNSON FOR CALHOUN LAMPROS.
IT'S COMPLETE, THE JOSH BARN.
AND CALHOUN AFTER PICKING UP THE FUMBLE, I DID USE TO DRIVE IT DOWN TO THE BUFORD, 23 YARD LINE.
SECOND, AND THREE.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE THAT FUMBLE MAY BE IN THIS FIRST QUARTER?
WASHINGTON NOWHERE TO GO UP LIKE THIS, JUST AN ATTEMPT TO KEEP BUFORD HONEST, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT FROM TIME, TO TIME TO SLOW DOWN.
THE BLITZ, CALHOUN IS OBVIOUSLY THROWING THE BALL QUICK.
WE'RE ALL SURPRISED, IF YOU FORCE NOT PLAYING A LITTLE TIGHTER COVERAGE ON THE OUTSIDE TO TAKE AWAY THE SHORT THROWS, HERE'S WASHINGTON'S NUMBERS.
HE IS A SENIOR 14 RUSHING TOUCHDOWNS TO HIS CREDIT AND THREE IN THE AIR.
THIRD DOWN NOW AND FOUR FROM THE BUFORD 23.
YOU'LL NOTICE THAT BUFORD HAS DILLON LIE OUTSIDE LINED UP ON THE NUMBER TWO RECEIVER FOR CALHOUN.
THAT'S A MISMATCH PRESSURE FROM THE CORNER.
THE THROW IS INCOMPLETE TIPPED AT THE LINE AND IT'S GOING TO BE A FOURTH DOWN.
BUT HERE IS A SITUATION.
WELL, LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE TIP PASS FIRST.
AGAIN HAVE GOOD PRESSURE BY BUFORD TO HAVE SOMEBODY COME AND CLEAN UNBLOCKED, THE CALHOUN'S LUCKY THAT ONE DIDN'T GET PICKED.
BUT WHAT AN ADVANTAGE GENTLEMAN FOR CALHOUN AND THE TOE OF ADAM GRIFFITH, A 41-YARD ATTEMPT THAT'S ABOUT NORMAL FOR A DEMERIT.
LOOK AT THAT LEG, CLAUDIA DISTANCE.
HEY DROPS IT RIGHT?
IN THE KNOW IT'S WIDE.
WHITE.
JUST WENT OFF TO THE RIGHT PLENTY OF DISTANCE THOUGH AND PLENTY OF LEG AND THAT'S SOMETHING.
I THINK WE'LL SEE THE ENTIRE GAME AND THEY CAN PENETRATE THAT 30-YARD LINE.
I WOULD THINK CALHOUN IS GOING TO HAVE A BIG, BIG ADVANTAGE OF THE TOE OF GRIFFITH, BUT HE COMES UP SHORT ON HIS FIRST ATTEMPT.
HE'S HAD A LOT OF EXPERIENCE HERE.
KICKING IN THE DOME.
IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW HE RESPONDS IN HIS SENIOR SEASON.
NOW BUFORD COMING OUT ON OFFENSE AND SAM PLAY AS THEIR, SENIOR QUARTERBACK, SPRINT'S THROWS, DUMPS IT.
COMPLETE THE NATHAN STOMP TIPTOES AT SIDELINE AND WRESTLED DOWN.
AS HE GETS TO ABOUT THE 28 YARD LINE.
THIS IS WHERE BUFORD HAS SUCH AN ADVANTAGE THIS HUMONGOUS OFFENSIVE LINE.
WE DON'T HAVE THEIR HEIGHTS AND WEIGHTS ON THERE BUT UPFRONT ALEXANDER GOES AT A 334 HILL TO 75 BIRDS AT 2:28.
SEE THEM AT 188 CARD.
ELO IT 288 IT IS AMAZING.
HOW BIG THEY ARE MAKEUP.
FALCONS BLUSH CHECK OUT THERE RUNNING BACKS THE HOPKINS JUST AS BIG AS ALIGNMENT.
IT'S A GREAT MOVE.
FROST OF THE NEAR SIDE.
24 IS CJ MORE AND HUMOR GETS A FIRST DOWN AT THE 35.
WATCH IT WATCH RIGHT THERE, MISS TACKLED, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH A LOT OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TODAY.
THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WRAP UP AS SOON AS THEY GET TO THE FOOTBALL.
KRISTEN HONEYCUTT IS THE OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR FOR BUFORD, AND I THINK HE'S WELL AWARE THAT YOU'LL HAVE NERVES EARLY IN THE GAME.
LIKE I SAID, WE'VE SEEN A DROP BALL AND A DROP PUNT.
THERE'S NOTHING BETTER TO CALM THE NERVES IN A GOOD RUN GAME AND BUFORD CAN DO THAT WITH THE BEST OF THEM.
THEY AVERAGED EIGHT YARDS PER RUSH.
THE TOSS THE JOHNSON AND YARDS AFTER THE INITIAL HIT, AND HE PUNISHES CALHOUN TO THE 44-YARD LINE.
GABE FREEMAN, STOOD HIM UP NUMBER 51, BUT HE BOUNCED OFF OF IT, WE'LL SEE IT RIGHT HERE.
MOVING TO YOUR LEFT, THERE'S THE HANDOFF AND THE BOUNCE RIGHT THERE.
KEPT EVERYTHING, MOVING DODGED ATTACK ON.
IT TOOK THREE JACKETS TO BRING HIM DOWN.
YEAH, THAT THAT'S THE EFFECTS OF A RUNNING BACK THAT WEIGHS 230 POUNDS.
HE'S A BIG GUY KEEPS HIS FEET.
MOVING HAS A LOW CENTER OF GRAVITY.
YOU KNOW, THEY'VE GOT A COUPLE OF GUYS LIKE THAT, IT'S REALLY HARD TO DEAL WITH IT.
WEARS IT WEARS YOU DOWN AS A DEFENSE OVER THE SECOND DOWN AND ONE.
AND THE CLOCK RUNS OUT ON BUFORD FOR PENALTY FOR THE SNAP.
TIME OUT.
BUFORD THEIR FIRST CHARGE TIME HOW THE HAT AND WILL TAKE THE TIME OUT WITH THEM SIX.
THOSE SEVEN REMAINING IN THE OPENING QUARTER HERE AT THE GEORGIA DOME, THE 2A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, BUFORD AND CALHOUN THOSE SCOOTER.
THE FOOTBALL HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS ON GPB ARE MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY THE GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION WHICH THANKS GEORGIA FARM BUREAU FOR THEIR SUPPORT THROUGH AS MANY PROGRAMS.
GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION IS TRAINING, TOMORROW'S LEADERS AT GEORGIA FARM BUREAU.
WE ALSO PROMOTE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FARM BUREAU SERVES ITS MEMBERS THROUGH A HOST OF SERVICES FROM INSURANCE TO HEALTHCARE TO POPULAR DISCOUNT PROGRAM DELIVERED THROUGH YOUR LOCAL FARM BUREAU OFFICE.
FARM BUREAU BENEFITING YOUR COMMUNITY AND HELPING YOU IS WHAT WE DO BEST.
YOU FORGOT THE TIMEOUT BEFORE THE PENALTY FLAG AND WE'D LIKE TO WELCOME IN NICKI NOTO.
ONE OF OUR TO SIDELINE REPORTERS NIKKI.
HEY.
ONE OF 32 SENIORS, BUFORD TEAM, I ASK THEM IF THEY HAVE APPROACHED THEY HAVE APPROACHED THIS CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, ANY DIFFERENTLY FROM THE PAST GUYS.
HE SMILED AT ME, HE SHRUGGED, HE GOES.
NOPE, THIS IS JUST ANOTHER FOOTBALL GAME AND WE'RE READY TO PLAY, BUFORD FOOTBALL.
AND I REMEMBER LAST YEAR, THESE GUYS TELLING ME THAT THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS WAS WAFFLE HOUSE.
YOU BETTER BELIEVE THE BIG GREEN WIN EIGHT IT TODAY.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, LET'S SEE IF IT MAKES US HAPPY WITH IT BACK TO ALL THE BOOTH.
SECOND ONE.
FOR BEAUFORT.
SOLID RUN INTO CALHOUN TERRITORY, DOWN TO THE 44, YARD LINE, DONTRE BE HAS WILSON, A 511.
200 POUND, JUNIOR WAS THE BALL CARRIER, AND THEY AREN'T FOOLING ANYBODY RIGHT NOW.
YET BLAKE ADAMS SHORT, RIGHT BEHIND LIFEGUARD, LEFT TACKLE, RIGHT BEHIND ALL THAT BIG BEEF ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN, DON TRAVIA'S WILSON, KEEP EVERYTHING, MOVING, AND MOVE THE STICKS.
FOR ANOTHER FIRST DOWN, I DON'T HAD ONLY EIGHT POINT SEVEN YARDS PER CARRY.
YEAH, ONLY.
FIRST AND TEN, YOU'LL NOTICE BUFORD IS CHECKING AT THE LINE.
THAT'S ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES TO HAVING A TOO TIGHT FORMATION THAT BALANCES UP TO DEFENSE AND ALLOWS YOU TO CHOOSE YOUR SIDE JOHNSON.
ANOTHER BUKER PURSE DOWN, THEY CONTINUE TO EAT UP THE YARDAGE ON THE GROUND, DOWN TO THE 32 YARD LINE, A 13-YARD GAIN.
WELL, YOU'LL NOTICE LIKE WE SAID THE TWO TIGHT END SET.
THEY'RE PROBABLY DIRECTING THE PLAY AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.
CALHOUN IS HAVING A PROBLEM WITH TACKLES AND THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THAT IF YOU'RE GOING TO STAY IN THE GAME BUFORD'S DOING EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANTED TO DO.
AT THIS POINT, RUNNING THE FOOTBALL AND KEEPING YOU KNOW, CALHOUN'S POTENT OFFENSE OFF THE FOOTBALL FIELD, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT HUNTER NIGHT AND ALEX KIRBY.
BOTH OF THOSE LINEBACKERS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN THE OPEN MISSING, TACKLES ON THAT 13-YARD GAIN.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU 42, YOU NEED TO PROBABLY TAKE A LOOK AT THE STAT.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY KEEPS IT, BUT IT'S YARDS AFTER CONTACT, YOU KNOW, AND THESE BACKS GET SO MANY AFTER THE INITIAL CONTACT.
HEY, IT'S TOM TO THE 30-YARD LINE.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE CALHOUN YELLOWJACKET DEFENSE UP FRONT, THEY PLAY THREE DOWN LINEMEN WITH READ ALAN, TONY HERNANDEZ HUNTER, PAGEANT IN THE LINEBACKING CORPS WITH FIVE ACROSS WITH BRICKS, THE GUYS YOU MENTIONED IN NIGHT CURBING, FREEMAN, GRANT FULLER'S, HAD A GREAT SEASON ANTHONY DONNELL, ANTHONY AND HEATH EVERETT ALONG WITH CLAY JOHNSON, IN THE SECONDARY.
SUCK IT DOWN.
AND AGAIN, JOHNSON TAKES IT DOWN TO THE 26.
BOBBY MENTIONED, READ ALAN AND HE'S ONE OF THEIR PREMIER PLAYERS ON DEFENSE.
HE'S COMMITTED TO THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY AND OBVIOUSLY A GOOD STUDENT ASIDE FROM BEING A GREAT FOOTBALL PLAYER.
I'LL SLEEP BETTER AT NIGHT, KNOWING HE'S WITH THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY, SERVING OUR COUNTRY.
BIG, THIRD AND FOUR HERE.
CALHOUN STICK SOME BLOOD.
BRANDT, WHO AVERAGES?
18 YARDS, A CARRY SAW NOTHING BUT LINEBACKER ALEX KIRBY.
STRENGTH AGAINST STRENGTH RIGHT HERE, THEY'VE HAD EIGHT IN THE BOX CALHOUN.
YOU SEE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN RIGHT?
UP THE MIDDLE MET BY ONE MET BY 2 AND HEADING BACKWARDS.
BIG STOP RIGHT THERE FOR THE YELLOWJACKETS EARLY ON.
WELL, TONY HERNANDEZ SWAM THE CENTER, HE DIDN'T GET TOUCHED.
HE WAS EXTREMELY QUICK OFF THE BALL AND THAT BLEW UP THE PLAY WILL SEE HERE.
IF YOU FIRTS, KICKER, HAS A CASE OF NERVES AS THE CALHOUN A FEW MINUTES AGO, DAVID PATRONI WITH A 44 YARD, ATTEMPT, OFFICIALLY THIS ONE DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH.
SO, NEITHER TEAM CAN SCRATCH ON A FIELD GOAL, ATTEMPT DAVID.
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WELL, I TALKED TO CALHOUN.
HEAD COACH, HAL LAMB JUST A FEW DAYS AGO, ASKED HIM IF HE HAD NIGHTMARES ABOUT SEEING GREEN.
HIS ANSWER WAS AN EMPHATIC.
YES, I TALK TO HIM AGAIN BEFORE THE GAME.
TODAY, SAID COACH, DID YOU HAVE THE SAME NIGHTMARE LAST NIGHT AND HE SAID, ABSOLUTELY AND WHY WOULDN'T HE, HIS TEAM HAS BEEN 14 AND 0 FOR THE LAST FOUR SEASONS AND OBVIOUSLY THEY'VE LOST A CALHOUN IN THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
THE LAST THREE KIND OF MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT'S THE DREAM GOING TO BE LIKE TONIGHT IF HIS TEAM WINS GUYS?
WELL LINDSAY, WE HAVE SEEN A TREMENDOUS RANGE OF EMOTIONS ALREADY.
THIS OPENING QUARTER, THREE MINUTES TO GO.
NO SCORE AND TAYLOR LAB.
JUST MISSED HIS MAN, CHASE RIAS'S.
NOW THE THROW COMES BACK TO THE METAL.
IT'S TIPTON INCOMPLETE.
LAMB IS NOW 347, 414 YARDS, AND 23 IS PARIS HAD THE FREE SAFETY.
NATHAN STOP IN ON PRESSURE QUARRY, ROGERS, AND ON PRESSURE.
SO THAT PRESSURE WORD THAT WE TALKED ABOUT EARLY ON.
THEY ARE SENDING IT FROM EVERY ANGLE POSSIBLE WITH EVERY PERSON POSSIBLE IN THAT BUFORD SIDE.
CALHOUN'S, TRYING TO TAKE A COUPLE OF SHOTS, DOWNFIELD.
I THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA.
IT SHOULD OPEN UP, OPEN UP THE UNDERNEATH THROWS IN A FEW MINUTES, AND THERE'S SOME INTERESTING MATCHUPS OUT THERE.
YOU'LL NOTICE YOU'LL SEE DYLAN OUT OF THE BOX.
BOTH LINEBACKERS ARE HAVING TO GET OUT AND GO INTO COVERAGE.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT CALHOUN WILL BE LOOKING FOR.
INCOMPLETE AGAIN, THE INTENDED FOR RYERSON, YOU TALKED ABOUT DYLAN LEE WAS LINED UP ON THE OUTSIDE RECEIVER BUT THEN OF COURSE HE COMES IN ON THE BLITZ ONCE THE TRYING TO CONFUSE PACKAGES RIGHT NOW, IS WHAT BUFORD'S DOING DEFENSIVELY.
LET'S CHECK A LOOK AT IT ONE MORE TIME.
DYLAN, COMING IN, DILLON LIE, RIGHT THERE OFF, THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE FORCES, THE EARLY THROW AND THE INCOMPLETION FOR FOURTH DOWN.
IT DOES BUFORD'S DOING A NICE JOB OF MIXING UP COVERAGES AND BRING A DYLAN IS A GREAT IDEA.
THE PROBLEM IS, WHEN YOU BRING THAT LINEBACKER.
LEAVE YOU YOU KNOW, A ONE-ON-ONE SITUATION, DOWNFIELD.
AND SO FAR, CALHOUN HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO CAPITALIZE ON THAT.
RYAN DILLARD IS THE RETURN, MAN.
HE'S HIT PENALTY FLAG.
GOT THEIR LITTLE TOO SOON.
AND THE PEDAL, THEY WILL GO AGAINST THE YELLOW JACKETS.
AND ONCE THE DISCUSSION, DO YOU RE KICK OR TAKE THE YARDS, HE JUST GETS HERE TOO SOON, HE'S TRYING TO MAKE A BIG PLAY AND HE'S READING THE HANDS OF THE RECEIVER AND AT THAT POINT IN TIME HE YOU KNOW, HE WAS THERE BEFORE THE BALL ON THE KICKING TEAM THAT PENALTY IS DECLINED.
FIRST DOWN ADAM RUTLEDGE WAS THE GUILTY PARTY.
THE BUFORD WOLVES HAVE WON FOUR STRAIGHT GOING FOR A RECORD-SETTING FIFTH IN THEIR FINAL GAME INTO A THEY MOVED TO 3A NEXT SEASON.
SCORELESS FIRST QUARTER, WHICH 239 REMAIN.
FROM THEIR OWN 46.
FIRST INTENT.
BIG HOLE AND A GREAT RUN ON FIRST DOWN BUT TAKES IT INTO CALHOUN TERRITORY AT THE 41-YARD.
LINE TRAVIA'S WILSON PICKS UP 15 BEFORE IT'S GONNA W AT THE POINT OF ATTACK THEY'LL GET SEVERAL GUYS INTO THE BLOCKING PATTERN TO ASSIST WITH THE OFFENSIVE LINEMEN BUT THERE AGAIN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT YARDS AFTER CONTACT AND BUFORD YOU KNOW BUFORD'S BACKS ARE SO HARD TO BRING DOWN ONCE THEY GET ROLLING.
CALHOUN'S GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THEM AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.
YOU KNOW, ONCE THEY GET TO THAT SECOND LEVEL, THEY'RE HARD TO DEAL WITH FIRST ATTEMPT FOR BUFORD TO 14 AND COUNTING HERE.
THE FIRST BUT TOSS COMES TO MORE BALLS ON THE GROUND AND A PENALTY FLAG AS WELL.
I THINK YOU GOT BACK ON IT.
YOU PUT HANGS ON AT THE 39-YARD LINE.
LET'S CHECK THE PENALTY JAMES ARNOLD IS OUR REFEREE.
AFTER THE PLAY PERSONAL FOUL, THE DEFENSE 15 YARD PENALTY, FIRST DOWN, THAT COULD BE A BACKBREAKER ALL THE WAY TO THE 24 YARD LINE.
NOW, LAMB IS NOT HAPPEN.
IT MUST HAVE BEEN A LATE HIT.
IT'S HARD TO REALLY SAY WITHOUT THE OFFICIAL TELLING THE SPIN SPIN.
YEAH, RIGHT THERE.
AND HE LIVED WITH HIS HELMET TO CAN'T DO THAT.
THAT IS A COSTLY 15 IN ANY BOOK BUT EVEN MORE.
SO AGAINST BEAUFORT.
IF THE 10 FROM THE 24-YARD LINE, POWERING IT TO THE 17 GOES ANDRE JOHNSON.
IT'S NOT LIKE THESE TWO TEAMS.
DON'T KNOW EACH OTHER.
NO, NOT AT ALL.
IT'S THAT'S THE BIGGEST QUESTION THAT BOTH OF THESE TEAMS HAVE HOW MUCH FROM THE BACK OF THE PLAYBOOK OR HOW MUCH NEW STUFF, DO YOU BRING IN A GAME LIKE THIS?
OR IS IT JUST A SITUATION OF STRENGTH AGAINST STRENGTH?
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO?
I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO IS JUST THROW IT ALL OUT THERE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENED.
THEY KNOW EACH OTHER WELL, BUT AS WE SAID EARLIER, ONE OF THE REASONS OF BEAUFORT A LINEUP IN A TOO TIGHT SET US TO EVEN UP THE DEFENSE.
AND THEN THEY PUT IT INTO THE HANDS OF SAM PLAY.
THE QUARTERBACK CAN MAKE MAKE CALLS AND DIRECT THE PLAY AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE, SAM.
I DO CENTER.
THE GIVE IS TO WILSON.
GOOD PURSUIT, ANGLES THAT TIME FOR CALHOUN.
YOU SEE THE HOLE RIGHT HERE, RIGHT AT RIGHT GUARD.
RIGHT TACKLE.
BUT WILSON BOUNCES, IT OUTSIDE THINKS HE SEES SOMETHING RIGHT THERE, BUT HE GETS WRAPPED UP BY ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE GUYS BEFORE HE'S THROUGH LINEBACKER.
ALEX KIRBY WAS THE FIRST TO GET THERE.
HE LET CALHOUN AND TACKLES THIS SEASON WITH 87.
30 SECONDS TO GO IN THE FIRST QUARTER.
NOTHING FOR THE FULL-BACKS TALL.
HE WAS RULED DOWN AT THE 16.
THEY NEEDED TO GET TO THE 14 FOR A FIRST DOWN.
ONCE AGAIN, WE SAID SEE PENETRATION BY THE NOSE GUARD, TONY HERNANDEZ, MAKING THE PLAY, YOU CAN'T CONTROL THE KNOWS, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A HARD TIME PULLING THE GUARDS AND THEY ARE AGAIN.
BEAUTIFUL IS TRYING TO RUN A TRAP AND THEY JUST DIDN'T DO IT.
THAT IS THE END OF THE QUARTER.
THE FIRST 12 MINUTES IN THE BOOKS WITH OUR STORE CALHOUN.
NOTHING AND BUFORD NOTHING.
WE'LL BE BACK RIGHT AFTER THIS.
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WE BEGIN THE SECOND QUARTER WITH A BUFORD FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT TO 33 YARDS BY DAVID PATRONI.
HE MISSED A 44-YARD, HER, IN THE FIRST QUARTER.
THIS TO GIVE THE SCOREBOARD COMPANY.
NOTHING, NOTHING HERE IN THE SECOND AT THE DOME OF THE 2A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
PLENTY OF LEG.
AND IT'S GOOD.
SO, BUFORD STRIKES FIRST ON A 33 YARDER BY DAVID PATRONI, THAT IS HIS THIRD FIELD GOAL OF THE SEASON.
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WE'VE HAD OX CHIMING IN WITH SOLDIERS, WATCHING FROM AFGHANISTAN.
EVEN IT'S BEEN A GREAT EXPERIENCE.
SIX PLAY DRIVE FOR BEAUFORT THAT ENDS IN THE FIELD.
GOAL BY PATRONI.
30 YARDS TOTAL IT TOOK 244 OFF THE CLOCK.
NOW 11:55 TO GO FIRST HALF AND BUFORD LEADING IT 3 NOTHING.
THIS WILL BE TAKEN BY DAYA'S CURTIS.
HE KEEPS GRINDING GREAT RETURN, HE STEPPED OUT OF BOUNDS AND A PENALTY FLAG.
COMES HAD THIS LOOKS TO GO AGAINST BUFORD BELIEVE.
WE'RE GOING TO SEE A LATE HIT ON BUFORD OUT OF BOUNDS.
YOU GUYS WERE TALKING ABOUT THE GAME AND THE FLOW OF THE GAME AND I'M SURE JESSE'S YOU KNOW WAS HAPPY TO TAKE THE THREE POINTS BUT YOU YOU'VE GOT TO GET SEVEN CALHOUN, YOU KNOW THEIR OFFENSE, THEY CAN SCORE AT ANY TIME ON ONE PLAY AND AND AT SOME POINT IN TIME, DO YOU THINK'S GOING TO HAVE TO GET IT IN THE END ZONE?
AFTER THE PLAY PERSONAL FOUL ON THE KICKING TEAM, 15-YARD PENALTY, FIRST DOWN, ALRIGHT LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS HERE YOU SEE THE RETURN CONTACT AND OUT OF BOUNDS ON THE WHITE STRIPE, RIGHT?
AND THAT RIGHT THERE.
YEAH, THEY TOOK HIM TO THE GROUND AFTER THE BALL WAS DEAD.
SO THAT MOVES IT OUT TO THE 46 FOR CALHOUN.
TAYLOR LAMB WILL GO TO THE ARE BUYERS AND IT'S COMPLETE TO THE 40-YARD LINE, SOMEBODY LOST A SHOE, TERRIFIC CATCH, MIKE LEIGH JOHNSON.
IT WAS CLAY WHO HAS TO GO IN FOR REPAIRS?
GREAT JOB BY CLAY, BUT IT WAS AN EVEN BETTER JOB BY THE OFFENSIVE LINE.
LOOK AT THE TIME THAT LAMB HAS TO THROW THE FOOTBALL, YOU KNOW, IF HE GETS THAT KIND OF TIME TONIGHT, THEY'LL BE IN GREAT SHAPE.
BUFORD DECIDED NOT TO COME WITH THE BLITZ, AND IT MAY HAVE COST THEM THEIR LAMB THROWS COMPLETE RYERSON SPINS AWAY.
AND THERE'S SOME YARDS AFTER CONTACT FOR CALHOUN FIRST DOWN AT THE 2812 YARD GAME.
THAT WAS, THIS IS A HOT ROUTE.
THIS IS, THIS IS A READ AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE WHEN THE QUARTERBACK SEES THE BLITZ.
THE RECEIVER JUST, YOU KNOW, RUNS A HITCH.
WE'RE OUT THERE AT ABOUT 4 YARDS AND THEY TAKE WHAT THEY GIVE THEM.
BASICALLY, THE RECEIVER SAW THE BLITZ COMING FROM HIS SIDE.
HE RAN THE SHORT ROUTE IN THE BALL WAS THERE.
AND THEY WERE ABLE TO GET SOME GOOD YARDAGE FROM IT.
NATHAN STOP WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD OVER PURSUED WAS GETTING TO THE POINT OF ATTACK A LITTLE TOO FAST.
AND THAT GAVE RYERSON THE CHANCE TO SPIN OUT AND KEEP GOING.
GOOD PICKUP OF THE BLITZ, THE THROWS COMPLETE DOWN TO THE 20-YARD LINE ANOTHER GRABBED BY RYERSON AND TAYLOR LANDS GETTING INTO A PRETTY GOOD GROOVE.
HE IS.
AND AGAIN, YOU SEE A GREAT PICKUP BY THE RUNNING BACK HERE, THE BLITZ COMING FROM THE LEFT OF TAYLOR LAMB RUNNING BACK PICKS, IT UP GIVES TAYLOR PLENTY OF TIME TO DELIVER THE BALL AGAIN, THEY'RE RUNNING SHORT ROUTES, MOST OF THEM INSIDE 78 YARDS.
YOU SEE WHO PICKED THAT UP.
IT WAS ALEX URBANO, ONLY A SOPHOMORE.
HIS OLDER BROTHER, ADAM HAS BEEN IN THIS SITUATION BEFORE WITH CALHOUN INGANE, 15S SOPHOMORE, MAKING A BIG PLAY EARLY ON.
LAMB PROS, IT'S COMPLETE DOWN TO THE 17 YARD LINE, TOM, CLAY, JOHNSON WITH THE GRAB FOR THE YELLOWJACKETS.
THIS IS A SCREEN OUT IN THE FLATS.
THE LYMAN BLOCK FOR TWO COUNTS AND THEY RELEASE OVER THE TOP AND TRY TO PICK THEM OFF.
BUFORD PLAYED IT VERY WELL.
BY THE WAY, GETTING UNDERNEATH THAT.
THIS IS ANOTHER SCORING OPPORTUNITY.
