We Could Be King (2014) - full transcript

Germantown and Martin Luther King High Schools were bitter rivals for over 40 years. This past year, a budget crisis caused Philadelphia to lay off over 4000 employees and close two dozen schools, including Germantown High. Now Germantown must merge with their former rival, King. Against overwhelming odds, a 27-year old first time head coach and a new principal fight to inspire young men from difficult circumstances to come together and lift each other toward a better future.

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line up open, all right?

All right, so downtown left
44 zone 01.

Downtown left 44 zone 01. Ready?

Find the hole.

Different man: 113! 113!

3! Hut!

♪ everywhere we go ♪

♪ everywhere we go ♪

♪ People want to know,
people want to know ♪

♪ Who we are ♪

♪ Who we are ♪



♪ Where we come from,
so we tell them ♪

♪ Mighty, mighty germantown ♪

♪ Mighty, mighty germantown ♪

♪ Mighty, mighty bears ♪

♪ Mighty, mighty bears ♪

♪ Fighitng for victory ♪

♪ Fighitng for victory ♪

♪ Fighitng for victory ♪

♪ Fighitng for victory ♪

Man: Philadelphia
school district faces

a $300 million budget shortfall.

If we don't take
significant action,

the system will collapse.

Man: The doomsday budget for
the Philadelphia school district



has drawn protest.

William hite:
The recommendations

will be shocking, painful,
and disruptive.

Woman: School district leaders
announcing late this afternoon

that they plan to close
37 schools.

This is wrong for these kids.

These are children.

It could be your children.

Some 17,000 students

in the Philadelphia school
district could be impacted.

Girl: They're taking
everything from us.

We can't afford books.
We need sports.

Man: This comes after
nearly 4,000 layoffs

and drastic program cuts,
including in sports.

Different man:
I can't imagine Philadelphia

without high school sports.

We currently have half a dozen
players playing in the NFL

that played football
in a public league.

That might be a thing
of the past.

Woman: And now the details.

After 99 years,
germantown high school

in Philadelphia
is closing for good.

Man: Students
from germantown high will now

go to school with kids from
Martin Luther King Jr. high.

Woman: Germantown and
Martin Luther King high schools

are among the most violent in
the district and have historic

and longstanding
conflicts and rivalries.

Different woman: We're putting
together gasoline and fire.

Man: It's a formula that adds up
to a major safety concern.

Girl: I think it's
gonna be a lot of tension

and fights and stuff
because we don't really

get along with
germantown that well.

Man: King on one sideline
burning germantown flags,

fights after every game.

Philadelphia public school
students

head back to class on Monday,
many of them going

to new schools
after a summer filled

with controversy and conflict.

Ed Dunn: Be proud to be here.
Be excited about being here.

It's August!
It's football season!

Dunn: One. Two.

3. 4.

5. 6.

7. 8.

9. 10.

11. 12.

Dunn: This is game week.
This is game week.

We will not turn down.
We will not tune down.

We will not walk.
We will not bend.

We will not break.

Hut.

Boy: All y'all got
to go block the boom.

What y'all doing?

Different boy: You got
to get over, dawg.

You have to get over.

I'm getting over. You're not.

Shut up, shut up. You're not.

Both shut up.

Dunn: Hey, ain't none of that.
It ain't none of that.

What did I just say?
Brothers, right?

You pull him up.
Don't pull him down.

William Wade: We have to
merge these two communities

not only on the field,
but in the classroom

and in the hallways and
before and after school.

Great, man. Way to fucking hold.

Don't do that shit, dawg!

Man: Get in the huddle.

What the fuck?

Get in the huddle.
Get in the huddle.

I hate this shit!

Listen, listen, listen.

It'll be on display
tomorrow, all right.

We need to make this
whole merger successful.

Let's go. Let's go.
Get in the line.

Hit the line.

Dunn, voice-over: I was one
of the assistant coaches

at germantown high school
and also a math teacher there.

I was laid off
by the school district.

They're going through
a budget crisis right now.

Here at Martin Luther King, I am
serving as volunteer head coach.

I'm the person that is
responsible for the program,

runs the program,
but I'm not even an employee.

Boy: Boo.

Ooh! Who's that?

Daddy.

Daddy. Daddy. Ha ha ha!

I'm gonna watch football.

Dunn, voice-over: It's gonna be
an interesting school year.

The kids, they're gonna be
coming in tomorrow.

Got our work cut out for us, but
this is what I signed up for.

Wade: In the past,
king has been defined

by its serious incidents.

King had a bad reputation,
and we're still facing

that negative stigma that
has been attached to the school.

Now we're trying to reverse it
and bring it back,

and everyone knows if we don't,
we don't exist.

Good morning!

All: Good morning!

It's Monday morning, and I am

a black baptist preacher,
so I have no voice.

Listen.

We're here this morning
not making a statement

about the governor or the mayor

or the foolishness of those that

should be taking care
of our children.

We're here this morning
because we

are taking care of our children.

Martin Luther King
is turning around.

It is not what folks
used to think it is.

It is not what folks
are saying that it is

because this is going to be

a success story in Philadelphia.

Protect us and keep
with us, o god.

Wade: Let's rock 'n roll, team.
We have students arriving.

We have students arriving.

Wade: Girls, don't have
time to talk.

Find your shirt.
Find your name on the wall.

Hurry up.

Wade, voice-over: We're
a comprehensive high school.

We have to take everyone
that walks through the door.

We have the largest
special needs population

in the northwest region.

I educate the students
that nobody else wants.

Dunn, voice-over:
There's 1,500 kids here.

Transitioning from being in
a different school environment,

my role is to help ease
that transition

because I know so many
of the kids from germantown.

Wade: You have
to educate children,

and this year, we have
to do more with less.

Woman: Based on the city stats,

only about 40% to 50%
of you will gradate.

I don't agree with that.

Neither does any adult
that works here.

Girl: "I plan to
move out of Philly"

because it's not
getting any better."

"Hearing gunshots on
a daily basis was nothing new.

"If you live in Philadelphia,
I'm sure you agree.

"Life is rough.

"Times are hard, and sometimes
you want to give up.

I do, too."

Before, I went to germantown.
Now I'm at king.

I'm 6'6", 320, play football.

I'm very shy.

So usually, I wouldn't be
doing this right now.

Growing up, life wasn't perfect.

I got bullied a lot,
and you're acting like...

When I say that, a lot of people
can't believe it.

I wasn't really a fighter.

