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Besides, now that I kneas a fas seemed different He wouldn’t want h to know the drill They were multi-millionaires They kept their distance frolers wouldn’t be any different If I remembered, they had their own dance squad, the Fillies, who probably filled the same role we did

I presseddeep breaths until the stadiu I could hear was the sound of et ether

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Sam

One month later

My naer across the letters I remembered the first time I walked in the locker room as a rookie and saw any cubby Hard to believe that was over a year ago

Everything was here ready to go My cleats,out lined up I picked up the hel the lights overhead This place was immaculate I loved it Every square inch of it It was always lers

How could a kid grow up in Texas and not want to play Texas football? My grandfather played My dad played And now I played This was ler

Some days, it didn’t feel real But here I was, about to suit up for today’s gaainst the Warriors

Cavan dropped his bag next to me “Can you believe we’ve won four in a row?”

“Nice being on a championship team, isn’t it?”

I only had one season undernext to the rookie, I felt experienced I was on the winning team He hadn’t earned that honor yet

“Yeah Wouldn’t trade it for the world”

“Today will make five” After we ran up the scoreboard on thea the season five and O

“You going to be at the Dean, right?” he asked