CALHOUN MISSED ONE EARLY IN THE GAME AND I KNOW, YOU KNOW, COACH LAMAR UNDERSTAND, YOU DON'T GET THE BALL, YOU KNOW, INSIDE BUFORD TERRITORY VERY OFTEN WHEN YOU DO.
YOU'VE GOT TO GET POINTS OUT OF IT FIRST AND TEN LAMB ROLLS LEFT FIRE.
SO THE END ZONE AND IT'S INCOMPLETE OVERSHOOTS.
JOSH BARNES IT WILL BE SECOND AND TEN.
WE WERE WONDERING IF DILLON LEE COULD RUN IN COVERAGE WITH THE RECEIVERS.
I THINK HE JUST GAVE US THE ANSWER, IT'S AN IMPRESSIVE THING.
WHEN THE GUY THAT'S 64, 240 CAN RUN WITH A RECEIVER ON A ROUTE AND DYLAN HAD THAT COVERED UP.
AND YOU TALKED ABOUT IT EARLY ON IN THIS CONTEST THAT CALHOUN'S GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE THEIR SHOTS DOWNFIELD AND TRY TO GET THE THE DEFENSE MORE SPREAD OUT.
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THEY'RE PUTTING 67 IN THE BOX AND SENDING A BUNCH OF BLITZES YOU CAN GET THEM AWAY FROM THE BOX AND THAT MORE GUYS OUT AND COVERAGE ADVANTAGE TO YOU.
YOU AND BUFORD'S RUNNING A MAN UNDER 2 D COVERAGE RIGHT NOW, THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELDS, PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, CALHOUN'S BEST OPPORTUNITY UNDER PRESSURE HAS TO RUN 2015, HEADS TO THE SIDELINE AND OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 12-YARD LINE, AN EFFECTIVE RUDDER WHEN THEY DID.
WELL, THERE'S JUST NO DEFENSE FOR A QUARTERBACK THAT FEELS PRESSURE AND CAN SEE THE FIELD LIKE THIS AT ITS THAT'S A PLAYMAKER, IT'S JUST A GREAT PLAY ON LAMBS PARK.
THIRD DOWN AND FOUR.
AT THE BUFORD 12-YARD LINE, CALHOUN TRAILING THREE NOTHING.
THIS IS A BIG THIRD DOWN PLAY, BUT I THINK CALHOUN THEY WANT SEVEN.
I THINK THEY'D BE HAPPY TO MATCH THREES WITH BEAUFORT OF THIS POINT IN TIME.
THE LOG THERE, THE UNDERDOG, THE LONGER.
THEY STAY IN THIS THING AND KEEP IT CLOSE TO BETTER OFF.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE A TRY A HALF BACK PASS.
IT WAS DEAD ON ARRIVAL.
CLAY JOHNSON WAS THE INTENDED.
RECEIVER.
AND BUFORD WAS BRINGING THE HEAT.
THEY SENT THE HOUSE AND THEY SENT THE ENTIRE SUBDIVISION ON THIS.
IT WAS MORE THAN THE HOUSE.
YOU SEE ALL THE CHASING RIGHT THERE AND THEY JUST HAD TO GET RID OF IT WHEN YOU'VE GOT ALL OF THESE GUYS.
GETTING YOUR FACE MIKEY HARD IN THAT PARTICULAR INSTANCE, GETTING INTO THE THROWERS, FACE FOR THE INCOMPLETION IN THE RUSH OF THE PAST.
ADAM GRIFFITH LINES IT UP.
UP A 29-YARD ATTEMPT TO TIE THE GAME.
THIS ONE IS ON ITS WAY AND IT IS GOOD.
ALL EVEN AT THE DOME BUFORD AND CALHOUN 33.
THE 14TH FIELD GOAL THIS SEASON IN 24 TEMPS FOR ADAM GRIFFITH GRIFFITH HEADING TO ALABAMA AFTER THIS PARTICULAR SEASONS OVER FOR HIM.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT HOW CALHOUN AS YOU WERE SAYING COACH WAS WORKING THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD, THE WAY THAT BUFORD WAS MAKING THEIR DEFENSIVE PLAYS.
YOU SEE RIGHT THERE WITH THE COMPLETION.
ONCE AGAIN, WORK THE EDGES RYERSON, GETTING A LOT OF WORK AND THEN LAMB FLUSHED OUT OF THE POCKET.
HE MAKES THE RUN GETS OUT OF BOUNDS, KEEPS THE DRIVE ALIVE AND IT CULMINATES IN THE FIELD GOAL RIGHT THERE FROM GRIFFITH, THE CHIP SHOT FOR ADAM.
GETS IT AND SPLITS IT RIGHT THROUGH AND WE ARE NOT AT A 3 3 TO 10 INTO THE SECOND.
AND FOR ADAM GRIFFITH, THE REMARKABLE STORY OF HIS ADOPTION FROM HIS NATIVE POLAND AND HOW THINGS TURN OUT.
IT'S JUST AMAZING.
HE COMES TO THIS COUNTRY, LEARNS THE LANGUAGE, THEY FIND OUT.
HE'S A PRETTY GOOD KICKER FROM HIS SOCCER BACKGROUND AND LO AND BEHOLD HE'S GONNA GO KICK FOR NICK SABAN, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
ATE YOUR EIGHT PLAYS, 45 YARDS.
TOOK A LITTLE OVER TWO MINUTES AND THE FIRST TIME HE WAS EVER STEPPING ONTO A FOOTBALL FIELD WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAD EVER SEEN, THAT OBLONG THING THAT IT'S SO WELL LIKE THAT AND HE DRILLS IT INTO THE END ZONE FOR THE AUTOMATIC CLUTCH PACK THAT PRACTICALLY WENT OUT OF THE END ZONE.
GUYS.
DO YOU THINK NICK SABAN MAY WOULD HAVE WANTED HIM A LITTLE EARLY?
YEAH, NO QUESTION BACK FOR THE NEXT LS, YOU CAN YEAH 950 TO GO 2ND QUARTER AND ALL EVEN AND TIM I JUST WANTED TO ASK YOU ABOUT THE RANGE OF EMOTIONS.
I THINK YOU GOT A LOT OF PRESSURE ON BUFORD IN THIS GAME TRY.
TO MAKE STATE HISTORY TODAY AND CALHOUN FEELS LIKE THEY'RE THAT CLOSE TO GRABBING THE BRASS RING.
WE TALKED BEFORE THE BROADCAST ABOUT THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU FIRTS DEALING WITH THIS.
THIS THING OF, YOU KNOW, FIVE STATE CHAMPIONS.
AND YOU NOTICE THE COACHES SAID, THEY DIDN'T TALK ABOUT IT ALL WEEK, LIKE COMPROMISE, YOUR PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT AND ANYTIME YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT IT, IT TENDS TO, YOU KNOW, TO HEIGHTEN THE NERVES A LITTLE BIT.
I PERSONALLY I THINK THE LONGER CALHOUN CAN HANG WITH BEAUFORT THE ANOTHER GAME THEY GO, I THINK THE PRESSURE GOES TO BEAUFORT SIDELINE SO THAT'S WHY I SAID COACH LAMB DOESN'T MIND, YOU KNOW, HE DOESN'T MIND TRADING FIELD GOALS AT THIS POINT.
SO IT IS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.
YOU THINK IT IS SURE IT IS, IT IS TRYING TO DO SOMETHING IN A GREAT STATE OF FOOTBALL FOOTBALL STATE THAT NOBODY'S EVER DONE BEFORE, THINK OF ALL THE GREAT TEAMS THAT HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE PARKVIEW RUN, THE VALDOSTA RUNS AND NOBODY'S WON FIVE STAR FIVE STRAIGHT.
THAT'S THAT'S A BIG DEAL WITH YOU AND IT SHOULD BE THAT'S CORRECT, INCOMPLETE, I THOUGHT YOU HAD A LITTLE FEARS.
HE MAY HAVE GOTTEN BY WITH THAT, BUT YEAH, I MEAN, YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT BUFORD IS CHASING RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE TIED WITH WEST ROME IN THE RUN THAT THEY HAD.
THEY HAD THREE SEPARATE COACHES TO GET TO THAT PARTICULAR RUN.
AND NOW CALHOUN'S BRINGING PRESSURE, THEY HAD EIGHT IN THE BOX THAT TIME AS CLAY WAS ROLLING OUT OF THE POCKET AND GUESS WHO MET HIM?
ONE OF THE LINEBACKERS.
YOU KNOW, THE THING THAT PEOPLE YOU MAY NOT CONSIDER THE FACT YET CALHOUN COULD JUST AS EASILY BE SITTING HERE WITH FOUR STATE TITLES IF THEY WERE IN ANOTHER CLASSIFICATION.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IT'S UNFORTUNATE, THEY'RE LOCKING UP WITH BUFORD EVERY OR WHAT A GREAT PROGRAM, THEY HAVE.
AND COACH LAMB HAS DONE A REMARKABLE JOB.
THESE ARE TWO GREAT COACHING STAFF.
PLAY THROWS.
AND THE CATCH IS MADE AT THE 41 YARD LINE FIRST DOWN FOR BUFORD A 15-YARD GAIN, AND THAT TIME IT WAS RYAN.
DILLARD, ON THE RECEPTION.
I'M VERY IMPRESSED WITH SAM PLAY.
WE HAD A CHANCE TO SEE HIM TWICE THIS YEAR.
HE'S SUCH A COMPETITOR AND HE'S SO CALM UNDER PRESSURE, YOU KNOW, HERE, THE INTENDED RECEIVERS COVERED UP AND HE LOOKS BACK AND GOES TO PROBABLY HIS SECOND OR THIRD OPTION AND HE DOES IT UNDER PRESSURE.
HE'S TAKING A COUPLE OF SIZABLE LICKS OF THIS FIRST HALF.
HE'S GONNA KNOW GABE FREEMAN BY NAME BY THE TIME THIS IS OVER.
THE HANDOFF OF JOHNSON TAKES IT FOR THE SIXTH TIME OF THE GAME.
THEY TALK ABOUT SAM CLAY.
HE'S A TO SPORTS STAR AT BUFORD AND HE'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE HEADING TO THE FLATS FOR BASEBALL AND THE WAY THAT THEY PHRASE HIM UP THERE, HE'S SMART AS ALL GET-OUT TO GO TO GEORGIA, TECH.
YOU GOTTA BE SMART AS ALL GET-OUT.
DON'T YOU READ ALLEN WAS THE DEFENDER SLOW GETTING TO HIS FEET PER COW.
THEY CAN ILL AFFORD TO LOSE HIM.
WE APPROACH THE 8-MINUTE MARK IN THE SECOND QUARTER 33.
PLAY ROLES, TIPTON AND COMPLETE RUN FRONT OF THE CALHOUN SIDELINE, IT WILL BE THIRD DOWN.
I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE GAME TO TALK AND COACH HONEYCUTT FROM BEAUFORT OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR AND HE HE WAS VERY HIGH ON CLAY HERE.
YOU SEE HE DELIVERS THE BALL IN GOOD SHAPE?
YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE THAT CATCH.
THIRD AND SEVEN.
MIGUEL.
WHO FAITHFUL MAKING A LOT OF NOISE RIGHT UNDERNEATH US.
HE FOR LIKE NEW TIGHT ENDS IN THESE SITUATIONS.
QUICK THROW TO THE OUTSIDE COMPLETE, BUT SHORT OF THE STICKS IT'S GOING TO BE FOURTH DOWN AND WE HAVE AN INTERESTING DECISION HERE ON THE PART OF JESS SIMPSON YOU'RE AT MIDFIELD.
AND YOU KNOW THE LAST THING YOU WANT TO DO IS GO THREE AND OUT AND GIVE THE BALL UP.
HE'S GOING TO PUNISH AT THE MOTION RIGHT THERE, COMING INTO THE FLAT AND A GREAT TACKLE.
BY TRENT FRICKS TO KEEP HIM SHORT OF THE FIRST DOWN MARKER.
GUYS, DO YOU GET THE FEELING THAT CALHOUN IS IN A BEND?
BUT DON'T BREAK MODE ON DEFENSE.
MAKE EVERYTHING HAPPEN IN FRONT OF YOU.
DON'T LET HIM DO ANYTHING.
DEEP GANG TACKLING, THEY'RE GETTING A LOT OF PEOPLE TO THE FOOTBALL.
AND CALHOUN WILL TAKE IT ON THE PUNT AT THE 16.
7:15 IS THE TIME REMAINING IN THE SECOND QUARTER IN A 33 BALLGAME.
TIM, YOU HAD MENTIONED THE FACT ABOUT HOW AWESOME CALHOUN HAS BEEN IN LOSING THESE TITLE GAMES TO BUFORD.
THEY ARE 53 AND OH, RIGHT WITHOUT PLAYING BEAUFORT, RIGHT THEN.
INCREDIBLE RUN OF SUCCESS.
YEAH, THEY'VE GOT A TREMENDOUS PROGRAM AND YOU HAVE TO ADMIRE THEM FOR, YOU KNOW, THEY NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT PLAYING YOU FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE DO YOU KNOW, WE DID AND YOU HATE TO RUN INTO BECAUSE NOT ONLY DO THEY BEAT YOU, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE WALKING WOUNDED FOR ABOUT A WEEK AFTER YOU PLAY THOSE GUYS.
BUT CALHOUN, THEY JUST THEY LINE UP AND GO TO WAR WITH LAMB.
CARRIES IT TO THE 20.
YOU TALK ABOUT THOSE LAST THREE MATCHUPS.
OBVIOUSLY, THE KEY IS TURNOVERS FIVE INTERCEPTIONS BY CALHOUN IN THOSE THREE GAMES.
CAN'T TURN THE BALL OVER AGAINST THE TEAM AS TALENTED AS YOU.
YOU CAN'T TURN OVERS WILL KILL YOU.
THEY'LL GET TO BEAT, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT BOTH TEAMS HAVE WON AND, YOU KNOW, BUT THEY'VE SETTLED IN AND I DON'T I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'LL SEE MANY MORE ANDRE JOHNSON.
LOOK LIKE YOU WANT TO COME UP THE MIDDLE?
BUFORD'S TRYING TO GET THREE-ON-TWO WITH THE RECEIVERS OUT UP TOP.
THAT MEANS THEY'LL PROBABLY MAN UNDERNEATH AND THEN LAT, YOU KNOW, HAVE SOMEBODY OVER THE TOP LAMB, PUSHED OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 21-YARD LINE.
THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO SEE THIS OFF OF THE LEFT EDGE.
TAYLOR LAMB COMING AT YOU, COMING AT YOU, COMING AT YOU AND I'M OUT OF TOWN.
YEAH, THAT'S A DESIGN RUN.
WILL THEY PULL THE BACKSIDE GUARD AND RAN A QUARTERBACK COUNTER?
TAYLOR LAMB IS RUSTED, FIVE TIMES FOR 16, THROWN AT 13 TIMES COMPLETED SEVEN GOES TO THE AIR AND INCOMPLETE AND BUFORD GETS A VERY QUICK THREE AND OUT.
THAT WAS A PRESSURE.
INCOMPLETION THE PRESSURE ON TOP OF LAMB, CAUSE THEM TO RUSH TO THROW A LITTLE BIT RECEIVER ACTUALLY HAD PRESSURES COMING OFF THE EDGE BUFORD'S BRINGING EVERYBODY.
AND HE'S GOT TO GET RID OF THE BALL, REALLY, BEFORE THE RECEIVER, HAD A CHANCE TO COME OUT OF HIS BREAK.
WE TALKED ABOUT HIM SENDING THE WHOLE HOUSE IN THE SUBDIVISION, THEY'RE COMING FROM ANY HOLE THAT THEY CAN FIND THEIR STUNNING.
THAT'S BULL RUSHES OFF THE EDGE.
THEY'RE THROWING EVERYTHING AT CALHOUN.
SO FAR, ZAYN ROADS WITH HIS BACK TO YOU, TO PUNT IT AWAY.
DILLARD HAS IT AT THE 45 50 AND DO CALHOUN TERRITORY ENROLLED UP, AS IT GETS TO THE 45, A 34-YARD PUNT AND A GOOD RETURN.
WATCH, ADAM.
RUTLEDGE HERE WITH HIS SHOT.
COMING UP RIGHT THERE.
THAT'S WHERE YOU'VE GOT TO BREAK DOWN.
YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T RUN PAST THE GUY THAT'S GOING TO CATCH THE FOOTBALL AT DEFENDERS.
GOT A BREAKDOWN AND I THINK CALHOUN GOT A BREAK THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO BRING HIM DOWN, ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE NOTICED IN THE PUNTING GAME, TOO.
IT BUFORD'S NOT BRINGING ANY PRESSURE AND CALHOUN'S TRYING TO GET THE BALL OUT OF THERE PRETTY QUICK UPON.
HER COULD ALMOST HOLD THAT BALL FOR JUST ANOTHER COUNT AND GIVE HIS GUYS A LITTLE MORE TIME TO GET COVERAGE.
DOWNFIELD, FIRST INTENT, BUFORD AT THE CALHOUN 45.
AB STANDING TACKLE GRANT FULLER THE OUTSIDE LINEBACKER WHO ADDS TO HIS TOTAL FOR TACKLES FOR LOSS AT 13 TO LEAD THE TEAM COMING INTO THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
NOW, MARK THIS OFFICIALLY FOR NO GAIN, SO WE'LL CALL IT SECOND AND TEN.
ONCE AGAIN, BUFORD NOT FOOLING.
ANYBODY WITH THAT UP BACK THERE, LOOKING TO PUT THREE ON TWO TO GET AN ADVANTAGE AND IT WAS PRESSURE AROUND THE OUTSIDE THAT RANT FULLER GOT AND WRAPPED HIM UP FOR THEM GAME.
SENIOR SAM CLAY WITH WILSON BEHIND AMBROSE THAT IT'S COMPLETE DOWN TO THE CALHOUN, 30-YARD LINE.
TERRIFIC.
GRAB BY RYAN DILLARD.
A 16-YARD PICKUP 3-STEP THROW BY THE QUARTERBACK PUTS THE BALL ON THE MONEY.
SETTLED RIGHT?
INTO THAT ZONE AREA RIGHT THERE.
FOUND THE WHOLE SPUN OFF AND GOT THE BIG YARDS.
LET'S SEE IT FROM BEHIND.
LEFT-HANDED, THROWER SETTLES IN BETWEEN THREE OR AMONG THREE BODIES.
AND IT TOOK TWO MORE TO BRING HIM DOWN ON OUR NIGHT, NEARLY GOT A HAND ON THAT BALL.
THE TALKS BIG RUN BY A BIG MAN DOWN TO THE 15 FOR ANDRE JOHNSON.
IT'S A GREAT JOB BY THE PEOPLE UP FRONT FOR BUFORD.
THERE'S THAT GUY.
WE WERE TALKING ABOUT FIDEL ALEXANDER AND THAT BIG OFFENSIVE LINES OF STARTS.
MOVING PEOPLE OFF THE FOOTBALL, THEY'RE JUST COMING RIGHT AT YOU OFF.
THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, ALL THOSE BIG BODY.
CLEAR IN THAT SPACE.
KEEP THE LEGS MOVING.
KEEP THE LEGS MOVING AND MORE YARDS AFTER CONTACT.
33 GAME FIRST DOWN, BEAUFORT MORE YARDS AFTER CONTACT DOWN TO THE 11.
THIS IS RICK LAGRANT.
YEAH, THAT'S IT.
THIS IS THE GAME THAT THAT BUFORD WANTS.
THEY WANT A PHYSICAL CONTEST WHERE THEY'RE HAMMERING THE FOOTBALL AGAIN.
COACH HONEYCUTT EARLY, ON BEFORE THE GAME WAS TALKING ABOUT RIGHT GUARD.
BRANDON CHEATHAM, HOW HARD HE PLAYS.
HE'S A KID THAT WILL NOT PLAY IN COLLEGE BUT HE SAID, YOU KNOW, HE TYPIFIES THAT NASTY SPIRIT THAT THEY WANT OUT OF THEIR OFFENSIVE LINEMAN READ ALLEN HAD A SHOT HEATH, EVERETT HAD A SHOT AT TOOK TWO MORE TO BRING HIM DOWN.
ALL THE TOSS DOWN TO THE 20-YARD LINE.
THERE'S A FOOTBALL CALHOUN THINKS THEY HAVE IT.
NO INDICATION YET FOR THE REFEREE.
YES, GOT IT.
THERE'S A TURNOVER GAME.
JOHN AND YOU SAID, YOU KNOW, IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
LISTEN BEAUFORT WAS LUCKY.
THEY DIDN'T FUMBLE THIS IN THE BACKFIELD.
I'M NOT.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT.
FLOATED OR IT DEFLECTED CELL.
I THINK, I THINK THE BALL ACTUALLY HIT OFF THE SHOULDER PAD OF THE FULL-BACK.
LET'S WATCH PLAY TURNS TO TOSS THE BALL HERE AND YEAH, BUT HIS LEFT HAND BALL.
GOES OFF THE FULL-BACK.
THEY WERE LUCKY THAT.
THEY GOT IT BACK THERE.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE AGAIN YOU SEE A VERY, VERY AGGRESSIVE CALHOUN DEFENSE.
IT'S GETTING TO THE POINT OF CONTACT AND JUST MAKING PLAYS GRANT FULLER COMES IN FROM BEHIND AND ALL OF THAT MADNESS CREATED BY DONNELL ANTHONY TO BRING IT OUT OF THOSE THREE PLAYERS IN CALHOUN CATCHES, ANOTHER BREAK.
HE TOOK 33 GAME, TURNING THE CORNER, AND A BIG GAIN OUT TO THE 21 YARD LINE AFTER THE SECOND.
BUFORD TURNOVER OF THE GAME.
NOW, THE YELLOW JACKETS TURNED TO DARIUS WASHINGTON.
THIS IS A COUNTER WHERE CALHOUN IS PULLING THE LEFT GUARD AND LEFT TACKLE CALHOUN'S ABLE TO CAPTURE THE EDGE ONCE AGAIN AND GET GOOD YARDAGE OFF OF IT.
I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU GUYS.
I THOUGHT THEY WOULD COME OUT THROWING AFTER THAT AFTER THE TURNOVER AND THEY DIDN'T, I THINK I KIND OF FEEL LIKE THEY MAY HAVE BUFORD ON THEIR HEELS A LITTLE BIT RIGHT HERE.
SO THEN YOU TAKE YOUR SHOT, I THINK IT'S A GREAT TIME TO DO IT, BUT, YOU KNOW, COACH LOUD MIGHT.
LIKE I SAID, AGAIN, I THINK HE'S HAPPY WITH THE BALL GAME.
FAIRLY TIGHT TIPPED AND IT COMPLETE.
GOOD JOB.
DEFENSIVELY THAT TIME.
LOOK, BRICK LAGRANT GOT A HAND ON IT AND STILL CHASE RYERSON.
NEARLY MADE THE GRAB.
THIS IS JUST A SITUATION WHERE TAYLOR LAMB DOESN'T SEE THE UNDERNEATH COVERAGE AND YOU KNOW BUFORD AT GOT UP UNDER THE ROUTE, ALMOST MADE A PICK, THAT WAS REALLY A GOOD JOB DEFENSIVELY BY JAYLON BINDS TO KNOCK IT OUT OF RYERSON'S HAND SECOND AND IT HAS SINGLE COVERAGE HERE ON THE WEAK SIDE.
LAMB LOOKS AND THROWS SLIDING CATCH.
YES, IT APPEARS.
SO GRAB IS MADE BY RYERSON AND IT'S GOING TO BE AGAIN, OUT TO THE 29 YARD LINE.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A CLOSE ONE, RIGHT DOWN TO THE BOTTOM THROWS, THE SLIDER, LOW AND AWAY.
AND THAT, OH, THIS WAS SOME DAY.
YES, BUT IT'S NOT THAT THEY ARE RED FLAG.
EVA TO DO THAT IN ABOUT NOW, WE'RE ALL IN DAYS, BUT THIS ONE STARTS WITH AN F AND HAS AN ARAI AND THERE'S THIS IS NOT A SUNDAY.
CORRECT.
YOU DON'T NEED REPLAY IN SCHOOL FOOTBALL, LEAVE IT.
LIKE IT IS, YOU KNOW.
TIMEOUT CALHOUN.
IT COMES WITH THREE 12 REMAINING.
IN THE SECOND QUARTER, THE TO A GAME LIVING UP TO ALL THE ADVANCED BILLING.
WHAT A GAME?
3-3 TIE AT THE DOME.
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GEORGIA DOME, IN ATLANTA 33 IS OUR SCORE, SECOND QUARTER 3, 12 REMAINING AND GENTLEMEN, THIS IS AS WE MENTIONED, GOING TO BREAK HAS LIVED UP TO THE ADVANCED BILLING.
WHAT A GREAT GAME BETWEEN THESE TWO HEAVYWEIGHT?
YOU'RE NOT KIDDING.
I'M REALLY IMPRESSED.
LIKE I SAID WITH CALHOUN, HOW HARD THEY'RE PLAYING ON DEFENSE, I THINK THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE IN THE GAME RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW.
THEY'RE VERY AGGRESSIVE AND THEY'RE FAST.
THEY'RE GETTING OFF BLOCKS AND IT'S A BEND RIGHT THING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT WHILE AGO.
I MEAN, DO YOU THINK MAKES A GREAT 9-YARD RUN DOWN THERE INSIDE THE 10 INSIDE THE 5?
AND YOU KNOW CALHOUN COMES UP WITH A BIG HIT BUT FUMBLE AND TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES THAT'S GOING TO BE THE KEY HERE.
IN THIS PARTICULAR, DRIVE WITH CALHOUN, THEY'VE MADE IT OUT FROM THE SHADOW OF THEIR GOAL POST.
IT, CAN THEY MAKE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE OTHER END IN THE NEXT 3, 12?
IT HAS BEEN A COUPLE OF FIELD GOALS THAT HAVE BEEN PUT ON THE BOARD BY EACH CLUB AND THAT'S A WEAPON FOR CALHOUN.
THEY THROW IS TO THE NEAR SIDE AND IT IS COMPLETE AND IT'S A FIRST DOWN FOR CALHOUN.
ANOTHER GRAB FOR THE YELLOWJACKETS.
WELL IT'S JUST A SIMPLE OUT ROUTE BY THE INSIDE.
RECEIVER THE OUT TO GUYS CLEARED IT OUT FOREIGN LAMB, MAKES A GREAT THROWING WAS ABLE TO ACTUALLY OUTRUN THE PRESSURE AND GET TO THE EDGE AND GET THE BALL ON TIME.
FRONT FRICKS COMES IN TO MAKE THAT CATCH THE FAMOUS FRISCH'S.
FAMILY OF LONG, SNAPPER HAS I THINK IT'S TIME FOR A RUN AGAIN, DON'T YOU?
SPOKEN, LIKE A COACH.
LAMB LOOKS TO THROW.
IT'S GONNA BE INCOMPLETE.
AND SOME CONTACT THERE.
BUT CLAY JOHNSON WAS UNABLE TO HAUL IT IN PRESSURE THAT TIME NUMBER 90 IS DAQUAN CLARK.
TO 40 LEFT IN THE HALF.
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YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU'RE ON PROVOST A VERY IMPRESSED.
THAT'S NOT MY HANDWRITING IS TOO NICE SCREEN SETUP.
AFTER THE BIG TOP PRESSURE, HEAD TO FOOT RACE TO THE END ZONE.