Man: We're gonna have 700 kids
out in the hallway for 5 people.

Lunchrooms are packed.

Whoa, whoa, oh, oh!

I was trying to break them up,

but there was too many people,

and it just turned
into a big fight.

I think I probably could have
prevented it a little more,

but I don't know the kids.

This is not what
I'm accustomed to.

Man: This school is really
out of control.

Our kids are hurting.

Some things need
to right now change.

Give yourself a round
of applause.

You survived first day.

Whoo!

So tomorrow, same time,
we'll be back here

getting started,

following our lesson plans
for the week.

Narrator: Crime, poverty,
and depression

was everywhere
in northwest Philadelphia

where vikings rookie
sharrif Floyd grew up.

Football quickly
became his ticket

to gainesville
and the Florida gators

and brought him the realization
of a dream.

Man: The Minnesota vikings
select sharrif Floyd.

Angus, voice-over:
Sharrif Floyd is my idol.

If he can do it, I can do it.

Voice: You have 3 messages.

Man: Dontae, coach from Florida.
How you doing, man?

Been trying to get
a hold of you.

What's going on, man?
What's going on in your life?

Tell me about it. Call me back.

I'll try later on. Bye.

Angus: Ah, he wants
to be a gator. Oh, yeah.

Taking you to Florida
with me, kitten.

Angus, voice-over: My neighbor
gave me this helmet.

It's the only thing I got
that represents Florida.

Hola. Yo.

I got Florida.

That's the college
I really wanted to go to.

How are you doing, kid?

How you doing? Mwah.

When do you leave?

To Florida? Yeah.

I go down there next year.

Man: You're gonna be famous.

All: ♪ go, Dontae ♪

♪ Go, Dontae ♪

♪ Go, Dontae ♪

♪ Go, Dontae ♪

♪ Go, Dontae ♪

Woman: Ha ha ha!

Wade: You are expected to go
to university of Florida.

That's where we want you to go.

Do you understand?

That school is strong
athletically and academically.

You have to qualify, ok?

That's the Ivy league
of the south.

Do you understand?

For them to even want you there,
you have to qualify, son.

Henderson, voice-over:
I'm going to 11th grade.

That's when scouts and stuff
start looking at you.

I need more colleges
looking at me.

So I got to perform better.

King is like, we have
a whole bunch of new faces.

Only people you know
is people you know.

See new faces, like,

"I don't know him.
I don't care about him."

We need to depend on each other,

especially to get
through the season.

Can't do it by yourself.

Hut!

Are we playing tag?
What are we doing?

Yo, why is the defense
playing tag?

Get it chopping.
Get it chopping.

Hit it.

Hit it.

Hit it.

Hit it.

Hit it.

Oh, see, these bottles
are so dirty, like.

We need some new bottles.

We need a lot of stuff.

That's "do not drink" water?

Yeah.

This water is not safe.

It come out of a green hose

down there, a hole
in the ground.

Girl: Dontae is so beautiful.

Different girl: Who's Dontae?

Third girl: Dontae, the big one.

He's a awesome person.

When I first saw him,
I thought he was

gonna be mean because he big,

but he is so sweet.

Like, he's delicate.

Dunn, voice-over: Dontae
has all these multiple

scholarship offers,
he gets so much attention,

but he's a guy who hasn't
grown up as a football player.

He's a football player
largely because he's 6'7", 320

with feet like a ballerina.

So he's kind of outside of
that culture and that mentality,

even though
he's this great athlete.

Sal is the opposite of Dontae,
where this is a kid

that's been playing football
since the crib,

and you can see it every single
time he steps on the field.

He starts as our safety.

There's definitely
a lot of eyes on us.

There's a lot of attention
to see can this work.

Man: We are king.
We're gonna play like kings.

We're gonna leave this field
as kings.

We came as kings.
We gonna leave as kings.

We are king.

Henderson, voice-over: We
haven't won a game in two years.

To win this game will
put this team on the map.

Jon gurevitch:
It is public league football

from johnston memorial stadium
in northwest Philadelphia.

I'm Jon gurevitch
alongside Kevin Reilly.

Indeed this was a season

we did not even know
would happen.

With all the budget
cuts this year,

a lot of these teams
weren't sure

whether the games
would come to fruition.

There's still a cloud
of uncertainty

hanging over coach ed Dunn,

coaching as a volunteer
and not completely clear

on what his status
will wind up being,

and yet, ed Dunn has got
some talent here.

And you begin with their
lineman Dontae Angus.

He could be walking through
an NFL locker room today,

and they'd say, "he's
a big guy for this team."

One more guy to keep an eye on

is junior sal Henderson,

natural athlete
with big potential.

He is a player to watch.

And hovering over all
of this is the old rivalry

between germantown
high school and mlk.

Unbelievable, a 40-year rivalry.

I think that's why we have

such a packed crowd tonight.

Yeah. Let's go, cougars.

Let's go, cougars.

Gurevitch: And the
season is under way.

Dunn: Let's go, d. Let's go.
Let's go, d.

Man: Break the tackle!

Man: Is it downtown?

Dunn: Got to leave there
unless they touch you downtown

and go where the edge should be.

Come on! Let's go!

Man: Let's go, Manny.
Turn it up, Manny.

Turn it up, Manny.

Sal, sal, sal!

Gurevitch: Intercepted.

It's sal Henderson for mlk

all the way down
inside the 40-yard line.

Dunn: Let's go. Let's go.
Let's go, y'all.

Let's go. Yeah, baby.
Let's go. Let's go.

It's our turn to go,
our turn to go!

We're good to go!

Let's go! Bring it in.

Hike!

Gurevitch: Joe Walker
back to throw.

Firing it down the left side.

Whoo!

Gurevitch: It's caught.
Breaks the tackle.

Touchdown, mlk.

A real solid first half for mlk.

The cougars find themselves
up 14-nothing.

Reilly: Shutting out
gratz in the first half,

they have really showed

some aggressiveness defensively.

Long way to go, though.

They've got a whole
second half to play.

Hut!

Go! Run!

He's already in the huddle.

Yo, Kareem, go to corner.

This guy ain't right! Shut up!

Hey, yo.

Shut up! Yo, yo, yo.

Shut up.

Shut up. Shut up.

Gurevitch: A little altercation
here between the mlk players.

Come on!

Man: Get off. Get off. Get off.

Different man:
Y'all can't just do that.

Y'all on the same team.
Y'all got to talk.

