This episode focuses around Homecoming and they talk about the past and how it compares to today. The show similarly starts off by talking about the head coach but from a couple of decades ago. They are talking about the former coach Bull and how hard he was on them, but how they were better because of it. Which is similar to the way that Buddy coaches. They are extremely hard on their players and they always expect a lot from them. Which is the same attitude the whole town has for them. The town is very proud of their team. They are all about their football team and in return expect a lot from them. We also find out the Co-Lin played two ineligible players in their first couple of games and that they either had to forfeit their first three games or forfeit the rest of the season. So, the team may be getting their undefeated streak back.
This episode focuses a lot around the players grades and them going to class. Especially DJ Law. He is missing many classes and is on the verge of being dropped from several of them. He is also not doing well grade wise. This is worsened by the fact that he gets injured in this week’s game and is told that he can’t play for two weeks. This completely crushes his spirit and he no longer wants to even go to school and is potentially ruining the rest of his school year and football season.
This weeks football game starts out with the team playing how everyone expects them to play. They don’t make many mistakes and they are winning by a couple of touchdowns going into the half. After the half is when thing go a little sideways. I think that Wagner put it best. That when you play the way that they do and they run the score up on teams for as long as they have been that the other teams just get tired of it, and start to take cheep shots on them and they started to fight back. Two players were ejected from the game but none of the players from the other team were ejected. It escalated to the point to were buddy got into it with a ref and the ref ended up ejected from that game and buddy was asked to leave. Buddy ended up being suspended for two weeks which means that he can’t be at the next two games and was forced to watch them at home.
The episode ended with them comparing now to how they were in the past. By telling the story of how Bull got fired because the school was worried about his temper. Which they seem to have been comparing him to Buddy the whole episode and they probably picked Bull for that reason. Which makes it seems that they may be leading to Buddy getting fired.
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