TOUCHDOWN CALHOUN.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE A CELEBRATION PENALTY HERE.
GUYS, THERE'S NO BETTER WAY.
NO, BETTER WAY TO BEAT PRESSURE THAN WITH THE SCREEN PACKAGE AND CALHOUN.
TIMED IT OUT.
PERFECT.
THERE.
63 YARDS, THE DARIUS, WASHINGTON FROM TAYLOR LAND CALHOUN GOES UP 923 WITH THE EXTRA POINT COMING WELL THE TOUCHDOWNS GOOD THE POINTS ARE GOOD.
THE PROBLEM IS CALHOUN'S GOING TO BE AT A DISADVANTAGE COMING BACK WITH THE KICKOFF.
NOW THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO KICK SOME DEEP IN THEIR OWN TERRITORY AND PROBABLY GOING TO GIVE BUFORD GOOD FIELD POSITION ON THE 20-YARD LINE IF MY MATH IS RIGHT NOW.
YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE D FOR THE BALL AROUND MIDFIELD.
IN 2060, GO IN THE HALF, LOOK FOR NUMBERS, THEIR DIDN'T SEE IT.
OTHERWISE THEY WOULD HAVE GONE FOR TWO SO IT'S GOING TO BE A CONVENTIONAL P80.
GRIFFITH BOOTS.
IT.
IT IS GOOD.
THE P80.
THAT'S THE HERO OF THE MOMENT DARIUS, WASHINGTON, AS HE TURNED HIS STRAIGHT INTO SIX.
THIS IS ALL ON THE QUARTERBACK, HE JUST DRAWS THEM IN.
HE KEEPS RETREATING.
KEEPS RETREATING LOOKING DOWNFIELD.
AND THEN FINDS THE FINDS THE OPEN, RECEIVER ON THE SCREEN, GETS A COUPLE OF GOOD BLOCKS AND OUTRUNS OF COVERAGE.
BY THE TIME DARIUS WASHINGTON CATCHES THIS FOOTBALL.
YOU SEE ALL THOSE GOLD SHIRTS, THERE ARE FIVE GOLD SHIRTS WHO ARE ATTRACTED TO THE QUARTERBACK.
WASHINGTON, HAD A GREAT LEAP TO KEEP EVERYTHING.
MOVING, PUT SOME UP, PICKS THEM UP, PUT SOME DOWN, 63 YARDS IN THE END ZONE.
AND YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT A FIRED-UP CUBING, KNOWING THAT HE'S GOT A LEAD THAT WOULD BE TAYLOR LAND.
I DIDN'T CATCH THE NUMBER OF ALIGNMENT, HAD THE CRITICAL BLOCK ON THE STREAM.
YOU KNOW, THAT WHAT AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE PLAY, THAT WAS SUPER JOB BY AN OFFENSIVE.
LINEMAN SIX PLAYS, 96 YARDS, 2008 OFF THE CLOCK.
TAYLOR LAMB HAD 65 YARDS PASSING BEFORE THAT PLAY, AND HE GETS 63 FROM THE KITCHEN RUN KICKING OFF FROM THE 25.
BUT WITH GRIFFITHS LEG, HAVING SEEN ALREADY HOW POWERFUL IT IS ON.
KICKOFFS THE INTERESTING TO SEE JUST HOW FAR BUFORD CAN RUN THIS BACK.
YEAH, THE PROBLEM WITH THIS IS NOW YOUR OUT KICKING YOUR COVER, RIGHT?
AND THIS IS A TEAM THAT'S NOT USED TO COVERING KICKS BECAUSE THEY'RE IN THE END ZONE GRIFFIN.
PUT SOME AIR INTO IT.
YEP.
CJ MORE ON THE RETURN FROM THE TENT.
THAT'S AS GOOD AS YOU CAN HOPE FOR IS GREAT COVERAGE.
AND I WAS VERY SURPRISED TO AND HOW HIGH HE COULD.
YEAH.
2:19 TO GO IN THE HAND.
WHAT REMEMBER BUFORD WAS IN THE SAME SITUATION LAST WEEK?
THEY WERE TRAILING AT THE HALF.
IF THIS STAYS THE WAY THE SCORE IS NOW AND IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT THEY HAD TRAILED IN ANY GAME SINCE WEEK 1 OF LAST SEASON AND YOU SAW HOW THEY HANDLE IT LAST WEEK DOWN IN COLUMBUS, WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW WELL THEY HANDLE IT THIS WEEK UNDER THE BIG TOP.
FIRST ATTEMPT FROM THE 32.
THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO.
THEY'RE GOING TO PUT THE BALL IN THE HANDS OF THEIR RUNNING BACK TODAY.
JAY MOHR DOWN THE SIDELINES AND JUST LIKE THAT.
WOW, BUFORD IS BACK IN FRONT.
I'LL SEE YOUR 67 WITH A 68.
I GUESS SO.
WOW.
LIKE WHAT TOSS TO SEE JAY MOHR, HE TURNED THAT CORNER GUYS AND WAS GONE.
JOHN YOU SAID BEFORE THE GAME YOU KNOW BUFORD THEY DO WHAT THEY DO AND RUNNING THE BALL AS WHAT THEY DO AND THEY STAYED WITH IT.
AND DON'T THINK THAT MIKE LONDON AND THE FOLKS UP IN CHARLOTTESVILLE AREN'T GOING TO BE HAPPY TO HAVE CJ MORE NEXT YEAR, AGREE.
POINT AFTER COMING, DAVID PATRONI LOOKS TO TIE THE GAME WITH 206 LEFT OF THE PERIOD.
AND HE KNOCKED IT, THROUGH TIES, IT AT 10.
WELL AGAIN WE SEE YOU KNOW BUFORD OVERLOADS RIGHT SIDE TO GET AN UNBALANCED.
LOOK, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE REALLY GOOD AT THE POINT OF ATTACK AND ONCE HE GETS A SCENE GOES BACK TO WHAT WAS SAID A FEW MINUTES AGO WHEN VIEW FORGETS TO THAT SECOND LEVEL, THEY'RE GOING TO BE AT THE THIRD LEVEL IN A HURRY.
ALL RIGHT, COMING RIGHT INTO YOUR LIVING ROOM, LEFT HAND SIDE, THE CUT BACK, AND LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THE HOLE THAT CJ MORE HAS TO PLAY WITH.
AND ONCE HE GOT PAST THE 40 YARD LINE, NO ONE WAS IN ANY POSITION TO TOUCH HIM FOR THE 68 YARD.
WELL, CUT BACK WAS A GOOD IDEA BECAUSE WHAT HE DID IS HE YOU KNOW, HE HIT A HOLE WHERE THE THE DEFENSE WAS ACTUALLY OVER PURSUING AND DOING THE RIGHT THING TRYING TO CUT HIM OFF AND TURN IT BACK IN.
THE PROBLEM WAS, BUFORD DID A NICE JOB OF SEALING OFF THE INSIDE.
NOBODY WAS THERE WHEN HE CUT IT BACK AND THIS IS WHAT WE'VE SEEN OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS PUNCH.
COUNTERPUNCH WELL, CJ MORE SUCH A NICE COMPLIMENT TO WHAT BUFORD DOES.
YOU KNOW THEY HAMMER YOU WITH THOSE BIG BACKS HAMMER YOU YOU KNOW AND THEY GET YOU USED TO THAT SLUGGO KIND OF OFFENSE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY CHANGE GEARS ON YOU WITH THE KID THAT CAN RUN GAME TIED AT 10 WITH 206 TO GO IN THE HALF.
AND THAT RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE LINE IS THE LINE THAT DOESN'T HAVE THE MOST OF THE BEEF WHILE.
CARDI YELLOW IS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 280 THE CENTER AND THE RIGHT GUARD THEY'RE LIKE YOU KNOW, 180 210, RIGHT?
AND A BIG RETURN FOR CALHOUN, GETS IT OUT TO THE 34 YARD LINE.
BY THIS CURTIS HAS BEEN TERRIFIC ON KICK RETURNS.
BRINGS IT OUT FOR CALHOUN.
THEY'LL MARK HIM AT THE 33-YARD LINE GASPS.
DO YOU GET THE FEELING THAT BOTH TEAMS?
HAVE THE NERVES OUT OF THE WAY NOW.
YEAH, I THINKS GONNA FEET UP UNDER THEM AND TERRIFIC BALLGAME.
A LAMB OF THE JACKETS.
LET'S SEE HOW THEY WORK.
THEIR TWO-MINUTE DRILL HERE.
MAYBE GET INTO POSITION FOR A GROUP OF FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT.
TAYLOR LAMB IS THE QUARTERBACK AND A FLAG.
CLOSE THIS ONE DEAD.
BEFORE THE SNAP FALSE, START ON THE OFFENSE FIVE YARD PENALTY STILL FIRST DOWN.
SO THAT COSTS A LAMENT COMPANY.
FIVE BACK TO THE 28TH.
BUFORD HAS A REAL LUXURY AND RYAN DILLARD, HE'S IN THE LEFT CORNER OVER HERE.
HE'S A GUY THAT'S ABLE TO LOCK UP A GUY MAN-ON-MAN AND NOT REQUIRE ANY HELP OVER THE TOP, YOU KNOW AND THEN THAT IT ALLOWS THE DEFENSE TO TO ROLL THEIR COVERAGE AND GET OVER THE TOP OF THE THREE RECEIVER SIDE.
BANNOS SLIPS ON THE CUT YOUR TALK.
YOU TALKED ABOUT THAT SECONDARY, CJ MORE PARIS.
HAD RYAN DILLARD ALL STARTED ON THIS TEAM WHEN THEY WERE SOPHOMORES AS PART OF THIS RUN.
SO THEY'VE SEEN THIS WHOLE THING AND THEY KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HERE.
THEY'RE PLAYING IN THERE.
LITERALLY PLAYING 45TH BALL GAME ROOM.
I'D BE ABOUT, RIGHT?
IT'S NOT BAD.
DETECTIVE THAT FOOTBALL AFTER THE 29-YARD LINE OR BATEAU WITH THE GRAB AND TAKING IT OUT TO THE 28-YARD LINE GOING TO BE THIRD AND LOOKS LIKE ABOUT 14 GUYS WITH 106 TO GO OF THE HAND THERE WITH TWO TIMEOUTS TO GO.
A LITTLE SURPRISED BUFORD DIDN'T BURN ONE THERE TO STOP THE CLOCK BUT THEY DON'T EXACTLY HAVE TWO-MINUTE OFFENSE.
I THINK BOTH TEAMS MAY BE CONTENT TO TAKE IT TO THE LOCKER ROOM AT THE HALF AND THEN AND THEN MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS.
IT'S COACH, LAMBOURN HIS TIME OUT HERE RIGHT BEFORE THE END OF THE PLAY CLOCK TO.
SO, YES, FINE.
THERE IT IS.
YEAH.
CALHOUN WILL STOP IT.
39 SECONDS LEFT IN THE HALF.
A COUPLE OF BUFORD TURNOVERS THAT THEY HAVE DIED.
AGED IN TERMS OF GIVING UP, POINTS DIRECTLY OFF OF THOSE TURNOVERS, A COUPLE OF FIELD GOALS AND A COUPLE OF BIG RUNS, RUN ON THE SCREEN CATCH AND RUN THAN JUST THE TOSS TO CJ MORE, THAT'S THE SCORING SO FAR.
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WOLVES AND YELLOWJACKETS.
IN THIS ONE.
WITH 39 SECONDS LEFT IN THE FIRST HAND AND OUR EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, STEVE GRAHAM MADE A GREAT POINT.
WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WHAT THIS MATCHUP WAS, IT WAS ALMOST A COMPARISON BETWEEN SECRETARIAT AND SHAM CALHOUN OF LIKES TO RUN IT AND YEAH, CONTINUE TO WORK THE CLOCK ARAB.
A DO MORE FOR HIS MONEY THAN HE, PERHAPS THOUGHT OUT TO THE 41 YARD LINE.
AND FOR THOSE THAT DON'T KNOW, HORSE RACING SECRETARIAT WINS, THE TRIPLE CROWN BY GREAT DISTANCES AND CHAMPIONS UP S ON ALL THOSE TIMES.
AND WE SAID EARLIER, THAT THE SCREEN WAS THE BEST WAY TO ATTACK THE BLITZ AND WELL, THE DRAWS THE SECOND BEST WAY AND AGAIN HOUSE JUST, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST RAN THE BALL.
THREE CONSECUTIVE PLAYS TO BURN THE CLOCK AND TRY TO GET HIM TO HALFTIME HERE.
WE SEE ALEX, HER PIANO RIGHT THERE.
ALL 59, 180 OF THEM SECOND GENERATION, YELLOWJACKET MAKING IT TO THE GAME 15.
AND THAT IS THE HALF.
WE PLAYED 24 MINUTES AND HAVE DECIDED NOTHING.
LET'S GO DOWN TO THE FIELD AND NIKKI YOU KNEW COMING INTO THIS GAME.
IT WASN'T GOING TO BE EASY, AND UP UNTIL ABOUT TWO AND A HALF MINUTES.
IN THE FIRST HALF, WE HAD A PAIR OF FIELD GOALS CALHOUN.
GOT THE FIRST TOUCHDOWN, WE JUST SAW CJ, MORE 168 YARDS.
HOW ARE YOU GUYS GOING TO USE THAT MOMENTUM AND CONTROL THE BALLGAME?
SECOND HALF, THAT WAS A BIG ANSWER FOR US.
I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, THE TURNOVER DOWN THERE HURT US BUT WE HAD TO RESPOND.
THEY DID A NICE JOB ON THEIR SCREEN AND THEN WE ANSWERED THEIR SCORES WITH OURS AND YOU KNOW, YOU GOT A 10-10 GAME AND THAT'S PROBABLY EXACTLY WHAT WE EXPECTED.
THANKS COACH, GOOD LUCK BACK TO YOU MARK, NIKKI, THANKS SO MUCH.
WE'VE GOT A BIG HALFTIME SHOW COMING UP FOR YOU WILL HEAR FROM BOTH MARCHING BANDS, WE'VE GOT PRINCIPLES, WE'VE GOT SPECIAL GUESTS WILL ALSO SEE SOME OF THE GREAT PLAYS OF THE YEAR, COMING UP ALL THAT AND MORE COMING UP ON OUR GPB CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND.
HALFTIME SHOW RIGHT NOW.
IT IS 10, 10 A BATTLE OF HEAVYWEIGHTS, BUFORD AND CALHOUN AS THE WOLVES GO FOR A SHOT AT GEORGIA.
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WELCOME BACK TO CANCEL LIFETIME.
IT'S THE FINAL STAGE OF THE GAME AND IT'S ALSO TIME FOR JANE TO CHOOSE A DOOR.
HELP HER OUT.
WHAT DOOR SHOULD SHE PICK?
ALL RIGHT, SO JANE WHICH DOOR DID YOU CHOOSE?
THINK I'M GONNA GO WITH DOOR.
NUMBER TWO OR NUMBER.
OH WAIT A MINUTE.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT SAYS RIGHT HERE THAT YOU NEVER GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL.
SO NONE OF THESE DOORS ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU.
THAT'S IT FOR CHANCE OF A LIFETIME.
WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME.
WELCOME BACK TO HALFTIME, THE BUFORD CALHOUN GAME, THIS ONE ALL KNOTTED UP AT 10:10.
RIGHT NOW, AS THE WOLVES DRIVE, 45 CONTINUES, WE GOT A BIG HALFTIME SHOW COMING UP RIGHT NOW.
WE'LL HEAR FROM BOTH MARCHING BANDS, PRINCIPAL SPECIAL GUEST AND WE'LL HA LOOK AT SOME OF THE GREAT PLAYS OF THE YEAR THAT YOU SAW ON FOOTBALL FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA.
RIGHT HERE ON GPB THE FIRST UP, AS WE MENTIONED THROUGHOUT THE FIRST HALF, THIS IS AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE.
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LET'S GO DOWN TO OUR SOCIAL MEDIA MAVEN, JACKIE BRITTAIN WITH MORE JACKIE.
THANKS, MARK.
LET'S GET TO SOME OF OUR CHATTERS HAVE BEEN TALKING TO US ALL OVER THE WORLD.
WE HAVE DAVID WATCHING FROM BRUSSELS BELGIUM, AND WILL OR WATCHING FROM GERMANY CHEERING TONIGHT FOR BUFORD.
SO, WE ENCOURAGE YOU GUYS TO KEEP CHATTING WITH US.
WE'VE GOT A LOT OF GUYS ONLINE RIGHT NOW.
SO WE ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU GUYS TALKING TO US.
NOW FOR THIS WEEK'S POLL, LET'S JUMP INTO THE RESULTS AS THEY STAND AT THE HALF.
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NOW, FOR SOMETHING THAT WE STARTED LAST WEEK, IT'S CALLED THE ULTIMATE PLAY OF THE YEAR FOR THIS SEASON.
WE NEED YOU GUYS TO KEEP VOTING ON THIS THE RESULTS.
THE CHANGED SO FAR.
WE HAVE GRAYSON VERSUS BROOKWOOD LEADS WITH 68 PERCENT FOLLOWED BY FLOWERY BRANCH VERSUS HERITAGE.
OR I'M SORRY PEACH, TREE RIDGE MRS. WALTON WITH 18% FLOWERY BRANCH VERSUS HERITAGE HAS ONLY 8 PERCENT IN CAL VERSUS MAYOR'S COMES IN LAST AT 6%.
YOU GUYS CAN ACCESS THOSE VIDEOS AS WELL AS KEEP WATCHING THIS GAME.
SO WE HAD SOME CONFUSION ON THE CHAT ABOUT THAT.
THE BOX IS LOCATED DIRECTLY BELOW THE CHAT WINDOW IN THE SPOT CALLED PLAY OF THE YEAR.
SO KEEP VOTING.
WE NEED YOUR GUYS, IF YOU NEED, YOU ALL SUPPORT ONLINE RIGHT NOW.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S ALL WE'VE GOT FOR RIGHT NOW.
KEEP CHATTING WITH US.
WE APPRECIATE TALKING TO YOU GUYS.
ALL AROUND THE WORLD WILL HAVE SOME RENT, CHECK IN A LITTLE BIT, MARK, BACK TO YOU.
ALL RIGHT, JACKIE, THANKS SO MUCH.
IT'S TIME NOW TO CHECK IN WITH THE MARCHING BAND OF THE BUFORD WOLVES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF WALLACE CONRAD.
LET'S LISTEN IN.
HAVE YOU EVER HIGH SCHOOL, MARCHING BAND, DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB.
AS ALWAYS, WE WELCOME THAT OF THE PROGRAM, THE PRINCIPLE OF YOU FOR HIGH SCHOOL, DR. BANKS, BITTERMAN AND DOCTOR ADVISED TO HAVE YOU IN HERE.
WHAT'S IT LIKE UP AT SCHOOL RIGHT NOW?
YOU GUYS GO ON FOR AN UNPRECEDENTED.
FIFTH STRAIGHT FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP.
WELL, TELL YOU WHAT, THERE'S A LOT OF EXCITEMENT AT OUR SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, WE'RE VERY BLESSED TO BE IN THIS SITUATION.
IT'S AMAZING.
THE AMOUNT OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT WE HAVE IN BUFORD AS WELL AS YOU KNOW, OUR COACHES THE SACRIFICES THEY GIVE FROM THEIR FAMILY AND ALL THE TIME THEY PUT INTO THESE KIDS AS WELL AS AMOUNT OF TIME.
THE KIDS PUT IN BETWEEN ACADEMICS AND ATHLETICS.
I MEAN RIGHT NOW IT'S PRETTY MUCH 24/7.
ANOTHER THING YOU WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WAS THE AAA EXCELLENCE UP IF YOU FOR HIGH SCHOOL?
WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT?
BEFORE WE STRIVE FOR AAA AXIS X AND ACADEMICS ATHLETICS IN THE ARCH, WE LOOK AT AS A THREE-LEGGED STOOL AND THEN THE MIDDLE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, YOU KNOW, WE JUST RECENTLY WON THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, THE ONE-ACT PLAY WITH KIM STAPLES.
WE HAD AN UNPRECEDENTED WINNING AND STATE SOFTBALL STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS.
WHEN OUR FIFTH, IN A ROW WITH COACH, TONY WOLF AND HIS CREW AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALL ABOUT ACADEMICS, LET'S FACE IT.
WE WANT TO MAXIMIZE THE EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL ABILITY WHICH LEADS TO THE MAXIMIZATION OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR STUDENTS.
ALL RIGHT TIME.
NOW TO PLAY, ARE YOU SMARTER THAN IT'S TIME TO HAVE THE QUESTION?
COME ON IN THERE.
PICK AN ANSWER OUT OF THE FOOTBALL HELMET THERE.
GPB.
LET'S SEE WHAT WE HAVE.
WE'VE GOT US HISTORY, UNITED STATES RESPONDED TO GERMANY'S UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE DURING THE EARLY 1900S BY A ENTERING WORLD WAR ONE.
BE SUSPENDING, TRADE WITH BRITAIN, SEE SIGNING A TREATY WITH AUSTRIA-HUNGARY OR D WITHDRAWING MILITARY FORCES FROM EUROPE.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
I'D SAY A ENTERING WORLD WAR ONE.
LET'S SEE.
AND A IS RIGHT, ENTERING WORLD WAR 1, YOU ARE SMARTER THAN YOUR STUDENTS.
SO CONGRATULATIONS AND GOOD LUCK HERE IN THE SECOND HALF.
THANK YOU.
ALL RIGHT, TIME NOW TO CHECK IN WITH JACKIE BRITTAIN WITH AN ADDITION WE CALL RENT CHECK.
JACKIE.
THANKS MARK, THIS IS RENT, CHECK WHERE WE CHECK IN ON SOME OF THE PARENTS OF THE STUDENT ATHLETES AND JOINING ME RIGHT NOW, ARE KEN AND KELLY BURGE, THEIR SON IS TYLER, BIRDS, WHO IS A SENIOR LINEMAN.
THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.
ALL RIGHT, I'M GOING TO GIVE THE THE FIRST QUESTION TO YOU KEN, WHAT IS YOUR SON'S FAVORITE ATHLETE?
WHO IS YOUR SON'S FAVORITE UP?
PROBABLY THESE MINES, LARRY BIRD.
IT'S ACTUALLY A FLORIDA GATOR.
TIM TEBOW THAT SURPRISE YOU.
ALL RIGHT.
AND KELLY, WHO'S HIS FAVORITE TEACHER WAS THE ONE CLASS HE'D NEVER MISS BECAUSE OF HIS TEACHER.
THAT'S KIND OF A TOSS-UP.
HE'S GOT A COUPLE OF FAVORITE TEACHERS.
SO I WOULD SAY, MISS DAVIS OR MISS WALTON, THIS HOSTLER ACTUALLY, I'VE GOT TWO LEFT, IT'S NOT OVER YET.
ALL RIGHT, AND IT'S FAVORITE LUNCH.
I'M GONNA GIVE THIS ONE TO YOU.
MOM DON'T EVEN HAVE THEM IS HOSTLER, I'M JUST TEASING.
OKAY.
WELL, WHAT'S HIS FAVORITE LUNCH?
WHATEVER MOM PICKS IS, WHAT HE WROTE.
SO THAT'S WHAT YOU MAKE.
ALL RIGHT, LAST ONE.
WHAT'S HIS MAJOR GOING TO BE?
WHEN HE GOES OFF TO COLLEGE?
EXCUSE ME.
HIS MAJOR.
WHEN HE GOES OFF TO COLLEGE.
CROATIAN, DIRECT PHYSICAL THERAPY, WHICH IS CLOSE ENOUGH.
SO I'M GONNA GIVE IT TO YOU GUYS.
BUT SINCE SINCE YOU GUYS WERE PLAYING WITH US TONIGHT, WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF TV CAN HOLD.
ONE.
AND THESE ARE ARM TO YOU PLAYING RENT.
CHECK, THERE WE GO.
YOU'RE WELCOME.
ALL RIGHT, MARK, WE'RE GOING TO SEND IT BACK OVER TO.
YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER ONE COMING UP SOON.
ALL RIGHT.
JACKIE, THANKS SO MUCH.
WE'RE AT HALFTIME.
DO YOU FOR CALHOUN?
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I'M GOING TO TAKE A SHORT BREAK HERE ON GPB BUT WILL RACK WITH FROM THE CLASS DOUBLE A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, BUFORD AND CALHOUN RIGHT AFTER THIS TIMEOUT.
BROADCAST OF THIS PROGRAM IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY THE FOLLOWING THE MABEL READER FOUNDATION.
DID YOU KNOW, ONE IN THREE TEENS HAVE EXPERIENCE, DATING VIOLENCE AND ABUSE 81 PERCENT OF PARENTS SURVEYED EITHER BELIEVE TEEN DATING VIOLENCE IS NOT AN ISSUE OR THEY ADMIT THEY DON'T KNOW IF IT'S AN ISSUE PARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
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CORPORATIONS ARE PROUD TO SPONSOR, THE GEORGIA, HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION AND TO HELP OUR STUDENT ATHLETES BECOME THE LEADERS OF TOMORROW.
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BECOME A FAN AND FOLLOW US ONLINE STAY IN THE LOOP WITH THE LATEST GPB NEWS AND CONNECT WITH OTHER FANS.
WELCOME BACK TO THE GPB HALFTIME SHOW OF THIS DOUBLE A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME BETWEEN BUFORD AND CALHOUN.
WE'RE GOING TO CHECK IN.
NOW, WITH THE SOUNDS OF THE CALHOUN MARCHING BAND UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MICHAEL CLARKE.
LET'S LISTEN IN CALHOUN MARCHING BAND.
SOUNDING GREAT IS ALWAYS WELCOMED OUT OF THE PROGRAM, THE PINS PRINCIPLE OF CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL, GREG RIGHT.
THANKS FOR COMING IN WITH US.
THANK YOU TALK.
A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AND YOUR FAN BASE TO MAKE THE TRIP HERE TO THE GEORGIA DOME.
IT'S FOUR YEARS IN A ROW AND I KNOW THEY'VE BEEN RABBIT.
THERE ARE A LOT OF FANS.
HERE, WE WERE GIVEN FOUR THOUSAND TICKETS.
WE SOLD OUT OF THEM TODAY AND YOU CAN PRETTY MUCH TELL THAT THEY'RE NOT MANY FOLKS LEFT BACK IN TOWN.
THEY STARTED LEAVING ABOUT 11:30.
THIS, THIS IS IMPORTANT TO OUR COMMUNITY.
OUR COMMUNITY HAS BEEN BEHIND US.
SINCE THE FIRST DAY, THE SCHOOL IS IN THE MIDDLE OF TOWN AND IT IS THE MIDDLE OF THE COMMUNITY AS YOU CAN SEE AND IT'S JUST A LOT OF EXCITEMENT HERE IS YOU GUYS, GOING FOR THAT FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP SINCE 52 OR 52.
YES.
OR THE, YOU KNOW, AND WE HAVE PEOPLE IN THE STANDS UP THERE THAT THEIR GRANDKIDS ARE DOWN HERE AND THEY PLAYED ON THE FUTURE TO THING.
AND I WE TALK ABOUT THAT EVERY CHANCE WE GET CALHOUN ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT CAME BEFORE US AND WAS EXPECTED.