Dunn: Let's go!

Man: Yo, yo, why you unsnapping?
Why you unsnapping?

Gurevitch:
And the clock winds down,

and it is over.

The final score...
Simon gratz 22,

Martin Luther King 14.

That was our game.

Yo, man, they got
to deal with us again.

I know this shit hurts.
It should.

They got to deal with us again.

You gonna take
this walk with me?

We in this together, right,

to the end, family,

little bro, big bro, right?

All right. Come here.

You balled out tonight, man.

This shit not done.

How you feeling?

I'm good.

You sure, man?

No. I feel fine.

Nobody likes losing,

but I let it to get
to me, you know?

I need you to keep your head up,

keep them dudes encouraged.

They looking for you.

They looking to you
to lead them.

All right. Love you, bro.

Love you, too.

Come on.

I made you a plate.
You still hungry?

Yeah.

Thanks.

Dunn, voice-over:
I'm kind of learning as I go.

Not that many
27-year-old head coaches.

A big part of what motivates me
are my personal experiences.

When I was in high school,

one of my best friends
was killed

over pretty much nothing.

It was over a video game
or something silly like that.

We lived 50 yards
from each other.

Me and him went to
the same schools, you know?

What was so different
that he didn't get a chance

to grow into adulthood
but I did?

That's the reason
why I'm a teacher, that guilt

that I didn't do enough then.

We're in a triage.
This is the emergency room.

What I want to see
is a school district

be more responsible with
the dollars that they have.

They overspend, and then
they close schools.

It's really setting
our kids up for failure

because you've got
one counselor in here.

Woman: You got one
counselor for thousands.

This is a really bad situation.

The only cavalry
that's riding in

for some of our kids is us,

the folks that work here.

Will we run out of time?

Because just liked
germantown closed,

king could close, too.

Man: Martin Luther King
has to work.

Germantown is not coming back.

It's not coming back,
so what are you going to do?

One thing that I noticed, that
no one was getting recruited.

The kids have no idea,
but every single player

on our team
has a highlight film.

They think that
if you're talented

that you're gonna go play
college football.

There's an academic formula
that you have to meet,

and it doesn't matter
how good you are.

If you don't meet it,
you can't play.

Woman: Hey, Dontae, come on in.

We've been talking
about getting you ready

for the next step.

You need to qualify under ncaa.

Remember I said that? Yeah.

You need a 3.175 gpa

in order to qualify
by January 2014.

Your current gpa

based on ncaa
requirements is 2.5.

How do you feel about
all of this, Dontae?

Stressed. Stressed?

This is pretty big.

You are competing
with over 500,000

other individuals
for the coveted prize

to go into an ncaa school.

So you have to come
with your "a" game.

You got to step up.

1, 2, 3, 4,

5, 6, 7,

8, 9, 10.

This dude just getting out here.

Who? Dontae?

Dontae, come here, please.

We can't win without
you being that guy

that's gonna be out here first
leading by example.

We can't win.

We can't win like this, man.
Make this the last time, please.

Cool?

Yeah. All right.

Fall in
with everybody else, man.

I hate them so much.

The dynamic of the team is,
it's split.

Dontae is kind of
on the outskirts,

as a lot of germantown kids are.

I played football
for germantown.

I was the first girl
to carry the ball in the city.

When the merge happened
and we came to our rivals,

some of my coaches
asked me to come help.

What's wrong?

My shoulder hurts, man.

Yes, yes, yes.

That's why I'm gonna
put ice on it.

All right. Let's just try
to get this inside, ok?

You ready?

Grace, voice-over:
No one can beat them.

Yeah. Ok. All right. I'm sorry.

Grace, voice-over:
They can beat themselves.

We're gonna take our time.

It won't be like, you know,
someone took it from them.

They'll just let it go.

We got to do something
to wake these dudes up, man.

Man: When you lose
to a team like that,

it's so demoralizing.

Different man: I think
the way I'm processing it

is that it's a culture thing.

They're so used
to being failures,

they're resorting back

to their negative behavior.

This is what they're
used to doing... losing.

So they go back to the behavior

that they're used to exhibiting
when they lose.

Man: Wake up!

They're saying shit.

What the fuck
they saying, dawg? Hey.

Stop saying shit to me.

Come on. Let's just play

and lose the shit.

You're not giving me anything.

You got to make a play.

Defense, offense,

you're not giving me
anything right now.

Take your helmet off.
What happened?

What's up?

No. I'm good. I'm straight.

Ain't nothing wrong with me.

Announcer:
Cougars down 13 at the half.

Dunn: Get with your brothers.
Pull him up.

Keep your head up, man.

The whole city
counting on us quitting.

The whole city expecting
you all to quit now.

Pull your brother up.

It's our turn
to shock the world.

Hike.

Announcer: Joe Walker
with the football,

shakes off a defender.

Touchdown cougars.

Yes!

Dunn: D., keep your mind right.
It ain't over.

Announcer:
Running into the end zone,

mastery answers right back
with another big touchdown.

Man: You better
show me something.

Then keep throwing
number two out,

expecting 39.

Announcer: Long pass.

He connects,
and it's a touchdown.

Whoo! If we're gonna go down,

we're gonna go down fighting.

Announcer: The cougars
desperately need

an onside kick here.

Let's go, baby. Let's go.

Announcer: The kick is off.

There's a scramble,
and it's cougars' ball.

Let's go!

Announcer: So now
just 19 seconds left.

Dunn: They got to be
straight to the ball.

Sos, sos. Joe, Joe,
Joe, Joe, Joe!

Hike!

Announcer: Walker throwing
on the move.

Complete. First down.

Dunn: Good stuff! Let's go!

Dunn: Let's go.
It ain't over yet.

Thank you. Let's go.

We don't have
no timeouts. Listen.

8 punch, 8 punch. Go get it.

Get up. Punch that shit.

We gonna win this
game. Let's go.

Announcer: Final play now here.

Announcer:
Mlk knocking at the door,

faking a handoff,
Walker with the football.

It's inside the 5-yard line.

Different announcer:
That'll do it.

Shit!

P.A. announcer: That is the end
of the game here,

with the final score,

the mastery charter north
pumas 20...

Yo, yo, yo, pick that up.

Pick it up.

Pick it up. Keep your composure.

Yo, Joe, come here. Come here.

I love you bro,
no matter fucking what.

We're in this.
It's not done yet.

I love you, bro.

Pick your brothers up.
Pick your brothers up.

