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Meridian Elementary School Football Team
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This segment features footage of the Meridian Elementary School football team.
This segment of WQED Weekly features footage from the Meridian Elementary School football team’s practice and game against East Butler Elementary School. It includes interviews with one of the coaches and some of the team members’ parents about what being on the team teaches the kids.
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Meridian Elementary School Football Team
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This segment of WQED Weekly features footage from the Meridian Elementary School football team’s practice and game against East Butler Elementary School. It includes interviews with one of the coaches and some of the team members’ parents about what being on the team teaches the kids.
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What do you want.
Come on, Joe, you got to get the first one right to get the rest right.
Okay.
Keep it up, Bobby.
Get it up!
Bobby!
Come on, get it going.
Go!
Well, go!
Every frustrated ass lady wants to be, Vince Lombardi, you know?
So maybe this is what we are.
I don't know, but we have a lot of fun in it.
We enjoy with it.
Enjoy it.
We were late.
Good to the kids.
We feel it.
The kids like us.
Come on again.
One.
Okay.
All right, let's go.
Come on.
Joe.
If you guys as a defense, don't put any pressure on them.
They can't do anything.
Yeah, right.
Come on, boy.
All right, all right.
Only way to fight, Paul.
fight out there.
All right.
Start looking, watching here.
Look.
Oh.
Hold it.
Oh, we can't we can't run that play, if you're going to continue to do that.
You moved it out that at that time.
Won't hurt you throwing the quarterback's time off.
You get your head on this side of me like here.
So he could turn.
Okay.
Huddle up.
Okay.
Come on, come on.
What's your excuse now?
Oh.
Get these right.
1, 2, 3, 4, Victory!
But you're going to have to go out here and start thinking this game that that you want this game and want it worse than they do.
But I'm going to tell you right now they're going to be up for you.
If you guys ain't ready, you're going to be in trouble, because I'll guarantee you they want you because you know everybody in the league just a little bit higher for you guys than you are for others.
Because after all, you went undefeated the last two years.
You had a pretty good record.
So this is what you got to remember.
You got to fit in.
You guys ready?
Yeah!
Ready?
Yeah!
All right.
And you, our father, who are in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Amen.
Lets go out and play a good game tonight.
Win guys, let's go Go, go, Go!
I've got two on the team ones been on three years.
It means a lot of late suppers, but we're in it as a family, so we only eat one supper together.
Oh, I think it, teaches them sportsmanship and really to, get in and strive for something.
They want something bad enough, they can get it one at five holes.
We, six holes week.
Too slippery.
Too slippery.
Too slippery.
Yeah.
Get out That is the end of the first half.
We should play those younger kids because you discourage us that every time we try to make a move, you discourage us.
What are we supposed to do?
We've tried everything.
With you guys, we've done everything we possibly can for you guys to be a football team.
Listen, whatever we're running to do what we want.
We want that guy out of there.
Six yards.
Doug, we are fourth and we got fourth and a foot, and we can't even make a foot.
All that kid number 60.
He went in underneath you.
Me, the kid in the guard who was knocked down.
Somebody knocked him down and he got up, made the tackle.
Right.
He just.
So he just.
Submarine is all he did.
That's exactly what he did.
He just submarined him.
Didn't me tell you?
Bruce, you got to keep your head up.
You got to keep your eyes up.
And I'll tell you, they're hitting hard back there.
Hitting that, bumping him good.
They want to play the game.
They want to beat you shorts on them.
You know, they don't want to get even for that.
We want six.
Let's knock people down out there.
That's what we're calling up here.
You linemen.
You linemen get that.
We're going to return set up and let's get.. - You guys ready?
Yeah!
You ready?
Yeah!
You ready?
Yeah!
Its taught him responsibility.
When he signed up for football he knows that Monday through Friday he is responsible from 5:00 to 7 or 7:30 to go to practice.
He knows that he doesn't have time for other frivolous activities, and he's really accepted it.
And it has done a lot for him.
All right, Schultz, 20 say Let's get a good one.
up baby.
Get out come on One hit the ball carrier.
Let's get him.
Land a lot.
I want a keeper.
Get up, get up, get up baby.
On a yard.
Get in there.
Come on.
Defense for me.
Come on Bruce, get another on.
Come on Tommy, go defense now go strong.
Help me out of that play.
Come on.
You guys hit, it huh?
I'll tell you.
One Right.
Let's mix it up, guys, why don't you number one, you give us five minutes.
What?
You gave us five minutes but you play good for five.
Ten minutes of a set.
Yeah, anybody hurt?
Yeah.
Robby.
Right?
Wheres Robby at?
Yeah.
Okay.
Nice hit, Robbie Nelson.
Beautiful job on and good hit.
Nice catch.
Yeah, but remember what you do the last five, ten minutes of this game.
And you carry it over next week and play like that.
And you'll play like that the rest of the year.
But you have to have confidence in yourselves.
- Any way you can be proud of the last six, ten minutes.
You can be proud of that.
But don't be proud of the first three quarters, because that was terrible.
You think it was terrible, and now you ought to seen us out there.
He was almost man enough to eat nails or something, I don't know.
But anyway, okay.
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