SO WE ASK A LOT OF OUR KIDS BECAUSE WELL THEIR FAMILIES ASKING, ALL RIGHT, IT'S TIME NOW TO PLAY.
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN PICK A QUESTION OUT OF THE PROBABLY NOT BE BE HELMET AND SEE WHAT WE GOT HERE.
OH MAN YOU GOT THE SCIENCE ONE ON THE MOON.
GRAVITY CAUSES A ROCK HAMMER TO FALL MORE SLOWLY TO THE GROUND AND ON EARTH, WHICH LUNAR FACTOR CAUSES IT TO THAT RATE OF FALL, IS IT A SMALLER RADIUS?
BE SLOWER ROTATION.
SEE LOWER DENSITY OR D LESSER MAN.
I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE ROTATION AND GRAVITY BUT I THINK IS DEEP.
LET'S SEE IF IT IS, IT'S DEAL.
THAT'S ALL RIGHT.
CONGRATULATIONS.
THAT'S ALWAYS A GOOD THING SCIENCE.
QUESTIONS ARE TOUGH.
WELL, I WROTE HAD BIOLOGY BUT THAT'S OKAY.
AND CONGRATULATIONS ON THE BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE AWARD.
YES, WE'RE VERY BE PROUD OF THAT.
IT'S A TESTIMONY OF WHAT OUR KIDS CAN DO, BECAUSE IT IS A NATIONAL AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT.
IT'S A TESTIMONY WHAT I KIDS CAN DO AND OUR TEACHERS BEEN EVERY DAY.
LISTEN THANKS VERY MUCH, AND GOOD LUCK IN THE SECOND HALF.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
ALL RIGHT TIME NOW TO CHECK IN WITH JACKIE BRITTAIN ONE MORE TIME FOR ANOTHER EDITION OF RENT, CHECK JACKIE.
THANKS FOR JOINING ME.
NOW IS TINA, FRICKS HER SON IS TRENT FRANKS IS A SENIOR RUNNING BACK FOR CALHOUN.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.
HI.
ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU THE FIRST QUESTION.
WHAT'S YOUR SON'S FAVORITE SUBJECT?
HIS FAVORITE SUBJECT.
I THINK IT'S POTTERY.
HE MAKES REALLY GOOD POTS AND HE LOVES.
HE LOVES USING HIS ARTISTIC ABILITY TO BRING AND BRING HIS POTS HOME.
TO SHOW ME HIS INVENTIONS EVERY COUPLE WEEKS.
WELL, THAT'S DEFINITELY A FIRST FOR RENT.
CHECK, WE'VE NEVER HAD POTTERY BUT IT'S ACTUALLY SCIENCE.
ALL RIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ONE.
HIS FAVORITE TEACHER.
IT'S FAVORITE TEACHER IS MRS. EUBANKS, HE LOVES ALL HIS TEACHERS.
I CAN'T HOSKO.
BUT MRS. EUBANKS HAS BEEN HIS HOMEROOM TEACHER FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS.
WELL THAT ONE'S CORRECT AND HIS FAVORITE CAR.
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO SEE HIM DRIVING AROUND TOWN IN WELL FEW WEEKS AGO?
HE WANTED A BROWN F-150.
SO YOU KNOW, 18 YEAR OLD BOYS COULD CHANGE THEIR MIND SO I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THAT ONE.
WELL, IT'S ACTUALLY A CHEVY CAMARO AND THAT'S THE MOST POPULAR ANSWER WE GET ON RENT, CHECK.
ALRIGHT, LAST QUESTION, IF HE WASN'T PLAYING FOOTBALL, WHAT WOULD HE BE DOING?
HE'D BE PLAYING BASEBALL.
HE'S A GREAT THAT THAT'S CORRECT.
ARE WE GOING TO GIVE YOU A T-SHIRT FOR PLAYING RENT, CHECK A LITTLE GPB PHORIA.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
MARK WILL SEND IT BACK TO YOU.
ALL RIGHT, JACKIE, THANKS SO MUCH.
IT'S TIME NOW TO BEAM BACK UP TO THE PRESS BOX.
WE'RE GOING TO CHECK IN WITH JON NELSON AND JOHN.
WE'VE HAD SOME GREAT MEMORABLE MOMENTS THROUGHOUT THE FIRST SEASON HERE ON FOOTBALL FRIDAYS IN GEORGIA, ON GPB.
AND I KNOW YOU SPENT PART OF THE WEEK, FINDING THE VERY BEST PLAYS TO SHOW US AND THERE'S ALSO PART ON GPB.ORG WHERE YOU CAN VOTE FOR PLAY OF THE YEAR, BUT WHAT WE DECIDED TO DO WAS GO THROUGH THE LIBRARY AND SEE SOME OF THE GREAT MOMENTS FROM YOUR ONE AND SIMPLY ASK YOU.
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN THAT'S STRAIGHT AHEAD.
BIG HOLE 4050 LIPS.
NOBODY'S GOING TO CATCH THEM 30 DAY, TRY TO CLOSE AN ANGLE, 20, 10 5 TOUCHDOWN WALT.
JUST THAT QUICK RIGHT AT THE CLOSE OF THE THIRD QUARTER.
ATTEND ALL BALL GAME, OH MY GOODNESS, SMITH TRIES TO CHASE IT BACK AND HE KICKS IT OUT OF THE END ZONE TO SAY, THAT'LL BE A SAFETY TWO POINTS.
OPEN IT WHEN I TURN IT ON.
TURNING THE CORNER RIGHT NOW.
STEVEN DAVIS TOUCHDOWN, TOUCHDOWN STEPHENSON, RYAN CARTER WITH THE TACKLE, THE BLITZ MOON, SHOVEL PASSES CLICKED, AND THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE IT IN FOR A TOUCHDOWN, A TOUCHDOWN FOR GRAYSON, AND THEY COULD NOT DO IS CASEY DANES TOUCHDOWN?
GRAYSON MY GOODNESS.
THIRD AND 17 FOR COLQUITT COUNTY OVER THE MIDDLE.
THAT'S LITERALLY WILL GET OVER THE 4045 MIDFIELD.
HE COULD GO 40, 35, 30, 25, 20, 10, 5, TOUCHDOWN TOUCHDOWN, COLQUITT COUNTY, NO FLATS.
AND SO MARK WE'RE LOOKING TO ADD A LOT MORE, A LOT MORE MOMENTS TO THE BOTTOM HALF OF THAT PARTICULAR PACKAGE THAT YOU JUST SAW.
I'M GONNA SEND IT BACK DOWN TO YOU BECAUSE COACH BOB AND I WE'VE GOT GET READY FOR A VERY COMPETITIVE SECOND, HALF HERE BETWEEN BUFORD AND CALHOUN.
ALL RIGHT, JOHN THANKS VERY MUCH.
I APPRECIATE IT TIME.
NOW TO CHECK OUT THE MATCHUPS ON THE IAN.
GEORGIA, EMC, HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD, CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHUPS IN THE CLASS SUBWAY RIGHT NOW.
ADD HALF, IT'S ALL TIED UP 10/10.
THAT'S AT EITHER DATE.
IT'S A BATTLE OF UNBEATENS IN CLASS.
4A IS THE TUCKER TIGERS TAKING ON THE WILDCATS OF LOVEJOY THEN TOMORROW.
THREE BIG GAME.
SINGLE A FIRST AT 1:00.
SAVANNAH, CHRISTIAN TOP-RANKED TAKES ON LANDMARK CHRISTIAN, THEN AT 4:30 BURKE COUNTY AND PEACH COUNTY AND THEN WRAPPING UP THE ENTIRE WEEKEND.
THE BATTLE OF HEAVYWEIGHTS TWO UNBEATEN TEAMS AND 5A THE WALTON, RAIDERS TAKING ON THE GRAYSON RAMS.
WE'RE GETTING READY FOR THE SECOND HALF.
RIGHT NOW.
THIS DOUBLE A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME BETWEEN BUFORD AND CALHOUN, BUT BEFORE WE GET BACK TO THE ACTION, WE WANT TO SHOW YOU A WAY, YOU CAN SHOW YOUR APPRECIATION OF HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ON GPB.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO TEXT THE TEN DOLLAR DONATION, TO GPB TO HELP KEEP PROGRAMMING LIKE THIS ON THE AIR.
IF YOU TEXT THE LETTERS, GPB TO THE NUMBER EIGHT, FIVE NINE FOUR FOUR.
BE SURE TO APPLY.
YES.
AND MESSAGE AND DATA RATES.
DO A BLOG.
LET'S NOW SEND IT BACK TO THE BOOTH FOR THE SECOND HAND.
BOB RATHMAN, JOHN NELSON AND COACH TIM MCFARLIN TAKE HER AWAY.
WELL IT HAS BEEN JUST AN AWESOME FOOTBALL GAME SO FAR JUST WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT WITH THESE TWO TEAMS AND EXCITING.
SECOND HALF IS STRAIGHT AHEAD.
STAY WITH US HERE ON GPB FOR THE CALHOUN BUFORD STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
AND TO A RIGHT NOW, TEN TEN AT THE BREAK.
THE 2011 GHSA CHAMPIONSHIPS ON GPB ARE MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY THE FOLLOWING.
IF I HAD ASKED, WILL I LOSE CONTROL ON METH COCAINE METH AND REALLY MAKE YOU VIOLENT?
OR IF I HAD ASKED, WILL MESS MICKEY STEAL FROM MY OWN FAMILY.
I WOULDN'T BE ASKING MY BROTHER THE FOOTBALL HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS ON GPB ARE MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY THE GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION WHICH THANKS GEORGIA FARM BUREAU FOR THEIR SUPPORT.
WE STRONGLY BELIEVE IN TRAINING, LEADERS OF TOMORROW.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE PROUD TO BE PART OF GEORGIA.
HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION PROGRAM FARM BUREAU IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION SERVING OUR STATE FOR NEARLY 75 YEARS WHILE WE FOCUS ON FARMERS AND RURAL GEORGIA, I'VE BENEFITS ARE AVAILABLE TO ALL FROM INSURANCE TO HELP PROGRAMS TO POPLAR DISCOUNT PROGRAM, GEORGIA FARM BUREAU.
HELPING YOU IS WHAT WE DO.
STANTON IS A GREAT HOUSE AND THE CRAWLEYS ARE A GREAT.
FOUNDING YOU DO NOT LOVE THE PLACE YET YOU SEE A MILLION BRICKS AT MAY CRUMBLE?
I SEE MY LIFE'S WORK.
DO YOU LOVE ME ENOUGH TO SPEND YOUR LIFE WITH ME?
THEY ALL HAVE DIFFERENT PARTS TO PLAY AND WE MUST ALL BE ALLOWED TO PLAY THEM.
WHEN I MEET JOHN, JOHN HAS DECIDED TO DROP OUT OF SCHOOL, BUT WHAT HE DIDN'T REALIZE IS THAT, NOW THIS DOOR WILL BE CLOSED TO HIM.
AND THIS ONE THIS ONE TOO.
YOU GET THE IDEA.
BOTH BALL CLUBS BACK OUT ON THE FIELD.
HERE AT THE GEORGIA, DOME, IN ATLANTA 1010 BETWEEN BUFORD AND CALHOUN.
AS WE GET SET TO START THE THIRD QUARTER, CHECK OUT THE FIRST HALF HIGHLIGHTS GENTLEMEN.
THE FIRST BREAK OF THE GAME WENT TO CALHOUN YEAH DUDE.
IT WAS ON A PUNT AND YOU KNOW WE ATTRIBUTED TO THIS TO NERVES BUT YOU KNOW THE OTHER FACTOR IS THIS IS A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT TO CATCH UPON IN YOU LOOKING UP AGAINST THE CEILING HERE AND IT'S LITTLE LITTLE DIFFERENT.
THERE'S THE MISSED FIELD GOAL BY CALHOUN TRYING TO GET ONTO THE BOARD.
A LONG-DISTANCE FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT THERE BY ADAM GRIFFITH BUT THERE'S PATRONI WITH HIS ATTEMPT AND THAT IS HE WAS GOOD FROM 33.
I MADE IT 3 NOTHING.
BUFORD BUFORD CONTINUED TO HAVE PROBLEMS.
I'M ONE OF THE FLUKY IS PLAYS YOU'VE EVER SEEN THE BALL.
HITS THE UP.
BACK IN THE LEFT HAND, THEY WERE GAINED IT.
THEN IT'S FUMBLED AGAIN IN THE BACKFIELD AND ANOTHER TURNOVER BY BUFORD.
AND THEN WE SEE THE SCREEN PASS.
AND AGAIN WE GET A GREATLY BLOCK BY THE OFFENSIVE LINEMAN AND HERE YOU HAVE A BIG TIME PLAYER.
MAKING A BIG TIME PLAY IN A BIG TIME.
GAME 63 YARDS RIGHT THERE BY DARIUS WASHINGTON TO GIVE CALHOUN THE 10-3 LEAD 312 TO GO IN THE HALF, BUT THEN BEAUFORT SET ON THE TOSH PITCH.
YEAH.
WE GOT WHAT YOU GOT AND WE'RE GOING TO GO FIVE YARDS, MORE 68 YARDS BY CJ, MORE TO PICK THEM UP AND PUT THEM DOWN, TO TIE US UP AT 10:00.
LET'S SEND IT DOWNSTAIRS TO LINDSAY, THEORY WITH A LAMP.
COACH COACH, COULD YOU HAVE ASKED ANYTHING MORE OF YOUR DEFENSE ARE THE FIRST HALF, YOU KNOW, IT'S THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL GAME, AND THIS IS THE WAR IN THE TRENCHES.
I GUARANTEE YOU THAT AND I'M PROUD OF MY KIDS PLAYING HARD THE FIRST HALF.
WE MADE A COUPLE OF MISTAKES, BUT WE MADE SOME CLAYS TO.
WE'VE GOT 24 MINUTES.
GOOD LUCK COACH.
THANKS GUYS.
LET'S GO BACK UP TO YOU.
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE.
IN THIS ONE, THESE 24 MINUTES TO DECIDE THE ENTIRE SEASON FOR BUFORD AND CALHOUN PRESSURE MOUNTING ON BOTH SIDES.
NO DOUBT BUFORD, OF COURSE EXPECTING TO IN A GAME LIKE THIS, WITH THE REPUTATION THAT THE WOLVES HAVE IS THE, THEY'LL WEAR YOU DOWN OVER 48 MINUTES AND THAT'S WHAT JESS SIMPSON AND THE GANG IS HOPING CAN HAPPEN.
ONE MORE TIME, BUFORD WON THE TOSS, THEY DEFERRED TO THE SECOND HALF SO THEY WILL GET THE FOOTBALL HERE AS WE BEGIN.
THE THIRD QUARTER FLY AND THE SECOND HALF KICKOFF.
INTO THE ENDZONE FOR THE TOUCHBACK.
TAKE A LOOK AT OUR FIRST HALF NUMBERS AND CERTAINLY THE TOTAL YARDS FOR CALHOUN.
JUMP OUT AT YOU TO 15 BUT CALHOUN WITH 162 AND I'M LOOKING ALL THE WAY DOWN ABOUT COLUMN NUMBER FIVE, TURNOVERS BUFORD TO CALHOUN.
NOTHING.
THAT WAS MY BIGGEST ONE RIGHT THERE.
YEAH.
THE THING THAT STANDS OUT TO ME, IS YOU HAVE TWO TEAMS THAT AVERAGE ABOUT 45 POINTS, A GAME, AND YET WE'RE AT A 10-10 TIE.
TELLS YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF DEFENSE IN A GAME.
LIKE THIS HALFTIME STATS FOR SPONSORED BY A THE FARM BUREAU GEORGIA, THANKS FOR BEING SUPPORTERS OF THE GHSA AND GPB.
SO HERE COME THE WOLVES 1ST AND 10 FROM THEIR OWN 20.
CLAY ROLLING THROWING AND IT IS COMPLETE OUT TO THE 32 YARD LINE.
THAT TIME IT WAS MIKEY BART.
THE TIGHT END NUMBER 44, MADE THE RECEPTION, ANOTHER BIG YOUNGSTERS, 63 231 JUNIOR, LIKE, THIS WAS COMING BACK.
IT'S AN INCOMPLETION, WE ARE GOING TO SAY INCOMPLETE, BUT THAT PLAY WAS A HALF-TIME ADJUSTMENT, I'M PRETTY SURE THAT SOMEBODY SAT DOWN WITH CHRISTIAN AND HIS OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR OR ELSE.
HE YOU KNOW, HE DECIDED YOU KNOW WE NEED TO GET THE BALL IN THE AIR ON THE FIRST DOWN A LITTLE BIT AND TRY TO TRY TO LOOSEN UP THIS CALHOUN DEFENSE.
BUFORD USES THEIR TIGHT ENDS, VERY EFFECTIVELY IN THE, IN THE PASSING GAME.
IT'S ALWAYS OFF, USUALLY, ALWAYS OFF PLAY ACTION.
THE GIVE IS TO JOHNSON.
TO THE 26-YARD LINE.
ANDRE JOHNSON SEVEN CARRIES 454 YARDS IN THE FIRST HALF.
ONCE AGAIN, NO SURPRISE BEHIND THAT BIG BEEF.
ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, ALEXANDER 335 HILL 275.
TYLER BURGE.
A VERY SPELT 2:30 IN THE MIDDLE.
YEAH, THIRD AND FIVE IS PROBABLY WHAT CALHOUN WANT.
SOME BUFORD DOESN'T LOCK, YOU KNOW THAT YOU COULD DOESN'T PARTICULARLY WANT TO BE THROWING THE BALL ON THIRD DOWN.
AND THE INCOMPLETION THERE TO BEGIN WITH.
I THINK PUT THEM IN A LITTLE BIT OF A HOLE THAT'S GOT A SEAL BY CALHOUN DENIES.
ANDRE JOHNSON READ ALLEN AGAIN.
CALHOUN'S DONE.
A GREAT JOB OF KEEPING BUFORD OFF BALANCE ON THE DEFENSIVE SIDE OF THE BALL AND HERE AGAIN YOU KNOW WE'RE GOING TO SEE THAT UP FRONT YOU KNOW THEY'RE JUST EXTREMELY QUICK THEY GET OFF BLOCKS AND THINK ABOUT IT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AN OFFENSIVE LINE 3 35 TO 75 231 8888 IN THE FRONT THREE FOUR, CALHOUN 242 2195 RIGHT?
THE TROLLIDAYS PUNT IS A DANDY HITS OF THE 22 ON TOUCH TO WILL BE DOWNED AT THAT.
22-YARD LINE, WHAT A PUNT BY DAVID PETRONI, 50 YARDS.
WE'RE GOING TO SEE A LITTLE FRUSTRATION HERE ON THE PART OF BUFORD.
I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A PERSONAL FOUL AND LIKE MAY NEGATE A GREAT PUNT FLAG THROWN BACK AT THE 30-YARD LINE.
37 TO BE EXACT.
JAMES ARNOLD HAS TO HUSTLE BACK TO GET THE PENALTY STRAIGHT AND HE'LL REPORT TO US.
AFTER THE PLAY PERSONAL FOUL ON THE DEFENSE, 15-YARD PENALTY FIRST DOWN, SO THAT'LL BRING IT OUT TO THE 37, WHICH GIVES CALHOUN A LITTLE MORE BREATHING ROOM THAN THEY WOULD HAVE ORIGINALLY HAD IN THIS SITUATION.
TAYLOR LAMB BRINGS THE YELLOW JACKETS UP TO THE LINE.
HE'S 10 OF 18 IN THE AIR FOR 128 YARDS.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT CALHOUN WOULD HAVE WANTED.
THEY HAD TO KICK OFF THE BEAUFORT TO GET A THREE AND OUT AND IN TO GET THE BALL TO 37 IS REALLY BIG FOR THEM HERE.
LOOKS LIKE DYLAN LEE'S TRYING TO MASK A BLITZ.
AGAIN, GET A LITTLE HELP.
INCOMPLETE LOOKING FOR BEN LAMB IS COUSIN ON THE NEAR SIDE.
SAFE, TO SAY THAT WAS A HURRIED THROW.
ANY TIME WHEN YOU'VE GOT DYLAN LEE COMING OUT OF YOUR PERIPHERAL VISION, ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, YOU'RE GOING TO WANT TO GET RID OF IT IN A HURRY.
ALL RIGHT, TOP OF THE SCREEN YOU'RE GOING TO SEE DYLAN LEE COMING IN RUSH, RUSH, RUSH GETTING RID OF IT.
TIM IS BUFORD GIVE YOU ANY KEYS ON THAT BLITZ.
NOT, THEY REALLY DON'T.
AND I'VE BEEN IMPRESSED WITH WHAT THEY'VE DONE DEFENSIVELY.
THEY CHANGE COVERAGES, VIRTUALLY EVERY PLAY.
YOU KNOW, THEY BRING DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN IN A FOUR-MAN FRONT HERE, THERE IN A THREE-MAN FRONT DROPPING MORE GUYS INTO COVERAGE, AND TRYING TO KEEP IT UNDERNEATH HIM, WHICH IS WHAT THEY JUST DID, YOU KNOW, BOTH DEFENSIVE COACHES HAVE DONE AN OUTSTANDING GAME AND A GAME PLAN, AND THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE EXECUTING IT VERY WELL BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT.
WE TALKED ABOUT THIS CHESS MATCH, BOTH OFFENSIVE, AND DEFENSIVELY, AND THEN IT RAMPS UP THAT MUCH MORE BECAUSE OF HALFTIME ADJUSTMENTS BECAUSE YOU CAME IN KNOWING WHAT YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW, RIGHT?
AND NOW YOU THINK, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING ELSE AND YOU HAVE TO GAUGE WHAT YOU THINK, YOU KNOW, AT HALFTIME VERSUS WHAT YOU CAME INTO THE GAME WITH, I THINK IN GAME 15, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE SOME HALFTIME ADJUSTMENTS.
YOU'RE PROBABLY MINIMUM.
IT'S JUST POLISHING UP A FEW THINGS AND, AND IN SOME CASES YOU'RE GOING BACK TO THINGS, YOU MAY HAVE DONE A FEW WEEKS EARLIER.
WE WILL SEE WHAT BUFORD CAN DO HERE DEFENSIVELY HERE.
THEY'RE GOING TO BRING THREE DROP EVERYBODY INTO COVERAGE.
AND A PASS IS COMPLETE FOR A CALHOUN FIRST DOWN.
I'VE ALREADY DROPPED IT.
HEARD TRYING TO.
YES, IT IS AN INCOMPLETE PASS.
YEP, IT WAS A GREAT THROW BY LAMBOY RIGHT ON THE BUTTON TO BEND.
LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENED AT THE END OF THIS PLAY.
TRYING TO DROP IT RIGHT IN AND THE ZONE, YOU CAN'T THROW IT ANY BETTER THAN THAT.
HOW IS RAKED OUT OF HIS ARMS?
YEAH, I THINK THE RECEIVER JUST TOOK HIS EYES OFF THE BALL THERE FOR A MINUTE AND LOOK AND IT WAS PROBABLY LOOKING AT THE COVERAGE TO SEE WHO'S GOING TO MAKE A HIT.
THAT'S EASY TO DO IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD.
C CHAIN MORE WITH THE RIGHT HAND.
COMING AROUND THE EDGE TO KNOCK IT.
LOOSE ROADS WITH THE PUNT.
YEAH.
AND AGAIN, BUFORD DOESN'T BRING ANY PRESSURE, IT'S GOING TO THEY'RE JUST CONTENT TO GET THE BALL BACK, FAIR CATCH AT THE 18.
LET'S GET DOWN TO THE FIELD AND LINDSAY.
ALL RIGHT GUYS, WELL I'M HERE WITH A SPECIAL GUEST CONGRESSMAN OF THE 11TH DISTRICT BILL GREGORY NOW.
PHIL, YOU REPRESENT CALHOUN TELL ME ABOUT THIS GAME SO FAR.
THE YOUR GUYS ARE PUT UP A PRETTY GOOD FIGHT.
WELL, LINDSAY, THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT GAME AND I JUST ARRIVED FROM WASHINGTON ABOUT TWO HOURS AGO, REALIZE THAT THEY WILL PLAY.
AND I TOLD MY STAFF, HEY, GET ME DOWN THERE.
I'VE GOT TO SEE THIS GAME BECAUSE I THINK THIS IS GOING TO BE THE END OF THE STREET FOR BUFORD.
WE'RE GOING TO FINALLY BRING THAT TITLE BACK TO GORDON COUNTY AND CALHOUN.
HAVE REPRESENTED THAT AREA FOR QUITE A WHILE.
NOW THEY'RE GREAT PEOPLE.
THEY HAVE A GREAT PROGRAM.
YOU COULDN'T HAVE ASKED FOR A BETTER HALF, GREAT COACHING TRADITION, GREAT HIGH SCHOOLS AND I'M REALLY PROUD OF THEM STRAIGHT TO THE FROM THE AIRPORT TO THE DOME.
IF THIS TEAM COMES HOME WITH A WIN, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO THE COMMUNITY?
WELL, WE'RE SITTING UP THERE ON THE 30-YARD LINE, JUST BEYOND US AS WE SPEAK AND THEY ARE SALT OF THE EARTH, PEOPLE, THE WHOLE COMMUNITY IS HERE, YOU KNOW, WHEN THAT COUNTY IS A LOT BIGGER THAN GORDON COUNTY AND WHEN YOU HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS, I THINK THE WHOLE TOWN.
MAYBE SHUTS DOWN.
I HOPE THE BANKS ARE BEING GUARDED PRETTY SAFELY TONIGHT AND GORDON COUNTY, BUT THIS IS GOING TO BRING A LOT OF SPIRIT.
AND A LOT OF SATISFACTION TO A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE WORKED VERY HARD AND YOU CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT THE BACKING OF YOUR COMMUNITY.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR FEELING LIKE IT BACK TO ENJOYING THE GAME.
I WILL LINDSEY.
THANKS.
GO YELLOW.
JACKETS BACK UPSTAIRS AND THE YELLOWJACKET DEFENSE IS DOING A TERRIFIC JOB ON THIS PARTICULAR SERIES.
IF CALHOUN MEN CAN WIN, IT IT'LL BE THEIR FIRST DATE TITLE AND 59 YEAR 1952.
AND, CONGRESSMAN GINGRICH WAS RIGHT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO GORDON COUNTY.
INTO THAT PARTICULAR PART OF NORTHWEST, GEORGIA, YOU TALK ABOUT THE LAMB TRADITION.
YOU TALK ABOUT THE YELLOWJACKET TRADITION AND FILLER, EVEN GOING ALL THE WAY BACK AND TALK TO CHRIS, DURHAM RECENTLY, WITH GEORGIA AND TALK ABOUT THE PEDIGREE, AND IT'S JUST GETTING TOO, WEAK, 15, CONSISTENTLY OVER, AND OVER AGAIN.
THEY'VE DONE GREAT THINGS IN CALVO THIRD AND LONG.
COMPLETE AND KNOCKED OUT ABOUT SHY OF THE FIRST DOWN CALHOUN FORCES, THE PUNT.
JOHN TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT.
THERE'S NOTHING BETTER THAN FRIDAY NIGHT IN THESE SMALL COMMUNITIES AND BRUSH.
AND THESE ARE TWO GREAT COMMUNITIES.