I love you. Come on. Let's go.

Come on. Let's go. Let's go.

Hold y'all heads up.

Hold your heads up!

It's not done!

Walker, voice-over: Once
we lost, everybody was like,

"oh, well, king is just like
how they were last year,"

and, "you know,
they're not good."

We lost because of
our mental mistakes.

Germantown came over.

That's when the rivalry
started going back and forth.

We argue a lot.

See, I'm a germantown alum,

and us and king,
we couldn't stand each other.

I'll support him, but I'm
not gonna wear them colors.

You know, I'm so green
and white.

I can't wear the colors.

Y'all start off 0-2.

If we lose again,

we're pretty much
out the playoffs.

So we have to win every game.

Let's go, girls.
Good morning, deja.

Show it. Show it.

I got a pass.

Get to class now.

Hey, Mr. Wade.

Hey, Kay, what's up?

Woman: Quiet, guys.

So the vikings
are part of the group

that came in and took over
Great Britain.

Come in, coach Dunn.

Coach, hey, how you doing, man?

Good morning.

I gave Dontae an award yesterday

for perfect attendance,
and he's not here.

I just left his class.
He's not in class.

I'll call him. I'll call his mom.
I'll get on him right now.

Yeah, please.

Hey, jounieta, it's coach Dunn.

Hey, is Dontae with you?

Ok. He's not in school,
and I'm trying

to figure out where he's at.

Let me know if you
hear anything.

All right. Thank you.

Angus, voice-over:
I was always the biggest,

any school I went to.

In first grade, I was
my teacher's size, I swear.

I wanted to lose weight.
So I lost weight riding bikes.

Wearing that sweat suit,
riding in the hot sun,

I fell in love with bikes.

I was never fighting.
I was always quiet in my class.

Then, you know, people
started taking advantage,

like, "he's big, so I guess
if I fight him, I'll be popular."

They'll have respect for me."

I don't know.

People always tried
to challenge me.

I got bullied.

Call me, "you fat this,
you fat that."

You're like a gorilla."

That's what really pissed me off
right there.

I was ready to drop out
of school, leave school.

I was ready to be done.

This is gonna be a rough season.

The team, they'll
do things together,

like work out together,
and I never get invited.

I feel, like, left out.

It's because, I guess,
I don't get girls

or I don't fit the part, like
I'm not cool enough, whatever.

When I'm by myself,
I just sit down

and think about everything,
and I end up crying.

We don't have a lot
of announcements.

First of all,
this morning, you're going

to introduce yourself
and let the student body know

that you'll be doing
the morning announcements, ok?

You always open with a tag line
that I always say...

"it's another wonderful day here

"at the promise academy

at Martin Luther King
high school."

Say that quickly.

It's another wonderful day

at the promise academy.

Ok.

Girl on P.A.: Good morning.

It's another wonderful day
at the king promise academy.

Take your belt off.

Take your earrings off,
your jewelry.

Wait. Go back through.

Those boots, metal tips.
Step back through.

Henderson: Got to
talk to you, man.

Dunn: I'm gonna talk to you.

No. It's important, like
me-and-you conversation.

It's important.

Henderson, voice-over: I feel
close to coach Dunn, seriously.

I have a feeling
like he's my family.

We talk about a lot of stuff,
you know,

a lot of stuff you wouldn't
talk to coaches about.

A lot of stuff happened that
a lot of people don't know.

You know, I walk the halls,

and people don't know
what my past was.

Just by looking at me, you can't
tell what my past was.

I look like my life would be
picture perfect, you know?

Woman: That's adoption day.

Henderson, voice-over:
I live with my adoptive parents.

My mom, my biological mom,
she's in prison since I was 4.

Me and my brother and my sister,
we all got split up.

Remember that first day
I came over?

I was in your room
under your chair.

Man, voice-over: Raising
black boys is a critical thing

because they can go through
so much in this world.

His mom is my cousin.

So when she had some troubles,

I didn't want the state
to take him.

So we kind of went there
and rescued him

and thought in the beginning
it would just be

for a short period of time
till she got her act together.

That never materialized.

He had already been
through something traumatic

with his biological father...
Abuse, physical abuse.

Sal, voice-over: I have a lot
of stuff on my shoulders, and,

I mean, football is the only
thing making it better.

Dunn: Sal's father
called me and let me know

that early this morning,
the police came into their home,

you know, guns drawn
looking for sal.

They arrested him, you know,
pulled him out of his sleep,

and took him down
to, you know, the precinct.

Woman: Sal was charged
with robbery, conspiracy,

and possession
of an instrument of crime.

The victim's cell phone
was stolen,

and some person allegedly
showed her a knife.

Sal is not the person alleged

to have either taken the phone
or showed the knife.

Allegations are really
just that he was there.

Dunn, voice-over:
When stuff like that happens,

I feel personally responsible,

but, you know,
it's not over yet.

So whatever I need to do
going into the future for him

or for whoever, I'm gonna be
even more committed to it now.

Dunn: Why are the linemen tired?

You did nothing,
and you're walking.

You don't want it bad enough.

Everybody content
with being below average.

I'm not content with it.

This is what we come from.
This is what belongs to us.

This, this is your land.

We come from humility.

This is not a private school.

We ain't got Nike
practice jerseys,

pants, and the whole 9.

We got mismatched cleats.

We go to different schools,
difficult situations,

but that's not what
makes us weak.

That's what makes us stronger
than everybody else.

This should be your motivation.
This is not an excuse.

This should be your motivation.

Humility.
That's why we get in this dirt.

That's why we get on this hill,
so we remain humble.

Nobody is above this hill.

Nobody is above this dust,
this dirt, this grime.

We got our backs
against the wall.

Backs is already
against the wall.

We dug ourself a hole being 0-2.

So now we need
every single one of these.

We got one more chance,
one more chance to turn it up.

Lost this last year, and
this year, we need it.

Yeah. They owe us some wins.

Announcer:
Both these teams are 0-2.

3 losses in a season

is a death sentence
in this league.

It's nearly impossible
to come back from 3 losses

and have any hope
of making the playoffs.

Dunn: If we stay in as a family,
don't point fingers,

pull your brother up,
don't pull him down,

we'll be all right.

Y'all trust me? Yes, coach.

Y'all with me? Yes, coach.

You feel me, right?

Yes, coach.

Let's act like it, man.
Family on 3, yo.

1, 2, 3. Family.

Dunn: Let's go, let's go,
let's go.