THEY GET BEHIND THESE PROGRAMS BEHIND THE COACHES, YOU KNOW, FROM A COACHING STANDPOINT, THAT'S A DREAM JOB TO BE ABLE TO BE AT A PLACE LIKE THIS WHERE THEY SUPPORT YOUR SO WELL.
CLAY JOHNSON IS THE DEEP MAN, BUT TRANI WITH UPON THIS WILL BE A ROLLER INSIDE THE 30 TO THE 23-YARD LINE UPON WITH THE ROLE OF 52 YARDS.
HERE'S YOUR FLASHBACK FROM THE LAST THREE YEARS.
HERE'S CODY GETS HAD A FOR TOUCHDOWN DE 4521 VICTORY FOR BUFORD OVER CALHOUN IN 2008 THE FOLLOWING YEAR 2009 FAMILIAR NAME TO THE FOLKS WHO PLAY THIS BUILDING JESSEL CURRY CATCHES THE TOUCHDOWN PASS HERE ON THE OUT.
BUFORD WINS TWO IN A ROW THAN LAST YEAR HERE.
INSIDE THE GEORGIA DOME.
THEY HAD TO GO TO EXTRA TIME AND IT WENT INTO THE HANDS OF DOMINIQUE'S.
SWOOP SWOOP SWOOP SIN 3124 FINAL IN OVERTIME LAST YEAR AND THAT'S HOW BUFORD GOT THEIR FIRST THREE AND THESE GUYS HAVE BEEN GOING AT IT FOR A LONG TIME.
7:51 REMAINING IN THE PERIOD BEFORE THE SNAP FALSE.
START ON THE OFFENSE FIVE YARD PENALTY FIRST DOWN.
WELL, THESE PROCEDURE PENALTIES CAN REALLY JUELIA DRIVE.
NOW YOU'RE BACKED UP 15.
SO IT WILL BE FIRST AND 15 BACK AT THE 18 YARD LINE.
7:51 REMAINING.
THIRD QUARTER FROM THE GEORGIA DOME IN A 10/10 GAME.
FIVE PENALTIES AGAINST CAL COOK CALHOUN FOR 35 YARDS AND ANOTHER WHISTLE CALHOUN LAST YEAR, HAD FIVE OFFENSIVE PENALTIES FOR 45 YARDS.
THEY HAD EIGHT OVERALL LAST YEAR.
TOM OUT CALHOUN.
THAT STOPS THE CLOCK WAS.
751 DEPLOY.
THIRD PERIOD.
DOUBLE A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME FROM ATLANTA, 10 10.
THE FOOTBALL HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS ON GPB ARE MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY THE GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION WHICH THANKS GEORGIA FARM BUREAU FOR THEIR SUPPORT.
THERE IS MANY PROGRAMS, GEORGIA HIGH, SCHOOL ASSOCIATION IS TRAINING, TOMORROW'S LEADERS AT GEORGIA FARM BUREAU.
WE ALSO PROMOTE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FARM BUREAU SERVICE MEMBERS THROUGH HOSTING SERVICES, FROM INSURANCE, TO HEALTHCARE TO POPULAR DISCOUNT PROGRAM.
DELIVERED THROUGH YOUR LOCAL FARM BUREAU OFFICE FARM BUREAU BENEFITING YOUR COMMUNITY AND STATE.
HELPING YOU IS WHAT WE DO BEST.
WELCOME BACK TO THE GEORGIA DOME, OUR COVERAGE OF CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND, CONTINUE.
IT'S ONE OF THE GREAT STORIED PROGRAMS FOR DOWNTON ABBEY AND THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEMS, AN EMMY AWARD-WINNING PROGRAM.
IT IS 1916 WORLD WAR.
ONE HAS SHAKEN, DOWNTON ABBEY TO, IT'S VERY FOUNDATIONS AS A WAY OF LIFE FOREVER, BLASTED APART, BOTH HEROES AND VILLAINS, STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE IN FORGE AHEAD.
MAGGIE SMITH HUGH, BONNEVILLE ELIZABETH MCGOVERN, RETURN OF THE STELLAR CAST ON CHORUS SEASON ONE IN DECEMBER ON GPB.
THAT CALHOUN TRYING TO GO DOWNTOWN ON THAT LAST BLOWING.
IT IS A GAIN OUT TO THE 38 YARD LINE, A 20 YARD PICKUP.
SO CALHOUN COMES OUT OF THE TIMEOUT AND THEY TURN IN A BIG GAINER.
YOU DON'T GET MANY EXPLOSIVE PLAYS AGAINST BUFORD BUT THEY GOT ONE RIGHT THERE.
YOU DON'T BUFORD.
ONCE AGAIN BROUGHT THE BLITZ AND CALHOUN DID A TERRIFIC JOB OF PICKING IT UP LAMB TO THE 40 GAIN OF TWO, MAKES IT SECOND AND EIGHT.
ONCE AGAIN, THERE'S THAT ACTIVITY THAT CREATES THE OPENINGS IN THE CENTER OF THE FIELD THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLY ON CALHOUN, TRYING TO SPREAD THE FIELD OFF TO THE EDGES, TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY CAN GET THAT ACTION THAT WORKED IN THE FIRST HALF.
YEAH, WHAT BUFORD'S DOING IS THEY'RE PLAYING TIGHT ON THE CORNERS, THERE MANNING UP, BUT THEY'VE DROPPED THE SAFETY'S A LITTLE BIT DEEPER.
YOU CAN SEE ON THE OPEN SIDE.
NOW THEY'VE DONE THE SAME THING AGAIN AND ONCE A RECEIVER GETS PAST THE LINEBACKER WHO'S IN COVERAGE, IT LEAVES IT LEAVES A LITTLE OPENING HERE.
INCOMPLETE AS THE STRONG SAFETY JALEN BUYS WAS OUT OF BOUNDS WHEN HE INTERCEPTED THE PASS, THIRD DOWN COMING.
THE GUYS, YOU GET TO ANOTHER CRITICAL THIRD DOWN, I'M KEEPING AN EYE ON THAT CLOCK AND THERE'S STILL SEVEN TO GO IN THIS THIRD QUARTER BUT, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE THE KINDS OF PLAYS IF YOU COULD HOLD AND FORCE THE PUNT, IF YOU CAN CONVERT A THIRD AND LONG, MIGHT BE THE DETERMINING FACTOR.
WELL THAT'S WHAT WE'VE SEEN.
THE WHOLE SECOND HALF WE KEEP SEEING THIRD AND LONG, YOU KNOW, THIRD AND FIVE THIRD AND SEVEN, YOU KNOW, AND IN THOSE SITUATIONS SHE'S JUST SO HARD TO, YOU KNOW, GET THE FIRST DOWN THERE.
THIS IS GOING TO BE CLOSED AND BEN WAS STRUGGLING TO GET ANOTHER COUPLE OF YARDS.
THIS IS GOING TO BE ULTRA CLOTHES.
GOING TO SAY HOW GOOD YOUR EYES ARE HERE.
JOHN ALL RIGHT, THERE'S THE CATCH AND JALEN.
MY STANDS HIM UP.
RIGHT AT THE MARKER.
THERE'S YOUR OTHER LOOK AND FLANKER SCREEN.
5, YELLOW JACKETS, SWARMING AROUND AGAINST TWO AND THEN THREE.
THERE'S THE MY STAND-UP AT THE 48.
THIS IS ULTRA CLOSE.
I THINK WAS BEING NICE.
WHAT'S CLOSER THAN ULTRA CLOSE?
YOU KNOW, THAT'S A GREAT PLAY BY JAYLON MAIS TO STAND HIM UP AND NOT GIVE THAT EXTRA YARD.
I, YOU KNOW, IF HE'S GOT IT OR IF HE DOESN'T IT'S GOING TO BE BY PROBABLY AN AIR BALL.
HALF THE FOOTBALL.
YOU THINK LIKE LESS THAN THAT?
JUST RIGHT, YOU GOT IT FIRST DOWN FOR CALHOUN.
GOOD EYES.
WELL, THIS IS JUST THE TYPE OF PLAYER WORTH MENTIONING A MOMENT AGO.
YES, YEP.
CONVERT A THIRD AND SEVEN.
EVEN THOUGH YOU CAN'T HAVE THIRD AND SEVEN, THIRD AND A TRADITIONALLY AGAINST BUFORD AND CONVERT, THEY CALLED THE RIGHT PLAY ON THE FLANKER SCREEN THERE AND THAT'S HUGE AS WE HIT THE MIDPOINT OF THE THIRD IN A GAME THAT REALLY HAS TURNED INTO PUNCH COUNTERPUNCH.
THEY'RE COMING WITH A BLITZ AND GUM STRAIGHT MAN COVERAGE.
LAMB HAS A BLOCKER BUT NO WAY TO RUN ON THE NEAR SIDE.
THERE'S OUR VIEW, IT'S A BACK TO ME.
A LOT OF SCRIMMAGE THE 48-YARD LINE.
SECOND AND TEN AND YOUR POINT TIM EARLIER ABOUT THESE OFFENSES, THAT GENERATE SO MANY POINTS.
SO MANY YARDS CALHOUN AVERAGING, JUST UNDER 45 POINTS, A GAME HELD IN CHECK BY THE BUFORD OFFENSE.
BOTH OFFENSES TEND TO SCORE IN BUNCHES AND THEY JUST KNOW EACH OTHER SO.
WELL NOW THAT, YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE THEY'RE ABLE TO COUNTER THOSE OFFENSES ANOTHER PIC OF THE NEAR SIDE, BUT IT IS INCOMPLETE.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A FIRST DOWN.
WE'VE GOT ANOTHER PERSONAL FOUL ON BUFORD.
LOOK AT THE GREAT EFFORT THAT RYAN DILLARD HAS.
IT'S GOING TO COME RIGHT AT YOU, 28 IN GOLD, THE JUMP AND HE TRIES TO GET THE FOOT DOWN IN TIME, BUT THE BACK END OF THE NUMBERS, THE BACK OF THE FRONT ENDED UP GETTING DOWN OUT OF BOUNDS FIRST LIFETIME.
THAT'S ANOTHER WAY TO GET A FIRST DOWN AND, AND THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT DRIVE COACHES CRAZY.
THEY DO YOU KNOW, TURNOVERS AND THEN, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T ACCOUNT FOR THESE.
AND IN THAT SITUATION THAT I SEE THERE, TAKING THE VAN CLARK OUT, HE, YOU KNOW, HE JUST CELEBRATED A LITTLE TOO MUCH HAD A FEW THINGS TO SAY TO THE QUARTERBACK, WHEN HE LEFT THE FIELD AND IT HAS COST THEM.
THERE'S COACH SIMPSON TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED WITH LEEKIE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED, JUST WON'T PUT UP THAT VERY LONG.
SO THAT'S TWO STARTERS OVER BY THE COACH BACK AND CLARK YOU CAN'T KEEP GIVING CALHOUN OPPORTUNITY LAMBETH.
A BIG HOLE UP THE MIDDLE AND RUNS IT DOWN TO THE 26 FOR ANOTHER CALHOUN FIRST DOWN AND ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD.
YES.
HERE IT IS, YOU'RE LOOKING RIGHT?
AND THERE IT IS, THE BIG HOLE.
THOUGHT ABOUT CUTTING IT BACK INSIDE TO GET FIRST DOWN YARDAGE INSTEAD.
ENDED UP GOING TO THE MARKER.
IT'S GOING TO GO TRAVELING FROM RIGHT TO LEFT AND THAT IS A LOT OF REAL ESTATE TO PLAY WITH THEIR.
LOOKS LIKE IT MAY HAVE BEEN A QUARTERBACK DRAW AND I THINK IN THE FIRST HALF, BEAUFORT HAD A LOT OF SUCCESS, BRINGING THE BLITZ OFF THE EDGE, AND THAT'S THE WAY THEY'VE COUNTERED.
IT LAND FIRES, RYERSON, COMPLETE TO THE 15, GREAT THROW TO THE OUTSIDE SHOULDER.
THAT TIME ONLY WERE RYERSON.
COULD CATCH IT.
LET'S TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT IT RIGHT HERE.
IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU, DOWN LOW, THERE'S LAMB.
THERE'S RYERSON TO THE OUTSIDE SHOULDER AND OUT OF BOUND.
ALMOST OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 15.
AND ANOTHER LOOK RIGHT THERE.
NICE PASSING CATCH.
THESE ARE BETTER FOR OTHERS BY TAYLOR.
THIS HAVE, I FELT LIKE HE WAS A LITTLE OUT OF SYNC IN THE FIRST HALF.
HERE COMES THE RICE DOWN TO THE GOAL LINE.
TOUCHDOWN CALHOUN.
THIS SCORE COMES OFF OF A MINUTE, MISTAKE ON THE PART OF BEAUFORT AND THAT THAT PERSONAL FOUL COST THEM AND NOW THEY'VE JUST GONE FOR TWO AND GOT IT AND CALHOUN TAKES THE LEAD.
FIRST TIME THE TOUCHDOWN RUN BY TAYLOR LAMB AND NOW THE TWO-POINT CONVERSION.
NOW WE SAW THIS EARLIER WHEN THEY SCORED A TOUCHDOWN, WHAT THEY'LL DO IS THEY'LL LINE UP THE SWINGING GATE.
AND IF THEY SEEM NUMBERS THEN THEY'LL GO AHEAD AND RUN THE TWO-POINT PLAY.
THEY DIDN'T SEE NUMBERS THE FIRST TIME AND THAT'S WHY THEY KICKED THE POINT AFTER.
IN THIS PARTICULAR INSTANCE, THEY HAD NUMBERS AND IT'S JUST USUALLY A SIMPLE RUN INTO THE END ZONE AND THEY GET 8 AND THAT COULD COME UP BIG LATER ON.
OH, ABSOLUTELY.
IT CAN.
AND I THINK THEY ARE AGAIN.
YOU HAVE BUFORD, WHO'S PROBABLY STILL REELING FROM THE EVENTS THAT JUST HAPPENED.
YOU KNOW, IN, NO, HURRY TO LINE UP AND AND CALHOUN TOOK ADVANTAGE OF IT.
ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO.
THE DIRTY WATER.
IT'S LIKE, AS SOON AS THEY SEE NUMBERS, THEY'LL COUNT.
AND IF THEY'VE GOT ONE OR TWO MORE ON THAT SIDE OF THE SWINGING GATE, THEY JUST GO AHEAD QUICK SNAP, IT RUN IT IN AND THAT'S YOUR TWO POINT CONVERSION, RIGHT?
ABSOLUTELY HUGE.
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT SERIES COMING UP.
BUFORD NEEDS TO RESPOND TO THIS, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T WHEN YOU HAVE A RUNNING OFFENSE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE GAME, YOU DON'T WANT TO GO DOWN TWO SCORES.
AT EIGHT POINT LEAD.
NOW FOR CALHOUN A 77 YARD DRIVE, NINE PLAYS 15 YARD TOUCHDOWN RUN BY THE QUARTERBACK THAT MAN TAYLOR LAMB AND THEN THE TWO-POINT CONVERSION.
BUT GUYS, YOU'RE SO RIGHT, THAT BIG PERSONAL FOUL PENALTY OPENED THE DOOR THAT WILL BE A TOUCHBACK.
SO NOW THE PRESSURE REALLY SHIFTS TO THE BUFORD WOLVES IT DOES.
AND WHAT BUFORD NEEDS OFFENSIVELY NOW, IS SOME RHYTHM, THEY'RE OUT OF SYNC, THEY CAN'T DECIDE IF THEY WANT TO THROW IT ON FIRST, RUN IT ON FIRST.
I THINK WHAT THEY'VE REALLY GOT TO DO IS COMMIT TO RUNNING THE FOOTBALL AND BE PATIENT WITH THE RESULTS AND CONVERSELY FOR CALHOUN.
THEY'VE GOT THE LEAD NOW.
IF THEY CAN COME UP WITH A BIG DEFENSIVE STAND BOY, UNCLE MOMENTUM REALLY SHIFTS TO THE TO THE GOLD AND BLACK WILL THINK ABOUT WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT, THE OPEN DO WHAT YOU DO.
BUFORD CANNOT ESCAPE THAT.
BUT ONCE AGAIN YOU GIVE A TEAM THE OPPORTUNITY TO HANG AROUND CALHOUN TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.
SO HE J MORE ON THE TOSS.
MAKES IT OUT TO ABOUT THE 32.
NOW LET'S GO DOWN TO THE FIELD AND NIKKI.
HEY GUYS AFTER THAT, TWO POINT CONVERSION SENIOR LINEBACKER DYLAN LEE WHO IS THE HEART OF THIS DEFENSE GUYS.
YOU CAN SEE THE FRUSTRATION ON HIS FACE.
HE IS A TRUE COMPETITOR AND HE DID NOT LIKE THE OUTCOME OF THAT TWO-POINT CONVERSION.
WHEN HE CAME TO THE SIDELINE HE WENT IMMEDIATELY TO COACH SIMPSON.
HE WAS FRUSTRATED GUYS.
YOU CAN SEE IT ALL OVER HIS FACE.
COACH TOLD HIM TO SETTLE DOWN.
IT'S OKAY.
WE GOT KEEP PLAYING.
LET'S GET THIS MOMENTUM.
GOING IN THE SECOND HALF.
THROW HIS COMPLETE, BUT NOT ENOUGH FOR THE FIRST DOWN ON A FIRST AND TEN.
SO BUFORD WILL HAVE IT NOW SECOND DOWN AND ABOUT 42, VERY NICE, PURSE DOWN PLACE CALLED BY COACH HONEYCUTT, YOU KNOW, THEY OPEN UP WITH THE TOSS THEY MOTION AND THEY OUTNUMBER CALHOUN AT THE POINT OF ATTACK, THEN THEY COME RIGHT BACK AND THROW THE THROW THE BUBBLE SCREEN TO THE OUTSIDE RECEIVER.
PLEASE CHANGING THE PLAY HERE.
YOU SEE THE PULLBACK MOVE.
HE'S GOING TO REDIRECT TO PLAY FROM THE PROBABLY THE RIGHT BACK TO THE LEFT AND THERE IS A TERRIFIC TACKLE ON WILSON.
IT'S GOOD THING.
YOU GOT HIM TO GUYS CUZ HE WAS GOING TO THE HOUSE ON THAT ONE.
THERE'S YOUR TOSS PITCH, LEFT HAND SIDE FINDS THE OPENING, GREAT, ANKLE TACKLE RIGHT THERE BY ALEX KIRBY, WHO'S BEEN ON A LOT OF PLAYS ON A LOT OF DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE BALL TODAY.
KIRBY 6-FOOT 215 POUNDS.
ONE OF THOSE THREE GUYS THAT THEY CALLED THE HEART AND SOUL OF THAT DEFENSE COMMITTED TO TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA.
FOUR MINUTES TO GO THIRD QUARTER CALHOUN, LEADS 1810.
AND A GOOD STOP ON FIRST DOWN.
NOW THAT'S OKAY.
YOU KNOW, THE RUN GAME, IF YOU'RE COMMITTED TO IT, IT'S GOING TO BE UGLY AT TIMES.
YOU JUST CAN'T CAN'T GIVE UP ON HIM.
BUFORD WON'T BECAUSE THE SAME TIME THOSE ONES AND TWOS THAT YOU'RE GETTING NOW BECAUSE YOU CONTINUE TO POUND AND POUND AND POUND TURNED INTO 45 AND TOUCHDOWNS LATER IT DOES AND BUFORD I HAVEN'T SEEN THEM DO IT TONIGHT BUT THEY DO A REALLY NICE JOB OF RUNNING A LITTLE BOOT WITH A DELAY SLIP TO THE TIGHT ENDS AND THAT HELPS TO SET THOSE UP.
EXACT PRESSURE, THERE'S PROBABLY THE PLATE 5040.
I'VE MISSED TACKLE AND DOWN TO THE 31 YARD LINE.
GREAT JOB, KIRK FREITAG, EVAN CALLED HIS NAME TOO OFTEN TODAY BUT HE COMES UP, HUGE.
JOHN, AND JUST SAID A MINUTE AGO, YOU KNOW, WHERE HIS FREITAG AND HERE HE IS.
AGAIN, THIS IS SET UP BY THE RUN, THE PLAY ACTION.
YOU KNOW, IT ALLOWS THE LIAO'S THE DEFENSE TO SINK IN ON THE RUN, THEY HAVE TO RESPECT IT AND THEN THAT CLEANS UP THE TIGHT END ON THE EDGE WIDE OPEN IN SPACE THERE.
AND HE HAD A BLOCKER THERE FOR HIM BUT NO ONE WAS AROUND.
KURT FREITAG, JUST GIVE IT ALABAMA OVER FLORIDA ON MONDAY.
UNDER 3:00 TO GO IN THE THIRD PERIOD.
THE TOSS TO CJ MORE WRAPPED UP, THAT'S GOOD PURSUED ON THE PART OF CALHOUN.
AGAIN IF WE CAN SEE THAT AGAIN THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT YOU KNOW BUFORD USES MOTION TO GET PEOPLE AT THE POINT OF ATTACK SO THEY CAN W THERE AND HERE THEY'RE GOING TO MOTION THE TIGHT END AND TRY TO OVERLOAD THE EDGE.
HE GETS A GOOD KICK OUT THE FULLBACK, THEY'RE ACTUALLY WENT FOR THE KICK.
HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LEADING UP THROUGH.
THAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE IN THE PLAY.
HEATH EVERETT IN A DEFENSE, GETTING LATE AND DO A THIRD QUARTER.
LET'S SEE WHAT THEIR CONDITIONING ISN'T A GAME.
THAT IS THIS COMPETITIVE GOOD HIT AND STICK AT THE 30-YARD LINE.
WILSON DENIED.
IT'LL BE THIRD AND LONG.
YOU HAVE TO WONDER IF THIS IS FOUR-DOWN TERRITORY FOR BUFORD.
LET'S SEE HOW MANY THEY HAD IN THE BOX HERE.
THEY HAD EVERYBODY AND THEY WERE LOOKING TO KEYON WILSON RIGHT THERE.
YOU SEE WHO COMES OUT WITH THE TACKLE TRENT, FRICKS GRAB HIM FROM THE WAIST AND BEHIND, MAKING SURE HE WASN'T GONNA GO ANYWHERE.
SEVEN CARRIES FOR DONE TRAVIA'S WOLFSON, 38 YARDS BUCKET, A HALF TO GO IN THE THIRD.
THERE'S A BOOT AGAIN.
CLAY PIVOTS KNOW WHERE TO GO.
IT'S FOURTH DOWN.
NOW, WE'LL GET THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION.
THE COACH JUST HAD IT.
HERE IT IS.
THERE'S YOUR PLAY ACTION IN THE ROLE SEES.
NOTHING CUTS IT BACK.
TRIES TO CREATE SOMETHING AND MAYBE GOT A YARD.
YEAH, CALHOUN, DIDN'T DIDN'T REALLY BUY IT ON THE PLAY ACTION BEING THIRD AND NINE, YOU KNOW, THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO RESPECT THE RUN.
THEY GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE OVER THERE TO THE EDGE.
THIS IS A CRITICAL PLAY FOR BUFORD.
ALEX KIRBY WAS SHADOWING FREITAG ON THAT LAST PLAY.
FOURTH AND EIGHT, CLAY WORKS OUT OF THE GUN MORE IN MOTION.
LOOKS TO PASS INCOMPLETE FOR THE TIGHT END BART AND CALHOUN TAKES OVER ON DOWN.
I DON'T KNOW IF TRIP FOR IT'S GOT HIS HAND ON THAT OR NOT.
IT WAS HARD TO TELL FROM UP HERE BUT HE HAD GREAT COVERAGE ON A GUY WHO'S A LOT BIGGER THAN HIM.
HE MADE A SUPER PLAY HERE, YOU SEE HIM IN LOCKUP IN MAN COVERAGE WITH THE TIGHT END.
HE DIDN'T, BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE TO.
WHEN HE WAS THERE, HE WAS BETWEEN THE QUARTERBACK AND THE RECEIVER, AND DID A NICE JOB.
SIX.
1190, GOING UP AGAINST SIX 3235 AT THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD OF THE RUNNING GAME FOR BUFORD, THEY RAN NINE PLAYS FIVE MINUTES.
NO POINTS.
NOW, TAYLOR LAMB SLIDES TO THE 31 CLOCK WINDING DOWN AT THE END OF THE THIRD QUARTER.
I'LL BE SURPRISED IF THEY RUN A PLAY HERE.
I THINK THEY'LL LET THE CLOCK RUN OUT AND TAKE IT INTO THE FOURTH.
TIME IS THEIR FRIEND RIGHT NOW, MUCH OF IT, AS THEY CAN GAIN ON PLAYS.
LIKE THIS, HELP THEM MAINTAIN THE MOMENTUM.
THIRD QUARTER COMES TO AN END.
THEY HOLD UP, FOUR FINGERS, THE ALL-IMPORTANT, FOURTH QUARTER, WHAT THEY'VE BEEN DREAMING FOR IN CALHOUN IS HERE.
THEY'VE GOT THE LEAD OVER MY T. BUFORD WITH 12 MINUTES TO PLAY.
BUT DOUBLE A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AT THE GEORGIA, DOME COMES TO THE 4TH QUARTER ON GPB.
BROADCAST OF THIS PROGRAM IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART.
BY THE FOLLOWING REGIONS BANK IS PROUD TO SPONSOR.
THE DIRECTORS CUP, A YEAR-LONG COMPETITION ENCOMPASSING ALL GIRLS AND BOYS SPORTS AND EVERY REGION IN CLASSIFICATION THROUGHOUT GEORGIA.
THE WINNING SCHOOLS ARE HONORED FOR THEIR SUSTAINED AND OVERALL ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENT.
PLEASE.
JOIN US IN CELEBRATING THIS YEAR'S REGIONS DIRECTORS, CUP WINNERS BECAUSE AT REGIONS BANK, WE BELIEVE IN WORKING KING TOGETHER TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES.
HIS LEADERS IN OUR COMMUNITIES, GEORGE IS LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP.
CORPORATIONS ARE PROUD TO SPONSOR, THE GEORGIA, HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION AND TO HELP OUR STUDENT ATHLETES BECOME, THE LEADERS OF TOMORROW.
GEORGIA'S ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP, CORPORATIONS LIGHTING THE WAY GPB WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING CORPORATIONS FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATION OF HOSPITALITY SUITES FOR THIS WEEKEND'S GHSA CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES.
WE BELIEVE WINNING IS SECONDARY TO LEADERSHIP.
HE'S GOING TO THE CHAMPIONSHIPS.
THAT'S AWESOME.
I NEVER MISS A GAME BECAUSE I DID ON THIS HAND WARMER I KNOW HE'S GOING TO BE WARM ON FRIDAY NIGHTS.
WE GOT THEM TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP.
WE DID.
I GOT IT ON CAMERA.
WE WALK A BIT BACK TO THE GEORGIA, DOME AND THE 2A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, START OF THE FOURTH QUARTER.
IT'S CALHOUN 18 AND BUFORD 10-5.
RATHBUN, JOHN NELSON.
TIM MCFARLIN.
GREAT TO HAVE YOU WITH US AND GENTS.
WE HAVE ENJOYED A MARVELOUS FOOTBALL GAME, BUT HERE WE ARE.
BUFORD ON THE EDGE OF HIGH SCHOOL, HISTORY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
NOBODY'S EVER WON.