Yo, yo, yo.

Announcer: Mlk kicks off.

Oh, what a hit.

Quarterback looking to throw...

And it's intercepted,

number 21 with
some running room.

Right. 536, option on one.

Right there.

Announcer: Walker
back to throw, looking.

He's gonna fire this one deep,

and this is Delane hart.

Touchdown mlk.

Hut!

Announcer:
Congrats to the cougars.

They win their first game
in two years.

That's what I'm talking about.

Y'all better sound off
like y'all like winning.

Who the kings? We the kings.

Who the kings? We the kings.

Who the kings? We the kings.

Who the kings? We the kings.

We the kings.
We the kings. We the kings.

Who the kings? We the kings.

Who the kings? We the kings.

Who the kings? We the kings.

Who the kings? We the kings.

K-i-n-g. King!

Voice on phone:
You have a collect call

from the Philadelphia industrial
correctional center.

This call may be monitored
or recorded.

Dunn: What happened?

Sal: I was in quarantine
for, like, 13 days.

I was just by myself.

All I can think about is
the football team every day.

You know, I feel terrible,

and I wish I could help more.

I need to put some
cleats on, some equipment.

Looking forward
to touching grass again.

I held down your number, man.

Ain't nobody wear your number

since you've been gone.

Been gone for too long.

You'll be in my thoughts,

and we'll work through this.

Dunn, voice-over:
I think about sal every day.

He was in the wrong place
at the wrong time.

He got a raw deal.

It's because of the expectation
that our society has

for the kids that grow up
in our community.

Make sure you represent
yourself properly.

Represent the colors
that you got on,

the name you got
on the front of your Jersey.

Represent your family.

Everybody's palms
on the goal line.

We do pushups, we spell out
"humble and hungry"...

H-u-m-b-l-e,

"and," a-n-d,

"hungry" h-u-n-g-r-y.

If you cannot spell,
just say, "uh!"

I know a lot of y'all
do that, anyway.

"Uh! Uh! Uh!"

All right. Everybody up.

Spell it out. Down.

H... Down.

U... Down.

M... Down.

B... Down.

I... Down.

E... Down.

A... Down.

N... Down.

D... Down.

Down, up. 3...

Down, up. 4...

Down, up. 5...

Down, up. 6...

Down, up. 7...

Down, up. 8...

Down, up. 9...

Down, up. 10...

Let's go. Running.

Set.

Hut! Hut!

Aah! Let's go!

Yo.

Announcer: And the cougars
win big, 34-8.

Dunn: Keep running!

Now it's just a matter
of tomorrow.

You gonna be hungry enough
to take what you want.

Walker: Hut.

Man: Dig in. There you go.

Dunn: We'll take it.
I'll take that. I'll take that.

Dunn: Yeah, baby!
Let's go! Let's go.

Let's go, let's go!
Let's go, let's go!

Go! Aah!

Let's go!

Let's go!

Hit it.

Hit it.

3...

4...

Hike.

Announcer: And he is going
to go all the way.

This will be a 95-yard return
for an mlk touchdown,

fourth consecutive victory
for mlk.

Yes!

Yeah, young bull!

Lead it, baby!

Lead it, baby! Let's go.

Announcer: Walker is back.
He's looking to throw.

The cougars are heading
to the playoffs.

Dunn: I told y'all today
it was dinner time.

I told y'all today
it was dinner time.

We've been hungry
for a long time.

Guess what? We still hungry.

We go humble and hungry.

H-u-m-b-l-e...

Coach, what happened
to the field?

Why didn't you tell me?

I'd have bought you
some sod out here

or something, huh?

Dunn: Break it down.

Your families have seen
success in you this year.

They've never
experienced before.

You're a much better
team than what you were

when I was at that first game
and you lost to gratz.

So it's been in you all along.

It's been in you all along.

I played for germantown in 1975.

Germantown had history,
99 years of history.

Everything comes to an end.

So take this end
and make it your beginning.

Germantown-king,
it sends a message

that we're successful.

This means a lot to me.

It means a lot to the school
district of philadelhia.

It means a lot
to the rest of the nation

as they watch what
you're doing this year.

Woman: Let me say this
loud and clear.

When our children are failed,
we all suffer.

We can't keep settling for this.

We can't do it.

We've suffered enough
in Philadelphia.

Hite: My vision for the district
was not to close schools.

My vision, quite simply,
is that all students

need to be achieving,

regardless
of economic background,

family circumstances,
or zip code.

Next speaker is Michelle grace.

My name is Michelle grace.

I'm a graduate of
germantown high school.

In addition to being a student
of germantown high school,

I was one
of the student athletes.

I played on the football team,
and I went all-public,

and I was the first girl
in the city to carry the ball.

Now I am the assistant coach
for my rivals

Martin Luther King Jr.
High school, for the cougars.

For the players themselves,

their biggest fear
wasn't even the rivalry.

It was having football
taken away

because when the doomsday budget
was announced,

we didn't have football.

We didn't have sports, period,
and we had to make a decision

as a coaching staff
to have practice, anyway.

Not just Martin Luther King,
but every other school

who has a football team
or who has athletic departments,

without football,
without basketball,

without softball or baseball,

these students have no reason
to go to school.

They have no reason to behave
or to pay attention.

Being a student athlete
made me a student,

made me who I was,

and now I'm about
to get my degree,

and I can't say the same
for people

who didn't have
the motivation I had.

It needs to be a priority.

Man: Some of the money
Philly school leaders

have been begging for
is on its way.

And it will bring 400 teachers
back into the school system.

Woman: It will also fund music

and athletic programs
for the year.

Wade: Congratulations, man.

Good news? Good news.

You're back.

Great, great, great, great.

You're back, man.

Just got the confirmation
from downtown.

I'm glad you stayed with us
throughout this whole process.

Girl on P.A.:
Good morning, everybody.

It's another wonderful day
at the promise academy.

Students, in the morning
when getting ready for school,

please remember
our uniform policy,

which is tan pants
and your grade-colored t-shirts.

These pants are too tight.

My pants too tight?

Girl on P.A.: Now we will
begin our interview

with head coach coach Dunn.

How are you today, coach Dunn?

I'm going great, doing great.

So tell me about yourself.

This was my neighborhood
school growing up.

I started playing
football in high school.

I loved playing football,
but more importantly,

I know the impact
my coaches had on me

growing into a young man,
and I wanted to give back

and give that experience
to other young men.