FIVE IN A ROW.
YOU SENSE?
THE WEIGHT IS ON THEIR SHOULDERS DOWN EIGHT GOING TO THE FOURTH QUARTER.
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
I THINK SO.
I THINK THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF PRESSURE ON BUFORD SIDELINE THAT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FEEL ON CALHOUN'S.
CALHOUN.
THERE IS NO PRESSURE WHEN YOU'RE THE UNDERDOG AND YOU'VE LOST FOUR STRAIGHT TO THESE GUYS IN THIS GAME.
AND YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GOING TO THROW ALL CAUTION TO THE WIND.
SO WE'LL SEE HOW BUFORD RESPONDS TO THE BEEN IN THE POSITION.
THEY HAVEN'T BEEN IN.
BEFORE WE START THE FOURTH QUARTER WITH CALHOUN AND POSSESSION.
SECOND DOWN, LAMB SCRAMBLING AND THROWS IT AWAY.
NOW WE TALKED ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT THIS FOURTH QUARTER IS, HOW ABOUT THAT EXTRA POINT ON THE BOARD THAT 18, THAT'S AN UNCONVENTIONAL NUMBER THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIGHT AGAINST INGEST, SIMPSONS.
GOING TO HAVE TO DO THAT NOW.
IT'S ALMOST AN UNCONVENTIONAL SITUATION.
HOW MANY TIMES IN THIS SEASON HAS BUFORD GONE FOR TWO?
BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN OUT IN FRONT SO MUCH.
IT'S GET IN AND GET OUT HOW MUCH TWO-POINT PLAY?
DO THEY HAVE IN THEIR PLAYBOOK?
WELL, THE EXCEPTION OF LAST WEEK CARVER, WHERE, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE DOWN AT HALF AND MAINLY BECAUSE OF SOME TURNOVERS.
WHOA, WHAT A PLAY BARRELING THROUGH, COREY, ROGERS FROM HIS OUTSIDE, LIGHT BACKING SPOT, WHAT A TERRIFIC PLIGHT OF FORCED UPON.
THAT'S A BIG-TIME PLAY IN THIS SITUATION IS EXACTLY WHAT BUFORD NEEDED.
THEY NEEDED SOMEBODY ON DEFENSE TO MAKE THIS PLAY AND GET THE BALL BACK INTO THEIR HANDS.
YOU SEE ROGERS, COME IN ON THE STUNT, HE'S GOING TO COME IN FROM THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF THE SCREEN AND GREETS, ALEX URBANO.
NO FACE TO FACE.
CALHOUN PUNT.
ZANE ROADS, KICKS IT FROM HIS 15.
LET'S RIP IT PUNT.
ANOTHER GREAT ONE AND A FAIR CATCH AT THE 30-YARD LINE, 44-YARD PUNT.
NOW, LET'S GO TO JACKIE BRITTAIN AND THE STANDS.
ALL RIGHT, GUYS.
PLEASE JOIN ME RIGHT HERE IS ERICA.
ELLEN, KIMBERLY SYLVIA AND A TON OF OTHER FANS.
YOU GUYS COULD BE ON THE VERGE OF A REALLY BIG WIN IN HISTORY RIGHT NOW.
HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL?
IT WAS GREAT.
THEY DESERVE EVERY BIT OF THIS.
WHAT'S THE ENERGY BEEN?
LIKE, AT SCHOOL ALL WEEK LONG AND EVER, SINCE YOU KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO THE PLAYOFFS.
IT HAPPENED IS NON-STOP GETTING US.
COMES UP TO WIN THIS BECAUSE WE DESERVE THIS AND THIS IS OUR YEAR TO WIN.
WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE RIVALRY.
SOME PEOPLE ARE GLAD THAT IT'S GOING TO BE OVER BECAUSE YOU'LL BE A NEW CLASSIFICATION NEXT YEAR SO YOU WON'T PLAY BEAUFORT AGAIN.
ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT THAT?
YEAH BUT I MEAN WE JUST WANT TO BE BUFORD THIS ONE YEAR SO WE CAN SAY THAT WE DID IT AND YOU KNOW WE DON'T WANT TO LET THIS CHANCE SLIP AWAY.
ALL RIGHT.
WELL YOU GUYS HAVE GOT A LOT OF SCHOOL PRIDE THAT'S WHAT WE LIKE TO SEE WILL TOSS IT BACK UP TO YOU GUYS.
WANT TO PLAY DEFENSIVELY BY ALEX KIRBY?
UNBELIEVABLE.
UNBELIEVABLE.
BOTH OF THESE TEAMS.
THE LISTEN.
THESE KIDS ARE PLAYING SO HARD RIGHT NOW AND BOTH PLACES BOTH.
TEAMS HAVE SO MUCH TO PLAY PARK.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A TERRIFIC FINISH GUYS HERE FOR ONLY ONE SCORE DOWN.
THEY WON'T PANIC, IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF THEY CAN GET A DRIVE HERE AND MOVE THE BALL DOWN THE FIELD PENALTY FLAG.
AND THE PASS IS INCOMPLETE.
ANOTHER PROCEDURE PENALTY FOR AN ILLEGAL SHIFT.
THAT STOPS THE CLOCK WITH 11 MINUTES TO PLAY IN THE GAME.
JUST SIMPSON HEAD COACH PACING THAT BUFORD SIDELINE.
I THINK IT'S ALREADY KICKED IN.
YOU TALK ABOUT JESS SIMPSON BEING THERE WITH THE RELATIONSHIP THAT HE HAS WITH DEXTER WOULD DATING ALL THE WAY BACK TO JESSE'S TIME AT MARIETTA IS A PLAYER COMING BACK AS AN ASSISTANT LEARNING AS A GA AT AUBURN UNIVERSITY.
LEARNED IT DEXTER WOODEN HAS TAKEN OVER AT 96 AND FOR AT BUFORD COMING INTO THIS GAME.
ANOTHER FLAG.
THAT'S WHAT IS IT?
COMPLETE NEARLY INTERCEPTED RIGHT IN THE BREADBASKET OF CLAY JOHNSON.
I DON'T SEE WHAT HAPPENED HERE.
I'M CLICKING THIS.
PROBABLY A HOLDING PENALTY.
HE HAD A LOT OF TIME TO THROW THE FOOTBALL.
REALLY WAS LUCKY THAT BALDING GET PICKED OFF AND LEGAL MOTION ON THE OFFENSE THAT TONY'S DECLINE FOURTH DOWN.
SO HE HAD AN ILLEGAL SHIFT AND ILLEGAL MOTION PENALTY BACK-TO-BACK.
YEAH, GUYS.
THIS JUST GOES BACK TO OVERSEE, A LITTLE UNUSUAL TO SEE BUFORD.
WELL, BACK TO THE REPLAY, YOU KNOW, CALHOUN HAS IN COVERAGE THERE IN THIRD AND LONG.
THEY'RE YOU KNOW, THEY'RE JUST DROPPING FOLKS AND YOU KNOW, WHEN THROW IT AGAIN AGAINST THE TEAM THAT THROWS THE BALL, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE ASKING FOR TROUBLE BECAUSE THEY DO THIS EVERY DAY.
GOING BACK TO WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY, THOUGH, YOU KNOW, THREE PASSES ON THE PART OF BUFORD THREE-AND-OUT.
THAT'S A LITTLE UNUSUAL.
I THEY STILL GOT THAT WONDERFUL RUN GAME, THEY AND PLENTY OF TIME AND THEN JUST DOWN ONE STORE, GREAT PUNT OF 50 YARDS.
FLIPS.
THE PIT FILLED BACK TO THE 20 YARD LINE.
BUT HOW ABOUT THE CALHOUN DEFENSE GUYS?
THEY FORCE A FOURTH DOWN AND OUT AND NOW A THREE AND OUT.
YOU GOT ALEX KIRBY MAKING PLAYS YOU GOT CLAY JOHNSON COMING BACK FROM THE SECONDARY ON THAT ALMOST INTERCEPTION, THE FIRST ALMOST INTERCEPTION, WHICH WAS KIRBY AND CLAY JOHNSON AND THERE'S THE ARCHITECT OF THE BUFORD PROGRAM RIGHT THERE.
DEXTER.
WOULD HE HAS SEEN THE SUCCESS AND BUILT THE SUCCESS FROM HIS DAYS AT MARIETTA COMING OVER TO BUFORD TO START THAT PROGRAM BIRTH TO GET THEM WHERE THEY ARE TODAY.
THERE'S NOT A BETTER GUY IN GEORGIA FOOTBALL AND DEXTER WOULD NOT ONLY IS HE A GREAT COACH, HE'S A GREAT PERSON.
HEMA LABS, THROW INCOMPLETE.
REALLY DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO TIE TO THAT SIDELINE INCOMPLETE.
MAKES IT SECOND AND TEN.
IF YOU'RE JUST JOINING US THIS AFTERNOON AROUND THE STATE, IT HAS BEEN JUST WHAT WE THOUGHT TOO, HEAVY WEIGHTS GOING TOE TO TOE, BUFORD TRAILING 9:42 1041 DEPLOY, THE FOURTH YEAR IN A ROW, THESE CLUBS HAVE GONE AT IT IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
BUFORD WINNING THE FIRST THREE IS IT CALHOUN'S DEAD.
TAYLOR LAMB IS PINNED IN NOWHERE TO RUN AND DECKED UP TO 17.
WELL, HERE WE HAVE BUFORD BEING VERY DISCIPLINED ON DEFENSE.
STAYING AT HOME, YOU KNOW?
AND NOW YOU'VE GOT PEOPLE SITTING BACK SIDE WAITING ON THE COUNTER WHEN THEY DO IT.
I'M SURE HOUSE TRYING TO RUN THE BALL A LITTLE BIT TO BURN A LITTLE BIT OF CLOCK.
THERE IS A, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A TENDENCY LATE IN THE GAME LIKE THIS, NOT TO GET THE BALL IN THE AIR QUITE SO MUCH WHEN YOU CAN BURN THE CLOCK, RUNNING IT AND NOT TURN IT OVER.
BUT THEN AGAINST AN OFFENSE, WITH AN OFFENSIVE CALHOUN HAS.
RUNNING THE RISK OF TAKING THE AIR OUT OF THE FOOTBALLS.
IT'S AN UNCHARACTERISTIC.
MOVE YOUR RIGHT CALHOUN, SOME RUNNING ROOM FOR LAMB OVER THE 2025, TOWARDS A CORNER, GETS THE FIRST DOWN.
WHAT A PLAY BY TAYLOR LAMB, I'M A BLOCK BY JOSH BARNES ON THE CORNER TO SPRING THAT MOVE UP.
FILLED WITH HUGE JOHN, YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.
HE MAKES THIS PLAY HAPPEN.
GREAT AWARENESS BY THE WIDE RECEIVER WHO SEES THE QUARTERBACK BAILING OUT AND HE TURNS BACK AND LOOKS FOR SOMEBODY TO BLOCK AND HE DOES JUST GETS ENOUGH OF A SHOULDER OUT THERE.
SO TAYLOR LAMB CAN TURN THE CORNER JUST UNDER FIVE YARDS OF CARRIED A KNIFE, 59 TOTAL YARDS, 16 ON THAT LAST PLAY.
HERE'S WASHINGTON MET AND DROPPED AT THE 49 YARD LINE.
FIRST DOWN CALHOUN.
YOU THINK THEY'RE FEELING IT RIGHT NOW, 17-YARD PICKUP FOR DARIUS WASHINGTON AS WE DIP UNDER TEND TO PLAY IN THE GAME.
ONCE AGAIN, YOU'RE RUNNING THE COUNTER, TRY PULLING THE RIGHT GARDEN RIGHT?
TACKLE THEY GET GREAT PINS AND IT OPENS UP THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD.
CALHOUN RONNIE.
GET AGAINST A BUFORD OFFENSE THAT HAS POSTED SIX SHUTOUTS THIS SEASON AND IS ALLOWED UNDER SIX POINTS A GAME.
THEY LEAD AT 9:42.
LAMB THROWS.
THIS ONE'S BAD AT DOWN AT COMPLETE.
DYLAN LEE, GETTING THE HANDS UP, MAKING SURE THAT THAT PASS WAS REJECTED.
WILL TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT IT, YOU'LL SEE HIM COME IN OFF THE RIGHT EDGE.
COMING OFF THE CORNER AND RIGHT THERE IN THE FACE OF TAYLOR LAND THE ENTIRE TIME, WHAT DOES IT COACH YOU ALWAYS TELL DEFENSIVE PLAYERS IN A PASSING SITUATION?
KEEP YOUR HANDS UP, GET THEM UP, GET THEM UP.
THAT WAS A NICE JOB BY DYLAN.
HE ACTUALLY STARTED IN COVERAGE AND TIMED OUT THE GLITZ AND DID A NICE JOB WITH IT.
BACKSIDE PRESSURE SCREEN IS INCOMPLETE.
THANK YOU HIT A LINEMAN BETWEEN THE NUMBERS IN THE MIDDLE OF WHERE THAT FLANKER SCREEN WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.
HE DID THERE WAS A LITTLE MISCOMMUNICATION THERE TO SAW.
THE RECEIVER PUT HIS HANDS UP.
HE WASN'T QUITE SURE THAT HE WAS EN ROUTE OR WHAT THE ROUTE WAS.
LET'S SEE IF WE CAN COME UP WITH YOUR ANSWER HERE.
TAYLOR LOOKING LOOKING TO HIS RIGHT, THROWS IT TO A SPOT.
THIRD AND TEN, FROM THE 49-YARD LINE OF BEAUFORT.
THEY MAY RUN THE DRAW HERE AND JUST BE CONTENT TO KNOW.
THEY'RE GOING TO PUT IT IN THE AIR AND A PASS IS COMPLETE RYERSON FIRST DOWN AT THE 35.
HE STAYED IN BOUNDS, HE DID SUPER PLAY BY CALHOUN.
I THOUGHT THEY MIGHT KEEP THE BALL ON THE GROUND AND BE CONTENT UPON IT, BUT THERE IT IS.
AGAIN, YOU'RE LOOKING AT TAYLOR LAMB, HE'S GOING TO LOOK TO HIS RIGHT ON THE DRAG.
CHASE RYERSON.
THAT WAS AN UNDERNEATH ROUTE BY THE INSIDE RECEIVER.
AND ONCE AGAIN THAT'S A MATCHUP CALHOUN LIKES BECAUSE HE'S RUNNING AND COVERAGE WITH A LINEBACKER CLOCK ROLLS AT 8:47 846.
THERE'S THE BUSY GUY RIGHT THERE.
CHASE RYERSON, 64.
56 ON THE DAY.
WASHINGTON.
NICE.
PIVOT GETS HIM A COUPLE OF EXTRA YARDS TO THE 27TH.
JOHN THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON HERE TO, THAT'S PROBABLY A LITTLE UNUSUAL FOR BUFORD, YOU KNOW, HERE, YOU'RE SEEING THEIR DEFENSE STAYING ON THE FIELD FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME AND THEY'RE HAVING TO CHASE PEOPLE.
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE HAVING TO RUSH AND GET UPFIELD AND THEN, YOU KNOW, CALHOUN'S KEEPING THEM OFF BALANCE WITH MIXING UP THE RUN INTO THROW AND YOU CAN SEE IT ON THE FACES OF THE BUFORD PLAYERS HERE.
YOU'VE GOT FOLKS LOOKING UP AT THE CLOCK WITH EIGHT MINUTES TO GO.
IF THEY DON'T GET ANOTHER FIRST DOWN CALHOUN, THEY COULD TAKE IT TO ABOUT 6:20.
THAT'S A TIRED.
DEFENSE IS ON THE FIELD RIGHT NOW.
LAMB WAS THINKING ABOUT THROWING COCK THAT ARM NOW PUSHED OUT OF BOUNDS.
WAS IT A LATE HIT?
THAT'S WHAT THE CALHOUN BENCH IS SAYING.
I THINK THAT'S A GOOD NO CALL BY THE OFFICIAL, THE CONTACT WAS MADE.
THE DEFENDER WRAPPED HIM UP BEFORE HE STEPPED OUT OF BOUNDS, AND HE RODE HIM OUT.
THINKING ABOUT IT, THINKING ABOUT IT, THINKING ABOUT IT AND HE WAS IN THE ACT OF TRYING TO TACKLE ANY KIND OF JUST GENTLY LAID HIM DOWN ON THE GROUND.
IT COULD HAVE BEEN A LOT WORSE, THAT'S A GOOD.
NO CALL TAYLOR DIDN'T HAVE AN OPTION THERE BECAUSE THAT WAS NOT A DESIGN THROW THAT WAS A DESIGN RUN.
YOU HAVE LYMAN DOWN PILL TOO SMART OF HIM.
NOT TO GO AND GUYS TO YOUR POINT.
THIS IS THE 52ND SNAP OFF.
THAT'S ITALY FOR CALHOUN OF THE GAME.
THE FANS DANGEROUS THROW THAT WENT BEHIND JOSH BARNES.
GOOD COVERAGE BY DYLAN LEE.
IF HE, IF HE GETS HIS EYES ON THE QUARTERBACK, HE PICKS THAT AND GOES FOR SIX.
DYLAN DOESN'T GREAT JOB OF GETTING UNDERNEATH THIS ROUTE RUNNING IN COVERAGE.
YEAH, THERE'S LOOKING AT BARNES THE WHOLE TIME.
YEAH.
AND THE THROW WAS, IT WAS BEHIND HIM.
IT WASN'T IT WASN'T TAYLOR'S BEST THROW THE DRIVE STALLS BUT NOW YOU'VE GOT ADAM GRIFFITH COMING OUT TO ATTEMPT A 46-YARD ER AND HE MAKES THIS IT'S A TWO POSSESSION GAME YOU HAVE TO SCORE TWICE IN THE FINAL SEVEN AND A HALF THIS SPOT.
THE KICK LOG ENOUGH.
IS IT GOOD?
IT IS CALHOUN CAN SMELL IT DOWN.
7:42 TO PLAY OF BOMBING FIELD GOAL BY ADAM GRIFFITH.
IT'S CALHOUN.
WHAT DO YOU LOVE THEM?
AND BUFORD 10, THE FOOTBALL, HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS ON GPB ARE MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY THE GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION WHICH THANKS GEORGIA FARM BUREAU FOR THEIR SUPPORT.
WE STRONGLY BELIEVE IN TRAINING, THE LEADERS OF TOMORROW.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE PROUD TO BE PART OF GEORGIA.
HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.
FROEGERS FARM BUREAU IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION SERVING OUR STATE FOR NEARLY 75 YEARS.
WHILE WE FOCUS ON FARMERS AND RURAL GEORGIA, I'VE BENEFITS ARE AVAILABLE TO ALL FROM INSURANCE TO HELP PROGRAMS TO POPLAR DISCOUNT PROGRAM, GEORGIA FARM BUREAU, HELPING YOU IS WHAT WE DO BEST.
WE WALK ME BACK TO THE GEORGIA DOME CALHOUN.
NOW, LETTING BUFORD 9:39.
LET'S GO DOWN TO THE FIELD AND NIKKI GUYS, I'M STANDING RIGHT HERE WITH AMANDA.
BUILT THIS.
BUFORD PROGRAMS COACH, DEXTER WOULD ENTICE A COACH.
BECAUSE ONCE A COACH ALWAYS A COACH, EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE THE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR.
RIGHT NOW, I HAVE TO ASK YOU THOUGH, SECOND HALF.
WHAT CAN THE WOLVES DO TO OVERCOME THIS POINT DEFICIT?
WELL, WE'RE SURELY IN A HOLE, AND I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'VE BEEN IN THIS KIND OF HOLE FOR THIS RUN THAT WE'VE BEEN IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS.
SO IT'S REALLY GOING TO TEST US, WE JUST GOT TO GET SOME RHYTHM OFFENSIVELY CREDIT TO THEIR DEFENSE, BUT WE JUST HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET ANYTHING GOING ON THE OFFENSE AND OBVIOUSLY WAS LIKE, WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO THROW UP.
ALL RIGHT.
NOW COACH SIMPSON.
HE WAS YOUR DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR AND STRENGTH COACH PRIOR TO YOU, PASSING THE TORCH.
HOW CONFIDENT WERE YOU IN HIS ABILITIES THAT ULTIMATELY HAS LEFT HIM 96?
AND FOR RIGHT NOW WHERE THERE WAS NO DOUBT YOU KNOW HE HELPED BUILD THIS PROGRAM.
HE WAS HERE FROM DAY ONE WHEN I TOOK THE JOB.
SO IT WAS ONLY RIGHT THAT HE TAKE IT ON AND HE'S ONLY BUILT ON IT.
ALL RIGHT, WELL, THANKS SO MUCH COACH, APPRECIATE IT.
ENJOY THE REST OF THE GAME BACK UPSTAIRS.
OKAY, NIKKI THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
WE HAVE 742 TO PLAY IN THIS GAME AND DID THE POINT.
WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YOU FOR TRAIL DOUBLE-DIGIT, I'M FISHING THROUGH ALL OF MY NOTES.
I KNOW THAT LAST WEEK WAS THE FIRST WIN FOR BUFORD WHEN THEY WERE TRAILING AT THE HALF SINCE 99.
THEY TRAILED LINCOLN COUNTY 11:47 IN THE PLAYOFFS BEFORE WINNING 24, TO 19.
BUT THIS DEEP THIS LAKE, SOMEONE'S GOING TO HAVE TO GO INTO THE BOOKS FOR THIS ONE.
PLEASURE JAMES WILL RETURN.
I WAS GONNA SAY IT'S UNCHARTED TERRITORY FOR BUFORD YOU KNOW, THE BEST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN FOR THEM, RIGHT?
INHALES TO BREAK A RUN, YOU KNOW, IF I WAS GOING TO SAY A FEW FOR GOES INTO A PASSING MODE HERE, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO DO THEMSELVES ANY FAVOR.
THEY ARE TWO SCORES DOWN NOW BUT AT THE SAME TIME YOU KNOW THEY THEY CAN RUN THE BALL ON YOU AND SCORE ON ANY GIVEN PLAY AND THEY MAY CATCH CALHOUN PLAYING A LITTLE SOFT IN COVERAGE RIGHT NOW BUT THE ONE THING TIM IS YOU KNOW YOU CAN'T MAKE IT ALL UP ON ONE PLAY.
NOW YOU GOT TO CONCENTRATE ON THIS PLAY AND THIS DRIVE.
AND TRY TO PRESERVE THE CLOCK AS MUCH AS YOU CAN ADMIRE HIM FOR DOING THIS.
THE TOSS COPS THE CJ4 BUT CALHOUN WAS READY FOR THEM ON THE CORNER.
YOU TALK ABOUT A TEAM IN JESS SIMPSON THAT IS UNDEFEATED IN APPEARANCES IN THE GEORGIA DOME AND GOING BACK TO DEXTER WOODS TIME I WANT TO SAY THAT THEY'RE 9 AND 0 AND APPEARANCES IN THE GEORGIA DOME SEMIFINALS AND FINALS UNDER JESS SIMPSONS ARE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A TEAM 35 AND TWO ON THE ROAD.
ALL OF THESE ELEMENTS TO CREATE THIS CHAMPIONSHIP IN TO CREATE THIS PROGRAM TO WHERE IT IS NOW.
AND THAT CLOCK CAN'T MOVE ANY FASTER FOR CALHOUN.
WELL AND CALHOUN'S AT A DISADVANTAGE NOW BECAUSE GABE FREEMAN JUST CAME OFF THE FIELD WITH A CRAMP LATE IN THE YEAR.
AND THESE KIDS ARE TIRED, THEY'RE GIVING IT EVERYTHING.
THEY'VE GOT, THEY NEED HIM OUT THERE.
MORE 230 DRIVEN DOWN.
VERY CLOSE TO THE FIRST DOWN.
THE SPOT WILL TELL THE STORY.
AND IT IS A FIRST DOWN, IT APPEARS, THEY STARTED THE MOVE, THE CHAIR CALHOUN, AND THE SECOND HALF HAS DOMINATED, NOT ONLY THE YARDS, BUT THE TOP OF POSSESSION, BELIEVE IT OR NOT AGAINST BUFORD.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE FIGURED.
WE THOUGHT AN OFFENSE LIKE CALHOUN'S ZONE.
READ OPTION SPREAD WOULD BE THE OFFENSE.
THAT COULD BEST GO UP AGAINST BUFORD AND STAY COMPETITIVE.
IT'S THE ONLY OFFENSE THAT CAN BEAT YOU FOR STUFF DONE.
FIRST OUT OF THOSE POLL DOES CALHOUN HABIT.
THE CALHOUN YELLOW JACKETS ARE JUMPING AROUND, LIKE THEY'VE GOT THE FOOTBALL TO DO DISASTER FOR BUFORD.
THIS GOES BACK TO THE MOMENTUM THING.
YOU'VE GOT CALHOUN PLAYERS.
SMELLING THIS THING UP AND LOOK HOW MANY LOOK, HOW MANY BLACK JERSEYS GET TO THE FOOTBALL HERE.
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE HITTING AND THEY'RE RIPPING AT THE BALL.
YOU'VE GOT THREE GUYS AROUND IT NOW.
RENT FRECKS GOT FIVE OR SIX MORE AND BRICKS JUST WORK.
RIPS IT OUT TO GREAT PLAY.
THERE IT IS.
MOVING TO YOUR RIGHT, TRENT FIXES IN THE PILE AND THERE IT COMES OUT RIGHT THERE.
CALHOUN AT THE 30.
AND SPUN DOWN FOR A LOSS ON THE PLAY.
THE TURNOVER STORY.
HEAVILY TILTED IN CALHOUN'S FAVORS, I DOUBT IF THAT GOES BACK TO ON, YOU SAID IT EARLY BEFORE WE EVEN STARTED THE BROADCAST THAT YOU KNOW TURNOVERS COULD DETERMINE THAT THE OUTCOME OF THE GAME I THINK TURNOVERS.
AND AND THEN CALHOUN'S DEFENSE NO QUESTION, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES YOU LOOK AT TURNOVERS AND SAY WELL THAT'S A FAULT OF THE OFFENSE BUT, YOU KNOW, TURNOVERS ARE A BYPRODUCT OF A DEFENSE INTERESTED - RIGHT AS WE SAW THAT LAST BLOCK, RIGHT?
BUFORD MAY HAVE TO START THINKING ABOUT TIMEOUTS ON THIS SERIES, IF THEY CAN GET A STOP HERE, LAMB DIVES TO THE 30, SMART PLAY BY A SMART QUARTERBACK.
YOU KNOW, HE WAS LOOKING AT GOING TO THE EDGE AND HE DECIDED NOT TO TAKE IT TO THE SIDELINE.
HE DIDN'T STOP THE CLOCK.
HE JUST TURNS IT UP AND TAKES WHAT HE CAN GET.
THE CLOCK IS CALHOUN'S FRIEND RIGHT NOW.
RUNNING AT 5:16.
GOOD CLOCK MANAGEMENT TO TAYLOR'S DONE, A NICE JOB OF SNAPPING THE BALL WITH ABOUT 45 SECONDS LEFT ON THE ON THE PLAY CLOCK.
LAMBROS.
COMPLETE FIRST DOWN TO THE 15TH, BUFORD CONTINUES TO RACK UP THE YARDAGE SAYS CLAY JOHNSON.
HERE IT IS.
MIDDLE OF THE FIELD.
FLANKER SCREEN AGAIN.
THE CALHOUN HAS USED THE SO EFFECTIVELY THIS GAME AND IT'S BEEN A GREAT WAY TO COUNTER THE BLITZ.
NOW THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE IT DOWN ONCE AGAIN, IF THEY DON'T GET ANOTHER FIRST DOWN, THEY CAN TAKE IT TO ABOUT 2 MINUTES.
PAUL AND IT IS RECOVERED BY CALHOUN THAT WAS SOME INDECISION BY QUARTERBACK TAYLOR LAMB.
HE DIDN'T KNOW WHETHER TO STICK IT IN WASHINGTON STOMACH OR PULL IT BACK AND IT NEARLY COST HIM A TURNOVER AND GOING BACK TO THAT LAST PASS.
HE HAD A PROBLEM, GETTING TO THE FOOTBALL BEFORE HE COULD THROW IT TO CLAY JOHNSON THIS TIME.
HE'S THINKING ABOUT IT AND UH OH JOHN, WE TALKED EARLY IN THE FIRST QUARTER ABOUT HOW NERVES HAD AN IMPACT ON THE FOOTBALL GAME.
YEAH, THEY'RE BACK.
YEP.
YOU'RE IN THE FOURTH.
ORDER, YOU KNOW, BUFORD'S LOOKING AT FACING SOMETHING.
THEY HAVEN'T FACED CALHOUN'S DOING THE SAME THING.
YOU KNOW, CALHOUN'S GOT A CHANCE TO WIN THIS GAME AND YOU KNOW THE NERVES KICK IN.
WASHINGTON TO THE 20 AND YOU SEE THE DOLL ALEXANDER WHO'S LISTED ON SECOND LEVEL ON THE DEPTH CHART.
NOW IN IT DEFENSIVE TACKLE THERE HE IS.
BIG 74.
YOU'RE TAKING YOUR BEST ATHLETES AND HAVING THEM PLAY THE BALANCE OF THE TIME FROM THIS MOMENT FORWARD.
WELL, YOU GOT TO START THINKING ABOUT USING THOSE TIMEOUTS IF YOU BUFORD.
YEAH I THINK ON THE LAST TWO PLAYS WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD TIME, YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO LEAVE THE OFFICE SOMETIME TO WORK.
PARTICULARLY IF YOU DON'T HAVE A PASSING GAME THAT CAN CONTROL THE CLOCK.
THE PLAY CLOCK AT SIX AND IS CALHOUN USE A TIMEOUT HERE CONSIDERING IT?
THEY WILL BE THIRD AND 14.
THERE IT IS.
THEY WILL THAT STOPS IT AT 3:18.
THE EXPRESSIONS ON THE SIDELINES.
TELL THE ENTIRE STORY, CALHOUN, 3 MINUTES AND 18 SECONDS AWAY FROM THE UPSET WIN OVER.
BUFORD THIS WAS LAST WEEK AT MCCLUNG MEMORIAL STADIUM.
THE TURNOVERS DID THE OPPORTUNITY FOR BUFORD THEY WERE DOWN AT THE HALF AND RIGHT HERE, HERE'S ONE OF THE BIG TURNOVERS, A FUMBLED SNAP.
NO ONE WAS DOWN AND YOU RUN IT BACK THE OTHER WAY FOR THE TOUCHDOWN, BUFORD SURVIVES RICK LAGRANT THERE WITH THE TOUCHDOWN.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT, ALL OF A SUDDEN BUFORD ENDS UP IN GAME 15, BUT THERE ARE ISSUES RIGHT NOW IN GAME 15, FOR BUFORD FOR HAVING TO COME FROM BEHIND AGAIN.
AND OF COURSE AT THIS PARTICULAR JUNCTION ON THE FIELD, RIGHT?
THE TOE OF GRIFFITH CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO BOOST IT PERHAPS TO 14 POINT SPREAD.
NOW BUFORD YOU KNOW SIX MINUTES AGO THEY WERE STILL DOWN BY TWO TOUCHDOWNS.
YOU GOT TO GET TWO TOUCHDOWNS TO WIN AND THAT'S GOING TO BE THE CASE.
NOW IF HE HITS THIS, THEY'RE DOWN BY 14.
THE PROBLEM IS INSTEAD OF SIX AND A HALF ON THE CLOCK, YOU'RE GOING TO GET THE BALL BACK WITH ABOUT THREE.
NOW, LET ME ASK YOU THIS.
WHEN YOU WERE IN THIS SITUATION, OBVIOUSLY, THE SCORE WAS CLOSER.
YOUR CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL GAME BUT AS NERVES WERE GETTING THEIR, WHAT WERE YOU TELLING THE KIDS?
WE JUST KEEP, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN.
IT SOUNDS ALL, BUT JUST DO WHAT YOU DO AND DON'T GET AWAY, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T WANT TO GET OUTSIDE OF THE, OF YOUR GAME PLAN AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE RIGHT WHEN WE WERE WITH PEACHTREE RIDGE AND AND, AND AGAIN, IT WAS JUST A WAR, THE DIFFERENCE.
THERE WAS, YOU HAD TO PROGRAMS, YOU KNOW, WHO ROSWELL HAD NOT WON A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP IN 30 YEARS AND PEACHTREE RIDGE WAS A NEW SCHOOL.
SO IT WAS A LOT DIFFERENT.
I THINK THE EMOTIONAL SET THAT WE'RE SEEING HERE IS SO DIFFERENT THAN ANYTHING WE'VE SEEN.
BECAUSE CALHOUN'S BEEN HERE, BEEN HERE BEEN HERE AND YOU KNOW, SOME POINT IN TIME TO ODDS, KICK IN, I MEAN YOU PLAY SOMEBODY FIVE TIMES, YOU KNOW, YOU AROUND BUT YOU HAVEN'T WON SINCE 1952 WELL THERE.
THEIR CLOTHES HERE.
AND THIS FROM 37 IS GOOD, CALHOUN ADDS 3 NOW, IT'S 9:36 TAYLOR RAMOS, FEELING IT.
HE WENT TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP BELT MOVE THAT YOU SEE AARON RODGERS DO ON ON THAT THE DAY.
THAT IS TWO DAYS FROM NOW.
BUT THAT LEG OF ADAM GRIFFITH AND THE STORY THAT HE IS TO GET TO THIS POINT, IT'S GOT TO BE MADE.
HERE IS ANOTHER FACTOR FOR CALHOUN.
RIP ITS ABILITY TO KICK THE BALL, PRACTICALLY OUT OF THE BALLPARK, RIGHT?
BUFORD NEED TO KICK RETURN IN THE WORST WAY AND THEY MAY NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY.
WELL, BUT REMEMBER THE LAST COUPLE OF KICKS THAT GRIFFITH HAS HAD HE'S GOTTEN UNDER AM A LITTLE MORE.
IT'S BEEN A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A SAND WEDGE LOB WEDGE ACTION, INSTEAD OF A STRAIGHT DRIVER.
SO HE'S CREATING THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.
THE LAST TWO TIMES HE'S HAD THE FOOTBALL THIS TIME.
HE REALLY HAS TO DRILL IT, KICK HER LIKE GRIFFIN.
HE'S A GAME CHANGER AND HE'S BEEN THE DIFFERENCE.
I THINK.
WELL, HE HASN'T BEEN THE DIFFERENCE.
HE'S BEEN A BIG SCORING THREAT FOR THEM.
THEIR DEFENSE HAS BEEN THE DIFFERENCE.
ONCE AGAIN WE TALKED ABOUT THE LAST TITLE 1952 OR GORDON COUNTY AND CALHOUN HIGH AND THEIR 307 AWAY FROM GETTING THAT TITLE, NOW THAT 307 CAN BE A LONG 307, THOSE GUYS RUN PLAY CHANGES, EVERYTHING IT DOES, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE ONE PLAY AND ONE ONSIDE KICK AWAY FROM, YOU KNOW, TIE BALLGAME.
SO YOU GOT TO KEEP PLAYING THIS THING.
THING AND IT DOES DRILLED IT TO THE END ZONE, YOU TALKED ABOUT THE NUMEROLOGY OF THE DAY WITH THE LAMBS, 30 YEARS AGO WITH COMMERCE WINNING IN 1981.
WHERE BOBBY LAMBS ACCOUNTS FOR FOUR TOUCHDOWNS FOR THE LAMB FAMILY TO GET THAT TITLE, 28 14 OVER GREEN COUNTY AND NOW YOU'RE AT 2410 WITH THE LAMBS ON THE SIDELINES AND ON THE FIELD, MAKING ANOTHER IMPACT IN ANOTHER TOWN.
AND BOBBY LAMB IS HERE TODAY.
A TO WATCH HIS BROTHER AND SON AND DAD, RAY IS HERE AS WELL.
BEAUFORT RISE OVER BURRIS.
RAN INTO HIS OWN BLOCKER DOWN AT THE 16 OF THE LAMBS ARE A WONDERFUL FOOTBALL FAMILY, WHAT REALLY GAVE TO THE STATE OF GEORGIA, THROUGH HIS SERVICES UP AT UGA AND WORKING WITH HIGH SCHOOL COACHES AND THEIR TERRIFIC FAMILY.
AND WELL, DESERVING OF THIS GOING BACK TO WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER IS SO HARD TO GET TO THIS TITLE GAME ONCE THESE BOTH OF THESE PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN THERE NOW, NUMEROUS TIMES AND THAT, THAT'S A TRIBUTE TO HOW GOOD BOTH OF THEM ARE.
IT'S A SHAME THAT SOMEBODY HAS TO LOSE THIS GAME.
LIKE, FLAG STOPS IT BEFORE THE SNAP FALSE START OFFENSE.
FIVE-YARD PENALTY.
SO, NOW, YOU'RE IN A SECOND AND OBVIOUS PASSING SITUATION HERE, SECOND 19, YOU'VE GOT ALL THREE OF YOUR TIMEOUTS.
AND NOW YOU'RE HAVING TO PULL SOME THINGS OUT OF THE PLAYBOOK FROM PAGES, YOU MAY NOT NECESSARILY HAVE TURNED TO A WHOLE LOT THIS YEAR.
CRUSHER.
THROWS TO THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GELATIN INCOMPLETE.
THIRD DOWN WITH 202 LEFT, GRANT FULLER, GETTING IN AT THE LAST SECOND TO KEEP THE BALL AWAY FROM KURT FREITAG CALHOUN'S CALHOUN'S, MAKING GREAT PLAYS ON DEFENSE RIGHT NOW.
AND YOU KNOW, THE FACT THAT IT TOOK SO LONG TO GET THIS BALL OUT.
SO, TRIBUTE TO THE, TO THE COVERAGE DOWNFIELD.
THEY HAD EVERYBODY COVERED UP AND NICE JOB KNOCKING THAT BALL DOWN RUSHING THREE DROPPING AIN'T RIGHT NOW IN THIS 335.
THAT'S WHAT YOU CAN DO IN THIS DEFENSE, YOU CAN EITHER BRING IT OR DROP A AND THEIR CHOOSING LADDER.
FROM HIS 3-YARD LINE OVER THE MIDDLE.
AND IT'S CAUGHT AT THE 45 AND DOWN AT THE 46 YARD LINE.
SO A BIG RECEPTION AND RYAN, DILLARD, HAULING IT IN GETS BUFORD OUT TO MIDFIELD.
THIS IS, THIS IS THE THING YOU CAN'T DO IN THIS SITUATION IS LET SOMEBODY GET BEHIND YOU AND YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP IT ALL IN FRONT.
KEEP IT ALL UNDERNEATH YOU THAT THAT PLAY WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE HOUSE IF THAT BALL WAS THROWN ABOUT SIX INCHES, LOWER 35, YARD PASS PLAY, I'LL BET IT 45 TO PLAY IN COUNTING.
BUFORD DOWN, TWO SCORES LOOKING TO RALLY.
THEY GO DOWN THE SIDELINE INCOMPLETE.
INTENDED FOR FRIDAY.
WELL, IT'S HARD TO SAY.
ONE PLAY SHIFTED THE MOMENTUM HERE IN THE SECOND HALF.
BUT GUYS, I GO BACK AS A FLAG IS ON THE PLAY.
I GO BACK TO THAT TWO-POINT CONVERSION.
YEAH.
WHEN THEY CAUGHT GOLIATH NAPPING A BIT, RIGHT?
AND THAT SEEMED TO SHIFT THE MOMENTUM ACCOUNT, I'LL GO BACK A LITTLE FURTHER.
TO THE PERSONAL FOUL CALL EARLY AT KEPT THAT DRIVE ALIVE TO CREATE THE SCORE EVENTUALLY BY TAYLOR LAMB IN THE END ZONE.
SECOND, AND TEN.
INCOMPLETE FOR A BEHIND HIM GOING A BIG HIT BART WAS DRILLED ON THAT PLAY.
THIS IS A ROLE REVERSAL.
I MEAN THAT'S THAT'S A LITTLE GUY MAKING A BIG HIT ON A BIG GUY.
IF IT'S GRANT FULLER AGAIN GOING TO BE COMING FROM THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN.
THREW IT BEHIND HIM WIDE OPEN.
IT WAS HUNTER NIGHT.
I'LL 6-FOOT 190 POUNDS OF THEM AND I THINK MIKE HE'S TRYING TO FIGURE.
ALL RIGHT, SOME OXYGEN RIGHT THERE IN THE RIB AND YOU'RE WIDE OPEN LIKE THAT.
I MEAN THAT'S THAT WAS JUST AN AMAZING HIT BUT ONCE AGAIN WE TALK ABOUT THOSE LINEBACKERS FROM CALHOUN AND HOW HAL LAMB SAYS THEY'RE THE HEART OF THIS DEFENSE.
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT TRENT FRICKS HUNTER NIGHT, ALEX KIRBY, FREEMAN, AND FULLER, IN THIS 335 THEY'VE BEEN AROUND BUFORD ALL NIGHT LONG, THEY HAVE BUT YOU KNOW THE DOWN LIME AND HAVE ALLOWED THAT TO HAPPEN, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE ABSORBED THE BLOCKS AND ALLOW THE LINEBACKERS TO COME FREE IN A LOT OF CASES.
I TELL YOU IT'S TO ME THE MVP OF THE GAME.
IS THE 11 GUYS OUT THERE ON DEFENSE FOR CALHOUN?
NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.
AN EMOTIONAL MOMENT.
THEY'LL ALL OF THE FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY AND THAT'S WHAT HOUSE CRUST TO OF TO US WHEN WE TALK TO THEM DURING THE WEEK IN PREPARATION FOR THE GAME.
HE SAID, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO WIN IT FOR OUR GUYS AND I WANT TO WIN IT FOR OUR COACHES, BUT I REALLY WANT TO WIN THIS THING FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
YEP, YEP.
AND THAT THAT REALLY SPEAKS JUST TOO.
WHAT HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL IS ALL ABOUT OPEN, AGAIN INTERCEPTOR, IT'S PICKED.
MAN ON THE RETURN HEATH EVERETT THE FREE SAFETY BACK THERE AT CENTERFIELD.
AND HE PULLED OFF THE INTERCEPTION THAT WILL END BUFORD'S STREAK AND A FLAG ON THE PLAY.
AND I'M THINKING IT MIGHT BE A LATE HIT BY CALHOUN ON THE QUARTERBACK.
COMING INTO THIS GAME, BUFORD 72.
AND TO THE LAST FOUR SEASONS, THERE IT IS.
YOU SAW THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE LAST THREE GAMES OVER TIME LAST YEAR, THREE POINTS AND THEN 24, WITH CODY GETS HAD THE BIG PERFORMANCE IN 2008.
ALL OF THAT.
NOW LOOKS LIKE IN THE NEXT 82 SECONDS.
IT'S GOING TO GET WIPED AWAY FOR THE FIRST TITLE FOR CALHOUN SINCE 1952.
THIS IS OBVIOUSLY IT'S A GREAT NIGHT FOR CALHOUN, BUT YOU KNOW, THERE ARE NO LOSERS HERE TONIGHT THE THE REALITY OF THE PLAYOFFS 32 TEAMS GO IN 31 LOSE THEIR LAST BALLGAME.
RIGHT?
AND YOU KNOW, CALHOUN'S DONE A TERRIFIC JOB TONIGHT.
I HOPE BUFORD, IF THEY DON'T PULL IT OUT, I HOPE THEY'RE ABLE TO KEEP THIS IN PERSPECTIVE AND THESE KIDS LEAVE THIS PROGRAM BEING VERY PROUD OF WHAT THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS.
AND THINK ABOUT THE SENIORS AT YOU.
AND I BOB TALKED ABOUT THE SENIORS FOR CALHOUN.
HAVING TO GO THROUGH 2008 2009 2010 AS FRESHMEN.
SOPHOMORES JUNIORS.
AND NOW SENIORS AND THEY FINALLY ONCE AGAIN A MINUTE 22 AWAY FROM BRINGING HOME A TITLE AND KNOCKING OFF.
BUFORD BUT BUFORD IS STILL GOT A PULSE.
YEP, BACK THAT THERE WERE TWO PENALTIES ON THAT LAST PLAY, BOTH THE FOUR PERSONAL FOULS AGAINST CALHOUN AND THAT MOVES THE FOOTBALL ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE 24 YARD LINE, A QUICK SCORE, AN ONSIDE KICK.
THAT'S WHAT HE RETURNS.
WE MAY HAVE SET OURSELVES, SO I DON'T THINK WE HAVE, RIGHT?
BUFORD LOOKING TO GO TO THE END ZONE, THE PASS IS GOING TO BE TOUCHED.
THAT'S DOUBT, BUFORD THEY HAVE LIFE, THE CATCH IS MADE BY PERRY'S HEAD.
AND BUFORD IS ON THE BOARD WITH A MINUTE.
12 TO GO.
IT'S 24 216 FADE ROUTE TO THE CORNER.
JOHN YOU SAID SOMETHING EARLIER, ABOUT THE TWO-POINT CONVERSION AND YOU NEVER KNOW HOW THAT'S GONNA COME BACK TO AFFECT THE BALLGAME.
BUT BUT ESSENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, IF BUFORD HERE IS ABLE TO PUT THIS EXTRA POINT THROUGH AND THEN GET THE, GET THE ONSIDE KICK.
YEAH, YOU KNOW.
NOW, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE LOOKING AT A TIE GAME AS, YOU KNOW, WITH SEVEN POINTS AS OPPOSED TO A SIX-POINT WIN.
OR A SIX-POINT GAME AND THINK ABOUT IT, IF THEY, IF CALHOUN HAD NOT GOTTEN IT.
YEP.
NOW IF BUFORD CAN GET THE ONSIDE KICK OR GET ANOTHER SCORE IN THE NEXT 72.
S RIGHT, INSTEAD OF HAVING 23 ON THE BOARD TO FIGHT AFTER, RIGHT?
YOU KNOW, WE COULD HAVE A REPLAY OF LAST YEAR AND HAD TWO EXTRA FOOTBALL.
HOW ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PERSONAL FOUL?
YEP.
IN THE SECOND HAND.
OH YEAH.
ON BOTH SIDES.
YOU'RE RIGHT BESIDE.
YOU KNOW, IT'S A TERRIFIC.
TERRIFIC THROW BY SAM PLAY.
THERE'S YOUR SCORING DRIVE, SEVEN PLAYS 80.
IT TOOK JUST UNDER TWO MINUTES.
AND GEE, I WONDER WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT.
THE MOST EXCITING PLAY IN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS VICTORY FORMATION.
NO, NO FOR COACH IT.
THAT THIS IS IT HAD A CHANCE TO WORK FOR A GREAT GUY FOR A LOT OF YEARS.
READY - AND HE WAS ALWAYS DISAPPOINTED.
THAT THE STATE OF GEORGIA DIDN'T ALLOW KIDS TO RUN IT OUT OF THE END ZONE ON THE KICKOFF BECAUSE HE SAID THAT WAS THE MOST EXCITING AND I AGREE IT IS IT'S IT'S THE MOST EXCITING PLAY IN FOOTBALL, BUT NOW WE'RE NOW WE'RE ABOUT TO SEE THE MOST EXCITING PLAY IN HIGH SCHOOL BALL.
YOU'VE GOT ALL YOUR GUYS, BOTH SIDES COMING OUT THERE FOR CALHOUN.
IT'S THE GUYS WITH THE 11 BEST SETS AND IF BUFORD GETS IT BACK, THEY'VE GOT ALL THREE TIMES THEIR DISPOSAL.
YEP.
ONCE YOU GET IT ONCE AGAIN, CALHOUN, IF YOU DO THE MATH, YOU'RE TALKING SEVEN SECONDS TO PLAY 21 SECONDS.
THEY MIGHT HAVE 40 SECONDS LEFT.
IF THEY DON'T GET, HERE'S THE KICK AND IT IS GONNA BE SO CALHOUN WILL GET IT.
THE BALL NEVER WENT 10 YARDS AND IT WAS PROBABLY A GOOD THING TO CALHOUN, DIDN'T TOUCH IT.
SO WHAT'S IT LOOKING LIKE DOWN HERE, THEY'RE GOING TO SPOT IT AT THE 49, THE POINT WHERE IT ROLLED OUT OF BOUNDS BECAUSE THIS THING HAD SOME SIDE ENGLISH ON IT.
YEAH, YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY YOU WOULD YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE A BALL THAT'S GOING TO HAVE TOPSPIN, BOUNCE TWICE, AND THEN POP UP AND TOUCH DIDN'T TOUCH.
NO ONE TASTE.
IT ACTUALLY DID CROSS THE 50S.
IT ACTUALLY DID.
THEY COULD HAVE RECOVERED THAT WATCH IT.
GO THROUGH ONE OF THE BEAUFORT PLAYERS, RIGHT THERE GOES THROUGH THE LEGS.
GUYS, THAT FRONT LINE ON THE RECEIVING TEAM IS NOT A FUN PLACE THROUGH TILLING LEE'S LEGS.
AS HE WAS TRYING, NOT TO TOUCH IT BEFORE IT REACHED.
10 YARDS.
YAK BUFORD WILL BE FORCED TO BURN THOSE THREE TIMEOUTS TO TRY TO GET THE BALL BACK AND GO INTO HAIL MARY MODE.
DOWN TO 10 6:00 STILL RUNNING.
THERE IT IS COST TO ABOUT 6 SECONDS.
IT DID IT DID.
THAT'S VALUABLE TIME.
SO THEN IF THEY DO THIS TWO MORE TIMES WITH TIMEOUTS, IT TAKES DOWN TO ABOUT 45 SECONDS FOR FOURTH DOWN.
THEN YOUR PUNNING.
SO BARRING A FAIR CATCH, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT 35 SECONDS LEFT ON THE CLOCK FOR BUFORD TO GO FROM ONE END OF THE FIELD TO THE OTHER.
YEAH.
CALHOUN WENT TO A TO TIGHT END SET TO TRY TO GIVE THEM A LITTLE MORE STABILITY UP FRONT.
EVEN UP THE DEFENSIVE FRONT I DON'T THINK CALHOUN REALLY EXPECTS TO MAKE MANY YARDS HERE.
I THINK THEY JUST WANT TO RUN THE CLOCK AND PUNT THE BALL AND LEAVE AS MUCH AS LITTLE TIME ON THERE AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.
WHAT WILL BE INTERESTING IS THE PUNTING GAME.
YOU KNOW, BUFORD ALL NIGHT HAS NOT BROUGHT PRESSURE AND THEY'VE BEEN SETTING UP RETURNS AND AND TO THEY SELL OUT THIS TIME THEY'VE GOT TO YOU.
YOU THEY'VE GOT TO COME AFTER THIS ONE.
OF ALL SITTING ON THE 50-YARD LINE.
AND WE'RE ASSUMING HOUNDS NOT GOING TO THROW THE BALL.
YES, WE ARE.
AND TAYLOR WOULD PROBABLY BE HAPPY TO DO IT.
BUFORD 167 AND EIGHT SINCE 2000 WINNERS OF 27 STRAIGHT COMING INTO THIS GAME.
WASHINGTON AND AHOLD COMING PENALTY, FLAG BACK AT THE 46.
YOU DON'T LIKE THE PENALTY IN THAT SITUATION, BUT IT GIVES YOU THAT DOWN AGAIN AND YOU JUST BURNED OFF ABOUT 7 OR 8 SECONDS.
YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY MAY THEY MAY DECLINE.
THIS IS, AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TOUCH MY RUNNING BACK.
BUT OF A DO-SI-DO ON THE RIGHT TACKLE.
RUBEN SANCHEZ.
THEY SHOULD DECLINE THIS, SO IT'LL BE.
THIRD DOWN AND 14 OR FLIRT DOWN AND 15.
ACTUALLY, WELL, THEY WROTE THE ROLE PLAY.
ACTUALLY GOT SOME POSITIVE YARD.
IT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT THIRD AND SIX, ALL RIGHT?
OKAY.
SO INSTEAD OF CLOCK RUNNING YES, THEY KEEP THE FROZEN 254, RIGHT?
OIL.
THE WHEELS ARE STILL TURNING.
THAT'S WHAT I WAS SAYING, IT IS WEIRD EXTOLLING, THE VIRGIN'S ACCOUNT.
YET I'M WATCHING THE REFEREE, 2015, 15 MORE, RIGHT.
AND THEN BINGO THINK WE JINXED OURSELVES, TOUCHDOWN FANGS.
NOW IF YOU'RE JUST SIMPSON, IN THIS PARTICULAR HUDDLE, WHAT IS HE TELLING HIS GUYS?
YOU GOT TO MAN UP ON THE OUTSIDE AND THEN YOU GOTTA YOU GOTTA STACK THE BOX, MAN UP ON EVERY RECEIVER AND BRING EVERYBODY ELSE.
BUFORD STILL THOSE.
THEY'RE UP AGAINST IT RIGHT THEN.
LET'S GO TO THE FLIP SIDE.
IF YOU'RE IF YOU'RE A LAMB WHAT ARE YOU TELLING YOUR KIDS?
YOU KNOW, YOUR THIRD AND SHORT, THIRD AND SIX THIRD AND MANAGEABLE YOU JUST GOING TO RUN IT?
HANG ON TO THE FOOTBALL.
I DON'T THINK SO.
I THINK HE'S GOOD EITHER WAY.
THEY FEEL THIS COMFORTABLE THROWING THE TUNNEL SCREENS, YOU KNOW, AS THEY DO, RUN IN THE FOOTBALL AND HE MAY SEE THAT AS A WAY TO AVOID THE PRESSURE.
THAT'S THAT'S GOING TO BE COMING.
THE KEY IS NOT WHAT YOU RUN, THE KEYS, HANGING ONTO THE FOOTBALL, BUT WHAT IS IT?
THEY SAY ABOUT A PASS PASS CAN DO THREE THINGS TO OF THEM ARE BAD.
I DON'T THINK HE'LL AND BUYS INTO THAT.
THAT WAS WOODY HAYES AND HE'S NOT WITH US ANYMORE.
WASHINGTON DANCE AROUND AND EAT SOME CLOCK TO THE 45 AT THE TIMEOUT STOPS AT AT 47.
SO NOW CALHOUN WILL KICK IT AWAY.
TANK IS EMPTY FOR TIMEOUTS.
BUFORD DOWN, SEVEN HILLS FUN TO THINK ABOUT POSITIONS HERE.