Mm-hmm. Thank you
so much coach Dunn,

for coming down and having
this interview with us,

and I hope you have a nice day.

Remember, staff and students,

everything we do here at king

is aligned with student success.

So set the example, and
don't be made an example.

Have a great day, guys.

Good job.

You're pretty good at that, huh?

Rob: Just want to do a prayer.
Be with us, dear god.

Protect us, dear god,
and guide us, dear lord.

Protect sal through
this situation, father god.

We praise your name, father god.

We love you. We honor your name.

Amen, father, amen.

Rob, voice-over: We believe
in our kid. He's innocent.

It hurts us to see him
in this situation.

Woman, voice-over:
We're hoping that

all of this is actually
thrown out.

He was just in the wrong place
at the wrong time.

He wants to come home.

He wants to go to school.

Both: He wants to play football.

Hi.

Glad you're home, sal.
Can I give him a hug?

Man: Absolutely.

He's gonna be all
yours in a minute.

Ok.

You have a probation
officer, right?

Yvette: He'll stay in the house?

At all times unless he's
scheduled to go outside.

Ok.

Wade: So you're here now,
and you are way behind.

You are not to let anybody

distract from why
you're really here.

We're gonna put him
on a pathway for success.

Great.

If he stays on it... great.

It's up to him.

It's up to him.

He has to come up and start
making gains right now, ok?

We're gonna occupy
most of his day.

Teacher: When it's quiet,
guys, we can start reading.

"Is he to be buried in
a Christian burial

"where she willfully
seeks her own salvation?

How can that be unless
she"... what's that word?

"Drowned her... drowned
herself in her own defense.

I must be"... hey, miss?
What's that word, miss?

Teacher: "Se offendo."

"Se offendo."

Yo, I'm not reading any more because
I'm not dealing with this, yo.

Like real shit, yo.

It's gonna be like
this the whole time.

Teacher: Dontae, what
do you want to do?

I'm not reading
no more, man. I'm done.

Teacher: Who wants to
take over as first clown?

Student: Me.

Teacher: Ok, he was saying... ok.

It must be "se offendo."
It cannot be...

Cottle: So... so let me
tell you what happened

with Florida, ok?

Let me tell you
what really happened.

When his grades for
the first semester

came out, they said
that's enough.

They said that's it.
That's enough.

Wade: Take your hat off, Dontae
Angus, and put that phone up.

He knows better. Give it to me.

Wade: Did you see
his progress report?

Mother: No.

Wade: University of Florida
is off the table.

He's been absent 16 days
from first period,

and he is consistently
late for class.

Fails to seek help.

Has missed tests and is in
danger of failing.

He cannot fail another course.

We're gonna get in a position

where we're gonna be hoping and
wishing for miracles for Dontae.

He's going to back himself
in a corner,

and he's not gonna be
able to even graduate

if he doesn't
step it up right now.

You're not meeting
anyone halfway, Dontae.

You're not doing what you're
supposed to do.

Dunn: Run it out.

Assistant coach: Come on.

Cottle: You're wasting
time, Dontae.

Get your helmet, your shoulder
pads, and get on the hill!

Assistant coach: What you guys
learn from is practicing hills.

Everyone from defense messed up,
everyone has to pay.

They don't need me for defense.

Dunn: When you do stuff like
give half effort, you talk back,

you know, you're letting
your teammates down.

You got to make a decision whether you
gonna be a part of this team or not.

Because I know you want
to play football,

but I'm not sure if you want
to be a part of this team.

Dunn: You're not blocking
anything!

That's not blocking!
Get in the huddle.

Come on, Dontae.
You're not blocking him.

You got to play more physical.

Play more physical!
Get him down!

See you tomorrow.
Go home. Good-bye.

I'll see you tomorrow.
Peace. Put your stuff up.

Oh, shit, man.

They don't know what
I'm going through,

and they won't never understand.

Might as well give it up.

Give what up?
I'm giving nothing up.

Ok, well stop complaining.

What you mean, "stop com..."

there you... yo, I'm out.

I'm not gonna sit here
and argue.

Talk about, "give it up, man"?
I don't give up.

You're not listening.

Do you give up when you
put your mind to something?

No, but what I'm saying to you...

Why you telling me to give up?
How you sound?

Calm down.

I'm not telling you to
give up on your dream.

Make it happen,
despite of all that's going on.

They know how I am.
Just piss me off.

Well, sometimes bite your
tongue and do what you're...

I'm not biting my tongue.

No, you're not listening.

Sometimes just keep your trap
shut, you understand?

Push yourself to get
where you have to go.

It starts here in high school.

Wade on P.A.:
10 seconds to get to class.

10 seconds to get to class.

If you are caught
in the hallway between period,

you will be documented,
and interventions

will be put in place
for those of you

that cannot get to class
on time.

If you do not want to be
involved in this process,

get to class on time.

Woman: Yeah. Good morning.

I mean, good afternoon.
Miss whittaker.

Hi, miss whittaker.

Oh, yes, you have
until 7:00, ok?

So today I can go to practice?

Yes. Ok.

Whittaker: But do not,
repeat, do not be late.

They have a zero
tolerance policy,

and I'm not here to save you.

Ok.

You're a minute late,
you might be arrested.

Thank you.

All right.

All right, bye.

That's all!

Teacher:
Pull your pants up, son.

I get to practice today.

I'm putting my, look,
my pants like this.

I'm gonna hold the loop.

Get a belt.

You don't got to pull
it over. That's cool.

Dunn: Come on, yo. Hurry up.

Welcome back.

Assistant coach: All right,
let's welcome sal back.

Set. Hut.

Assistant coach: Good work, sal.

Dunn: Washington right 331.

Washington right 331, 802.
Sal on "y," right?

Is speedy in for sal?

Dunn: Sal is at the "z."
Speedy is at the "y." Yeah.

That's where I come
like this, right?

Set, hut.

Player: Oh, my god.
What the fuck?

Dunn: Back up, back up.
You don't need to see. Back up.

Sal.

Sal, sal?

Sal?

Assistant coach: Give him a minute.
Give him a minute.

Turn his head to the side.

Sal?

He's got to get some air.

There you go.

Ha ha ha! Get that
mouthpiece out of his mouth.

Welcome back, baby.

Breathe, sal. You all right.

Breathe. Just breathe, sal.

In through the nose, out through the mouth.
Just breathe.

Stay still. Stay still.
Don't move.

You're all right, sal.
Take your time.

Sal: Oh, shit.