YOU NORMALLY DON'T THINK ABOUT THINK ABOUT THE PRESSURE ON THE SNAPPER HERE.
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE STARING RIGHT AT THE FIRST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, YOU KNOW, IN WHAT 30 SOMETHING YEARS, 50 YEARS, WHATEVER THIS GUY'S GOT TO DELIVER THE BALL, YOU KNOW, ON TIME AND HOPEFULLY THEY GET IT OUT OF THERE.
A POOCH PUNT, GUYS.
JUST SOMETHING I WOULD LITERALLY AIM FOR A CORNER.
SOMETHING RAY GUY-ISH, MAYBE JUST TO PIN HIM AS DEEP AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE IF YOU KICK IT STRAIGHT NINE TIMES OUT OF 10, IT'S GOING TO GO INTO THE END ZONE, IT ALL CHANGES HERE BECAUSE YOU'RE TELLING YOU KNOW WHAT CALHOUN'S TELLING THOSE GUYS UP FRONT NOW IS TO BLOCK SOLID.
YOU GOT TO STAY WITH YOU BLOCK JUST A LITTLE BIT LONGER, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE KICKER PROBABLY WILL JUST WANT TO GET IT OUT OF HERE.
DON'T FORGET COMING UP AFTER THE GAME, WE'LL HAVE THE TROPHY PRESENTATION PREVIEW OF THE FOR A GAME.
THESE GREAT FANS THAT HAVE COME DOWN FROM THESE COMMUNITIES TO SUPPORT THEIR TEAMS INTERVIEWS.
YOU SEE IT ALL COMING UP BETWEEN GAMES CALHOUN'S CALLED A TIMEOUT.
YEAH, THAT'S A THAT'S A MOVE BY THE COACH.
HE JUST WANTED TO SEE THEM LINE UP.
SEE WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO.
HE KNOWS THEY'RE COMING NOW.
THEY'LL TELL THE KICKER.
JUST GET IT OUT OF THERE.
JUST GET THE BALL OUT OF THERE.
THE PRESSURE HAS COME DOWN TO THIS FINAL TWO MINUTES AND YOU GO INTO THE BACK OF THOSE CALHOUN HELMETS.
YOU SEE A LOGO THAT'S IN FW.
THAT'S FOR FRANK WALRAVEN.
USE THEIR NUMBER ONE FAN AND THEY ADDED THAT STICKER TWO YEARS AGO WHEN WALRAVEN PAST AND THAT HAS BEEN A REMINDER OF EVERYTHING CALHOUN AND WHAT THE YELLOW JACKETS HAVE STOOD FOR THIS ENTIRE RUN.
SO WE'RE CLOSING IN ON 60 YEARS OF THEM, NOT GETTING A TITLE AND FOR THE WALL RAVENS AND EVERYONE UP THERE AND COUNTY, THEY ARE DISCLOSE, BUT THIS IS WHY YOU DO THE RUNNING IN THE SUMMER.
THIS IS WHY YOU'RE IN THE WEIGHT ROOM.
THIS IS WHY YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION THAT THE FILM ROOM, THE TRAINING, THE PRACTICE, ALL THE GAMES, THIS IS WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO.
ALL RIGHT, SEE WHAT THAT SNAP HAPPENS.
LOW SNAP PRESSURE.
BE A GOT IT.
DYLAN LEE, UNBELIEVABLE.
I DON'T PUT IS WITHIN ONE WITH 39 SECONDS TO GO.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
41 YARD, FUMBLE RETURN.
AND WHAT IS IT THAT COACH WAS TALKING ABOUT THE SNAPPER.
IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS.
AND IN THAT SITUATION, THERE'S JUST SO MUCH PRESSURE ON THAT GUY.
HERE IT IS.
AND THAT'S A PLAY WHERE YOU HOPE THE KICKER JUST FALLS ON THE BALL.
SHORT HOP, IT TRIED TO GET RIGHT THE PUNT OFF.
DYLAN LEE ENDS UP WITH IT, AS EVERYONE GANGED UP, ANDRE JOHNSON WAS THE ONE TO PULL THE PUNTER AWAY FROM THE FOOTBALL LITTLE PRESSURE ON THIS KIT.
SEE HOW PATRONI HANDLES THIS, THE JUNIOR TO TIE THE GAME?
YOU GOT IT, MAN.
IT IS GOOD.
CALHOUN AND BUFORD ARE TIED.
HERE IT IS AGAIN.
SHORT HOP COMING IN TRYING TO CREATE SOMETHING, THERE'S THE INITIAL MOVE BY JOHNSON.
DYLAN LEE, PICKS IT UP, AND HE IS GONE.
THERE'S HOW LAMB UNBELIEVABLE.
WELL, HE'S GOT TO REGROUP NOW, THERE'S NO TIME TO FEEL, SORRY FOR YOURSELF IN THIS SITUATION.
YOU KNOW WHAT CALHOUN'S GOT TO DO, IS OVERCOME THE EMOTIONS HERE.
YOU STILL GOT 39 SECONDS ON THE CLOCK AND, YOU KNOW, CALHOUN MAY TAKE A SHOT OR TWO DOWN THE FIELD.
KEEP IN MIND, THEY'VE GOT A GREAT PILLOW, GOAL, KICKER.
SO, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO THE DISTANCE HERE, YOU KNOW.
SO YOU'RE LOOKING THE 30, THE 33-YARD LINE TO GIVE GRIFFITH THE ANTS FOR THE GAME WINNER?
YEAH I MEAN THE RETURNS CRITICAL.
IF YOU CAN GET THE BALL BACK TO ABOUT THE 25 OR 30 YARD LINE, YOUR THREE THROWS AWAY FROM FROM GETTING THIS THING INTO FIELD GOAL RANGE.
BUFORD LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WHO SCORED TWO TOUCHDOWNS AND 33 SECONDS, OH THEY'RE GOING TO THEY'RE GOING TO ONSIDE KICK THIS THING POOP.
ARE THEY JUST GOING TO FAIR CATCH?
THEY'RE GOING TO LET HIM RUN WITH IT.
LET JUST WASTED A LOT OF TIME CLOCKS DOWN TO 34 SECONDS.
AND AFTER 30, CALHOUN WITHOUT A TIMEOUT, 31 SECONDS LEFT IN REGULATION, TRENT FRICKS ENDED UP WITH THE BALL IN HIS HANDS AND INSTEAD OF CALLING FOR A FAIR CATCH, RIGHT?
AND STOPPING THE CLOCK TRIED TO CREATE WITH IT AND THEY'RE OUT TO THE 30 ODDS ON THEM.
TAKING A KNEE AND GOING TO FREE FOOTBALL.
THEY MAY I DON'T KNOW.
I MEAN THAT'S THAT'S HOUSE CALL HERE PERSON PERSONALLY I THINK YOU GOT TO TRY TO WORK IT DOWN THE FIELD.
WE'RE TALKING 40.
HEARTS TO GIVE GRIFFITH A CHANCE?
YEAH.
AGAIN, LOOK AT THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD.
I MEAN I THINK THAT'S THAT'S WHERE YOU'VE GOT A.
ARE THEY GOING TO RUN THE DRAW AND WASHINGTON IS POUNDING THE 30?
YEAH.
YOU'RE GOING TO OVERTIME FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW.
TWO TOUCHDOWNS IN 33 SECONDS.
YEAH, AND CAN CALHOUN RECOVER FROM THAT, EMOTIONAL SWINGS ACTLY AND NOW THAT YOU GET ONE TIME OUT EACH HER OVER TIME PERIOD.
SO YOU DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO TALK IT THROUGH AS MUCH AS YOU WOULD HERE IN REGULATION WITH THAT LAST TIMEOUT THAT HE BURNED BEFORE THE PUNT, RIGHT?
WELL THIS IS WHAT YOU EXPECT GUYS, MAN.
YOU GOT TWO OF THE BEST TEAMS IN THE STATE.
HEY.
ANY CLASSIFICATION, THESE GUYS CAN PLAY WITH ANYBODY.
WELL, WE THOUGHT THERE WAS A CHANCE OF OVERTIME BUT I DON'T THINK ANY OF US FIGURED IT WOULD HAPPEN THIS WAY.
BOB, THIS IS GOOD AT GAMES.
I'VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME.
IT'S KIND OF A NICE VIEW UP HERE.
YES, IT IS SPOKEN BY SOMEONE WHO'S WON A STATE TITLE.
NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT OVERTIME PHILOSOPHIES HERE.
OBVIOUSLY THE BIGGEST ISSUE IS CALHOUN SHAKING OFF THE LAST MINUTE AND A HALF OF REGULATION, THAT PART OF THE GAME IS OVER.
THIS GAME IS OVER.
IT'S A FRESH START AND IT'S FAIR UPS NOW IN OVERTIME, BASIC PERSONALLY.
I MEAN, I HATE TO SAY THIS.
I DON'T WANT THE FOLKS IN CALHOUN TO BE MAD AT ME.
BUT THE FACT IS, I THINK THE EMOTIONAL SWING IS GOING BACK TO BUFORD.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, THIS PUTS THEM BACK INTO AN IT'S OF RHYTHM THERE NOW.
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOW WORKING INSIDE THE 25-YARD LINE, THEY CAN GO BACK AND DO WHAT THEY DO.
RUN THE FOOTBALL.
IT'S NOT A GREAT DISTANCE FOR A FIELD GOAL KICKER.
SO, THE STRENGTH OF THE LEG OF THE KICKER'S NOW IS NOT AS BIG A FACTOR AS IT IS DURING REGULATION.
SO WHEN THEY START FROM THE 25, IF THEY GET NO YARDS, IT'S A 42-YARD FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT FOR GRIFFITH.
THAT'S IF NOTHING HAPPENS.
THERE ARE THREE AND OUT.
FOURTH DOWN, IS A 42-YARD FIELD GOAL FROM GRIFFIN.
HE'S HIT FROM THAT DISTANCE ALREADY TODAY SO CALHOUN CAN FEEL THAT AND BE FAIRLY SAFE WITH IT.
IF NOTHING HAPPENS ON THIS FIRST RIDE, YOU'RE RIGHT.
LET'S GO DOWN TO THE FIELD AND LINDSAY.
ALL RIGHT GUYS.
WELL YOU COULD SAY AND CALHOUN SIDELINE, EVERYONE WAS GETTING ECSTATIC.
IN FACT, WITH A LITTLE BIT, OVER TWO MINUTES TO GO, THE COACHES EVEN TOOK OFF THEIR HEADSETS HANDED THEM OVER AND KIND OF STARTED PACING AROUND THINKING, IT'S ALMOST TIME TO CELEBRATE THIS VICTORY.
NOW WITH, ABOUT A MINUTE AGO, THEY PUT THEIR HEADSETS BACK ON, REALIZE THEY HAD A BALL GAME.
AND THE AIR HAS JUST BEEN SUCKED OUT OF THIS CALHOUN SIDELINES, BUT THEY SAY TOGETHER WE STAND.
SO HOPEFULLY THEY'LL GO TO BED TONIGHT.
NOT SEEING GREEN GUYS.
NOW, LET'S GO TO NIKKI ON THE BEAUFORT SIDELINES.
GUYS, I'VE SEEN AENEAS.
P4 SIDELINES.
I KEEP HEARING WE FIND WAYS TO WIN GAMES AND MAKE THE BIG PLAY, AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAW THAT BLOCK PUNT RETURN.
WELL THAT WAS DYLAN, LEE WHO I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER WHO WAS SO FRUSTRATED WHEN IT CAME DOWN TO THAT TWO POINT CONVERSION GUYS, WE RAN OVER TIME AGAIN.
I HOPE YOU'RE READY.
YEAH, WE'RE STRAPPED IN PRETTY GOOD.
WE GOT THIS SEAT BELTS ON THE FIVE POINTS.
SIMPSON HARNESS IS READY TO GO.
UNBELIEVABLE DIVI EVER PUT HIS STOCK IN WINNING THE COIN TOSS FOR OVERTIME.
YEAH IT'S PROTOCOL.
YOU WANT TO WIN AND PLAY DEFENSE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO.
EXACTLY.
RIGHT ALEXANDER AND READ ALAN MEETING WITH THE OFFICIALS ONCE AGAIN CALLED HANDS WRAPPED ITS TAIL'S CALHOUN.
YOU WANT TO TOSS?
CALHOUN WILL GO ON DEFENSE.
AND I STAY I GO BACK TO THE WEAPON OF GRIFFITH.
BECAUSE AS YOU MENTIONED, JOHN FROM 40-45, HE'S PRETTY SOLID AND THAT IS A HUGE ADVANTAGE.
NOW YOU GET A STOP, YOU GOT A CHANCE TO WIN THE GAME WITHOUT GAINING A YARD AND THREE SNAPS.
YOU'RE RIGHT OVER TIME THOUGH, IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA, IT BRINGS A LOT OF KICKERS INTO PLAY, RIGHT?
AND AND THAT'S THE CASE NOW.
SO, YOU KNOW IT, YOU STILL HAVE TO EXECUTE IT.
WE JUST SAW THE KICKING GAME, YOU KNOW, EFFECTIVELY THROW THIS GAME INTO OVERTIME.
AND YOU KNOW IF THIS COMES DOWN TO A KICK THEY'LL BE NERVES THERE AGAIN.
YOU JUST NEVER KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN HERE AND PUT TROTTY'S LOG IS THIS YEAR'S BEEN 31 YARDS.
NOW ONE MORE LOOK IT'S GOING TO BE A SHORT HOP TRYING TO CREATE SOMETHING IN THE SITUATION, WAS THE PUNTER IN THAT CASE.
AND HERE COMES ALL OF THE BUFORD GUYS JUST COLLAPSING ON IT.
DYLAN LEE PICKS IT UP AND GOES INTO THE END ZONE TO SCORES AND 33 SECONDS TO TAKE US TO FREE FOOTBALL STARTING AT THE 15 YARD LINE.
AND YOU KNOW I'M SAYING ROADS HAD IT ALL OVER TO DO IT DO AGAIN.
HE WOULD HAVE FALLEN ON THAT FOOTBALL.
HE WOULD HAVE BEEN, HE'S BEEN TAUGHT TO DO THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW THAT THAT'S HAPPENED AND YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST IT'S THE SITUATION.
SO IT'S THE 15 YARD LINE.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THE 15, THAT STARTS A 32-YARD FIELD GOAL ATTACKS, IF NOTHING HAPPENS.
RIGHT?
ON EITHER SIDE, PATRONI, MISSED FROM 44, MADE FROM 33 IN THIS GAME TO MAKE IT 3 NOTHING.
SO NO WIND NO WEATHER ROOF.
ON THE HOOD OF THE CAR, EVERYTHING BEING EQUAL, WE'RE TALKING 30S RANGE FOR BOTH OF THESE GUYS.
YOU KNOW, THIS OVERTIME IS BECAUSE OF THE, THE 06 STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME BETWEEN US AND PEACHTREE RIDGE, AND AT THE SAME TIME, CHARLTON AND DUBLIN, SAME DAY, SAME DAY, SAME DAY.
THE TOSS.
AND NOW K GOT THE FOOTBALL.
ANDRE JOHNSON TOOK IT DOWN TO THE SEVEN AND LOST IT.
HEATH EVER CAME UP WITH IT.
NOW, ALL CALHOUN NEEDS IS A FIELD GOAL.
HERE'S YOUR REPLAY.
THIS IS JUST A CASE.
WHERE A YOUNG MAN IS JUST TRYING HIS HARDEST TO GET EVERY INCH THAT HE CAN ON THIS PLAY.
YOU KNOW, THIS IS A FUMBLE THAT'S CAUSED BY EFFORT AND THE HAT.
GOES ON THE BALL 100 NIGHT WITH THE HELMET.
YEP, WATCH COMING, RIGHT?
AND LOWER PART OF YOUR SCREEN.
GOT A SLIDE IN RIGHT THERE.
GOT TO COVER THAT BALL IT WITH TWO HANDS IN THAT SITUATION DOWN THAT MOST OF THE GOLD ON KEITH EVERETT WITH THE RECOVERY.
CALHOUN GOES ON OFFENSE BOTTOM OF THE FIRST.
NO, MY GUESS IS HERE.
CALHOUN WILL PROBABLY RUN THE BALL TWICE AND KICK ON THIRD DOWN.
I WOULD THINK THAT THEY WOULD DO THAT, AND IN THE EVENT THAT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE SNAP, AND THEN YOU GET AN EXTRA DOWN TO KICK IT AGAIN.
I DON'T KNOW THAT I'VE SEEN AN EMOTIONAL SWING AND I KNOW AND IT WAS THAT WAY AT THE START OF THE GAME.
YEAH.
WITH THE TURNOVER IS THAT GAVE CALHOUN A COUPLE OF OPPORTUNITIES.
IT'S BEEN AN AMAZING EVENING.
SO THEY LET ME ASK YOU AS A COACH, WHEN THE WORLD STARTS TILTING DOWN HILL AND EVERYTHING'S GOING AGAINST YOU, HOW DO YOU TELL THE GUYS MAKE IT STOP AND COME BACK THE OTHER WAY?
I DON'T I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE'S A, I DON'T KNOW, THERE'S A GREAT WAY TO DO THAT.
JOHN, YOU KNOW, AND THESE GAMES, YOU KNOW, THE COACHES ARE FEELING THE SAME.
EMOTIONAL, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WAY UP HERE, WE'RE FILLING IT.
YOU KNOW, YOU CAN TRIPLE IT AND GET AN IDEA SENSE OF WHAT THESE COACHES ARE GOING THROUGH.
I MEAN, THEY LIVE AND DIE WITH EVERY PLAY DOWN HERE NOW, AND THEY REALIZE THE ENORMITY OF THIS OF WHAT IT MEANS TO THESE COMMUNITIES, AND THESE PLAYERS FEEL IT, THEY'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND TRY TO PUT THIS AWAY FIRST DOWN, KNOCK IT OUT.
ADAM GRIFFITH.
IF HE DOESN'T HIT THIS YOU'LL SEE ANOTHER SWING.
UH-HUH.
32 YARDER FOR THE WIN.
IT'S LONG ENOUGH IS GOOD AT CALHOUN HAS WON THE DOUBLE A CHAMPIONSHIP.
I THINK THAT'S A BRILLIANT CALL BY HAL LAMB.
YOU KNOW DON'T TAKE A CHANCE WITH THE FUMBLE.
YOU'VE GOT THE BEST KICKER IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
YOU KNOW, LET'S GO AHEAD AND WIN THE GAME.
RIGHT NOW, FIRST TITLE FOR CALHOUN SINCE 1952 LOSSES TO BUFORD 2008, 2009 2010 AND THERE IT IS.
HAL LAMB GETS THE TITLE AND DOWN TO LINDSAY WITH THE COACH.
IT IS BEDLAM DOWN ON THE FIELD.
CALHOUN HAD IT IN THEIR BACK, POCKET.
IT SLIPPED AWAY AND THEY GET IT BACK.
THERE IT IS RIGHT THERE.
ADAM GRIFFITH COMES OVER TO AMERICA AT THE AGE OF 13, ADOPTED FROM POLAND.
FIRST TIME, HE WAS ON A FOOTBALL FIELD.
WAS THE FIRST TIME HE EVER KICKED ONE IN A GAME, HIT A 40-YARDER IN HIS TENNIS SHOES ON THE SOCCER FIELD TO IMPRESS COACH LAMB AND I THINK THAT HE'S REALLY IMPRESSED.
NOW, ADAM GRIFFITH WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR A IN CALHOUN.
I WOULD IMAGINE COACH SAVINGS PRETTY HAPPY RIGHT NOW.
YES.
NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT THAT HE IS ECSTATIC ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR.
LET'S LOOK AT IT ONE MORE TIME.
FIRST DOWN UNCHARACTERISTICALLY YOU SAID COACH A GREAT CALL FIRST DOWN, STRAIGHT, DOWN THE MIDDLE.
THE BEAUFORT HAD GOOD PRESSURE ON THAT TOO AND CLOSE TO.
THEY WERE CLOSE TO BLOCK IT.
THE THING IS IMPRESSIVE ABOUT GRIFFITH IS THE HEIGHT THAT HE GETS ON THE FOOTBALL.
HE GETS IT UP QUICKLY.
LET'S GO BACK DOWN AND TRY IT AGAIN WITH LINDSAY COACH, THREE STRAIGHT.
IT'S THE STATE.
AND YEAH, YOU KNOW I DON'T THINK OUR LORD SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST CALLS WITHOUT HIM HERE WERE IT WOULDN'T HAVE GOT DONE TODAY BUT I'M PROUD OF OUR KIDS.
WE ALMOST GAVE IT AWAY BUT WE HUNG IN THERE AND WON IT IN OVERTIME.
YOUR DEFENSE STEPPED UP ALL SEASON, COULD YOU TALK ABOUT HOW THEY STEPPED UP TONIGHT?
OH, THEY'RE AWESOME.
I WHOLE GROUPS ALSO MOMMY.
YOU KNOW, WE WERE THE UNDERDOG GOING IN AND I JUST HAD A FEELING ABOUT OUR KIDS.
I CURED JUST VERY SPECIAL.
WHAT'S IT LIKE DOING, YOU'RE GOING HOME WITH THIS AGE, ANCIENT.
WELL, THIS COMMUNITY DESERVES IT, THEY DESERVE IT BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN THROUGH THICK AND THIN COACH.
THANK YOU.
THANK YOU.
GUYS.
WILL GO BACK TO YOU.
IT IS HARD TO DESCRIBE.
THE HUNDREDS OF FOOTBALL GAMES, GREAT FOOTBALL GAMES THAT HAVE BEEN PLAYED IN THIS STATE.
AND IT COMES DOWN IN A TO A GAME.
YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO MAKE YOUR MARK IN THE HISTORY OF GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL THAT'S WHAT WAS ON THE TABLE TODAY.
FOR BUFORD A QUEST THAT BEGAN YEARS AGO AND HAS CULMINATED IN WHAT WE THOUGHT TIM WAS THEIR BEST TEAM EVER WHICH IS SAYING SOMETHING AT BUFORD AND THEY ARE DENIED THEIR SHOT AT FIVE CONSECUTIVE STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS BY A TEAM THAT THEY HAVE VANQUISHED THREE YEARS PREVIOUS.
NOW YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ADAM GRIFFITH AND I'M JUST IT IS ONE OF THE BEST GAMES I'VE EVER SEEN.
I MEAN, I'M PRONE TO HYPERBOLE SOMETIMES BUT THIS IS NO FIB AND THIS ONE OF THE BEST GAMES I'VE EVER SEEN.
IT IS THE BEST GAME I'VE EVER SEEN.
AND I THINK THERE'S A REAL GOOD CHANCE THAT THAT IS THE BEST BUFORD TEAM THAT'S EVER PLAYED OUT OF BUFORD.
AND I'M PRETTY CERTAIN IT'S THE BEST TEAM THAT CALHOUN'S EVER PUT ON THE FIELD.
NOW, DOWN TO THE STADIUM FLOOR, THE TROPHY PRESENTATION AND WAITING FOR THE CALHOUN TEAM, TO TAKE TO THE PODIUM AS THE CHAMPIONS OF TO A BUFORD'S LAST GAME IN THE TO A CLASSIFICATION.
AND THERE IS THE HERO AND THAT GENTLEMAN WHO JUST CAN'T IS IN THERE THAT SHOT RIGHT THERE.
THAT'S BOBBY LAND, AL'S, BROTHER.
NOW ONCE AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DAD, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE SYMMETRY OF THIS YEAR AND THE LAMBS WINNING AT COMMERCE AND NOW THE LAMBS HAVE ONE AT CALHOUN.
LET'S GET OUT OF OUR CARBON.
WHAT AN EXCITING WAY TO GET CHAMPIONSHIP.
WEEKEND STARTED ON GPB WITH THE CHAMPIONSHIP HERE.
IN DOUBLE-A, I NOT TURN THE MIC OVER TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE GHSA DR. RALPH SWEARENGEN.
CONGRATULATIONS TO CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM.
ALL THEIR GREAT FANS THAT CAME TO SUPPORT THEM AND NOW OUR REPRESENTATIVES FROM GEORGIA FARM BUREAU READY TO PRESENT YOU, YOUR STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY, WHO'S GOING TO ACCEPT?
CONGRATULATIONS TO CALHOUN, CLAY JOHNSON.
YOU'VE GOT THE TROPHY RIGHT NOW.
TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THIS MEAN.
WHEN MEANS YOU GUYS HAD TO RALLY BACK FROM A LOT OF ADVERSITY, LATE IN THE GAME, IT'S AWESOME.
I MEAN THE COMMUNITY THEY WE'RE JUST BOND TOGETHER IS SO GREAT.
I CAN'T DESCRIBE THIS FEELING WHAT WENT THROUGH YOUR MIND, WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, IT'S A TIE GAME AND YOU'RE GOING TO OVERTIME, I JUST HAVE TO THANK MY SAVIOR.
JESUS CHRIST, YOU PULLED US THROUGH TODAY AND I CAME HERE WAS BEHIND US.
I GOTTA THINK THAT THE FOR TIME IS A CHARM FOR YOU.
FOURTH TIME IS DEFINITELY A CHARM.
I KNEW I KNEW BEFORE THE GAME WE'RE GOING TO COME OUT HERE.
I FELT IT DIFFERENT AND WE EXECUTE CAME OUT WITH THE WIN THAT TROPHY UP.
I'M GOING TO TALK TO HEAD COACH.
HAL LAMB COACH BEFORE TIME DEFINITELY A CHARM HERE IN THE GEORGIA DOME AGAINST BUFORD.
YEP.
READS.
RIGHT.
YOU KNOW IT'S JESUS CHRIST.
OUR LORD AND SAVIOR HELPED US WIN.
THIS FOOTBALL GAME AIN'T NO DOUBT ABOUT IT BUT WE ALMOST GAVE IT AWAY IT TO END BUT I KIDS HUNG IN THERE AND FOUND A WAY TO WIN A FOOTBALL GAME.
I KNOW YOU HAVE A LOT OF FANS THAT MADE THE DRIVE FROM HOON.
THEY'RE ALL FIRED UP OVER THERE ON THE SIDELINES.
TELL THEM WHAT YOU TOLD YOUR TEAM BEFORE THAT OVER TIME, YOU GOT TO REGROUP WE HAD TO MENTALLY GET BACK IN THE GAME CAUSE WE WERE OUT OF THERE FOR ABOUT 30 MINUTES BUT THIS IS FOR TO CALHOUN COMMUNITY.
THERE WAS NO QUIT IN YOUR TEAM.
EVEN WHEN LIGHTNING STRUCK REVIEW FOR THE METS TIED THAT GAME YOU GUYS KEPT IT TOGETHER IN ONE THIS THING.
YEAH.
WE DID SOMEHOW WE FOUND A WAY AND YOU KNOW, OUR KIDS HAVE GOT GREAT CHARACTER AND WE HAD AN AWESOME YEAR.
WE FINISHED IT OFF WITH A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TODAY.
WELL, THAT'S IN A LOT OF VERY GOOD.
CONGRATULATIONS.
WELL PLAYED WELL DONE.
AND CONGRATULATIONS ON A PERFECT SEASON 15 AND ALL THANK YOU.
ALL RIGHT, HOTEL.
LAMB OF CALHOUN.
NOW, WE'RE GETTING READY FOR ANOTHER GAME ON, GPB.
IT IS THE FOR A GAME.
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