Yeah, "oh, shit."

You know what happened? No, ma'am.

You don't know what happened?

I just scored.

Assistant coach: That's right.
Touchdown, baby.

All right, relax. Just relax.

He just said he blacked out.
He doesn't have any neck pain, right?

No neck pain?

Grace: No.

Are you dizzy? Can you stand up?

Yeah, he's dizzy.

Ok. I'll bring him
to the hospital.

Help him get to his stuff.
Help him get to his stuff, y'all.

Why was he going full
contact a day before a game?

Shouldn't let this happen, yo.

When you're doing
full contact, yo...

We wasn't going full contact.

Especially in practice, yo.

Yo, we wasn't going
full contact.

Fucking can't let
things like this happen, yo.

You're tripping.

Dunn: Dontae, come here.
Bring Dontae here.

Assistant coach:
I got him. I got it.

No, no, bring him here.
Dontae, come here.

Everybody's upset. Calm down.

Calm down.

Sal's all right. Just calm down.

It don't matter, yo.

This could happen
to anybody, yo.

You're right. It can.

Any day, every day, first to play the
game, last to play the game.

It don't matter.

It shouldn't happen in no
fucking practice neither, man.

Calm down.

It's practice, yo.

You're right.

Made a mistake and hit him, man.
That's what happens.

It happens.

Dunn: All right, y'all.

Pick your heads up.
Pick your heads up.

This is nothing new to us, you know,
having our backs against the wall.

Since September 1, our backs been
against the wall, so it's nothing new.

What we're gonna do
is we're gonna rally,

we're gonna step up,
pull each other up.

It's time to rally.

All we got is us.

Hey, sharrif.

You're in Philly
this weekend, right?

Ok.

Um, one of my boys, I don't know
if you remember Dontae.

You are his idol, and he's just
having a really tough time.

Like you know, he's been like,
he's been acting out in school,

he's been acting up
on the field,

like things just haven't
been going well for him.

If I can get you to even have
a conversation with him...

So, what do you think?

Wow.

This is crazy.

I need me a house like this.

Grace: Dontae. Angus: Yo.

Come here.

Sweet. Ah...

What do you say, man?

How everything going?

Angus: There's all
this pressure on me.

All this pressure.

Everybody's saying it's
up to me to qualify,

but I got two folders full of
work I got to do for both class...

Like English and pre calc.

When it came to ball,
I knew it was one thing

that was gonna keep me
from playing the sport,

and that was my grades.

Get it done, man.

Stress. I blocked that out.

I ain't got no time for that.

Affect the game.

No matter what's going on.

Just step back away from the
team and look at your boys.

How do you affect them?

How does your attitude
carry over into the team?

You're their leader,

so when they see you bitching,

they're gonna start bitching,

and when they see you
giving it all,

they gonna give it
all right with you.

Going in there with a mindset
of already being stressed

and already feeling like you
got a lot on your shoulders,

you're gonna be
right back in Philly.

You don't want to be like
everybody else in the hood

that didn't make it and
come home saying "yeah",

"I coulda did this,

I coulda did that,
only if I would have did this."

No. Start with you.

Put your head down and grind.

That's all you got to do,
and they all will respect you.

All right. All right.

Just seeing him, my role model,
it's just motivation.

I want to get where he's at.

I want to play
against him one day.

That's gonna happen.

I'm gonna play against
sharrif Floyd.

Announcer: All right.
High school football,

the public league semi-finals.

Winner of this game will go

to the public league
championship game.

It is the electrons
of Benjamin Franklin

and the cougars
of Martin Luther King

in a close game here at
the start of the second half.

Let's go!

Announcer:
Franklin has the ball.

Fumble. Loose ball.

And it's going to be
mlk first down.

Yes!

Announcer: Let's see what they
can do with this opportunity.

Ford in the open field.

Ford to the 30, the 20, the 10...

He's down at the goal line.

Fake 34 and left Powell.

What you go with?
What you go with?

Uptown, right,
fake 34, left Powell.

Uptown, right, fake 34,
and left Powell.

Let's go!

Announcer: First and goal.
Only inches to go.

Touchdown ml...

Fumble, fumble.
It's being called a fumble.

It was down! It was down!

Yo.

The ball was on the ground
in the end zone!

How? How is it not a touchdown?

The ball was down on the
ground in the end zone.

Knocked the ball out...

It did not knock the ball out!

Back off.

That's a horrible call!
It's a horrible call!

Horrible! Horrible!

Announcer: Definitely
a questionable call, John.

John: I don't know
about that one.

A huge momentum shift.

Keep your head on, Dunn.

You start getting fucked up,
the whole team will get fucked up.

Yo. Yo, come here.

Keep your head, yo,
keep your head, yo.

Chill out, yo.

They took that shit away.
We're gonna get it back.

They took it away.
We're gonna get it back.

Let's go!

We go family on 3. 1, 2, 3.

All: Family!

Let's go, Dontae.

Let's do it, Dontae.

Grab it back, Dontae.

Grab it, Dontae!

Announcer: Angus barreling
through the line...

And it's intercepted.
Mlk's got the football.

That's you. That's you.
That's you.

Uh!

Good job, big guy.

Good job up front.

Let's go. Let's win this, man.

Announcer: Cougars now
with a chance to win it.

Last play. Walker setting up.

Hike.

Touchdown mlk.

Mlk wins the game.

Announcer: The cougars are headed
for their first-ever championship.

Hold it, hold it.

Guys, guys, guys.

Listen, listen.
I got a quick announcment.

Because you guys have won

and we're going to the public
league championships

next, next week,
we'll be practicing

at the supersite tonight.

Y'all got ways out that
other people would dream of.

Y'all don't just have
normal ways out.

Y'all got a guaranteed
lottery ticket.

You will get a free college
education if nothing else.

I'm telling you, man,
you going to the NFL.

You gonna go to the NFL.

You work hard, you gonna
go to the NFL, man.

Aa notes.

"The cougars have
now won 9 straight

"since losing to mastery north

"back in September 6.

"It truly depends
on what they do

"up front in the trenches.

Dontae Angus needs to have
the game of his life."

It's all about the line, though.

If our line competes,
we gonna win this game.

It's going, it's going,
it's going to send

shock waves throughout
not just the city.

We win this game,
then the whole state

is talking about us.

Show me. Show me.

Come on. Show me.

Show me.

Come on. Show me.

Let's go. Show me.

Come on, Dontae. Show me.

This is what it's
gonna be all week.

This is what it's
gonna be all week.

Ain't nobody backing down.

Come on. Come on,
come on, come on.

Dunn: We got the news that sal's
medically been cleared to play.

Obviously, he brings a lot
to the table.

We're gonna need all the help
that we can get

to pull off
a victory this weekend.

Right in the bucket.

Sal: People always wondering why I
put so much in football, you know.

It's like, "football's not gonna
do nothing for you."

I have a football team.

I want to be a part
of every team,

be a part of the family.

Angus: This is
a championship game.

My first championship.

I've never been to championship.

My first.

I'm going 1,000%
because I want this jacket.

I want this ring.

When I, when I
finish high school,

I want to leave with a jacket
knowing that I won something.

I did something.

For me to come from germantown
and then join with the enemy

and make the enemy family,
it feel good.

I had a great year.

I love all y'all.

I want to apologize
for all the stuff

I put y'all through this season.

I'm gonna miss all y'all.

Man: We had to prove a lot
of people wrong this year.

No one expected us to win.

Let's make winning a new
tradition around here at king.

Dunn: It's been a long season.
There's been a lot of practices.

I know you're tired.
I know you're fatigued.

This is not the time
to get tired.

This is the time that
you got to suck it up.

Y'all got to turn up.

Can't nobody play
this game for y'all.

Stakes don't get no higher
than the championship.

Stakes don't get
no higher than this.

Announcer: The cougars
of mlk high school

in their first-ever Philadelphia
public league championship game.

Yay, sal.

Woman: ♪ let's go, cougars ♪

Announcer: And look
who they're up against.

Mastery north, who handed them

their second defeat
of the season.

Look, now scream. Say, "dad."

Dad, dad.

No, you got to be louder.

Oh! Oh!

Hut.

Man: Oh! Where's the ball?

Come on.

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Man: We're getting
our asses kicked.

Defensive tackles,
you're coming up too high,

and you're getting
knocked off the ball.

Get up right now.
We need to score.

Let's go. 38, 38, 38, 38.

38 foot, 38 foot, yo. 38 foot.

Announcer: End of
the first half.

You got an opportunity now.

The whole city looking at us.

The whole city looking at us.

They're expecting us to fall.

Who cares?

When they knock you down,
you get up

and you ask for some more.

Y'all want to know why I coach
the way I coach y'all?

For games like this.

That's why we practice
in the snow.

That's why
we practice in the rain.

That's why we practice
in 20-degree weather.

Humility.
Not only playing for yourself,

but playing for the man
right next to you.

Sacrificing for the man
next to you.

That's brotherhood.

This is the game.

It ain't nothing to save it for.

It ain't nothing to save it for.

Leave every single thing
out there.

It's the opportunity to show
the world who we are.

Show the city who we are.

Show them what we do as king.

Let them know if they don't
already know.

Who's king? All: We king.

Who's king? We king.

Who's king. We king.

Let's go.

Yo, sal, come here.

All right, sal!

Announcer: Sal Henderson
lining up as a receiver

for this play.

Long pass.

Caught by sal Henderson.

Cougars now in scoring range.

Touchdown cougars.

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Let's go!

Announcer: Wham! A big sack
by Dontae Angus.

Just blowing through
the offensive line.

Yes. Come on.

You've made history today.

You did what many people
around the country

struggle to do.

You showed the world

how two schools
can come together,

how two neighborhoods
can come together,

families can
come together and win.

You are the piaa
public league...

Dunn: I keep telling
people we've got

the toughest bunch of kids
in the city.

They proved it again today.

We've got the toughest
kids in the city.

All we got to do
is cultivate them.

They've got so much potential.

You think you've seen something
on that football field?

Watch the next 20 years
of these kids' lives.

I'm gonna be a part of every
single one of their lives

as long as I've got
breath in my lungs.

When we get a new set next year,
we're gonna grow them up, too.

That's what we're gonna do.

It's one way...

You get from where we started
to where we are right now.

It's one formula.

It's been one formula
since day one.

Y'all been there
with me since day one.

Y'all my little
brothers forever, for life.

I love every single
one of you all.

It's one formula.

All you got to do is start
and stay humble.

You got to stay hungry.

And if you work your tail off,
you'll play games like this.

You'll step up at moments
like this.

I love every single
one of y'all.

Make y'all humble and hungry.

Everybody up.

Down. All: "H"...

Down. "U"...

Down. "M"...

Down. "B"...

Down. "I"...

Down. "E"...

Down. "A"...

Down. "N"...

Down. "D"...

Down. "H"...

Down. "U"...

Down. "N"...

Down. Down. Down.

Cottle: He might be our
quarterback next year.

He might be safety.

He might be our
number-one receiver.

He might be a lot of things.

He's not a division 2 player.

He's a 1aa.

He's a 1aa football player.

White: We'd take him
in a heartbeat.

I'll be in touch.

Damn. What? What?

That just said "end of lesson."

Please move on to the test."

Come in a little closer.
Right there.

There's talk of having to
eliminate sports.

Kids wouldn't paint their face,

they wouldn't participate
in spirit week

when I first took over.

This week they were buzzing
at 7:30.

Face painting, school colors.

It was pride. I am saying that.

It brought a tear to my eye.

Girl: Quick announcement.

After 9:15 today, there will be

no more purchases for
the pep rally tickets.

We all need to be there,
show support,

turn up, have your colors on,

have your little flags on,
have your...

Whatever y'all need to do.

Turn up for this
because... you already know...

They did it.

Let's turn up, y'all.

Bang bang, cougar gang.

So have a great day
and set the example,

don't be made an example.

Bye, y'all.

Man: And now your Martin Luther
king 2014 football team.

Dunn: Come on. Let's go, let's go,
let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.

Come on.

Man: The city of Philadelphia
wants to give us something.

"By accepting the challenges
presented by

"political circumstances beyond
their control,

"we hereby recognize and honor

the Martin Luther King
high school football team."

This is the culmination of work
that we've not only been doing

over the last couple months, but
for a lot of these young men,

for years.

Man: And now we have 9 young men
that are gonna be

signing letters of intent.

I'll be attending
shippensburg university.

Cheyney university.

I'm going to alderson broaddus
university to play football.

Playing college football
at bloomsburg university.

My name is Joseph Walker.

I'll be attending
university of Delaware.

My name's Dontae Angus.

I will be attending
West Virginia university.

Wade: All right, a big round of
applause for all of our seniors.