If you like OT?

[Steven Tyler]

This should do the trick for you.

I traveled out to East Texas, to Stephen F. Austin University, with some past friends who I graduated with, and who also graduated from the university. It happened to be homecoming weekend at SFA also, which is the reason I went. I did attend two sessions of summer school there the summer I graduated from high school. Just wanted to go back and see how the place looked.

Now for the good part. We decided to attend the local high school game that Friday evening between the Nacogdoches Dragons and the Jacksonville Indians. The game started off like a Jacksonville runaway, as they scored two quick touchdowns in the opening minutes. However, the Dragons came back in the second half to tie the score 28-28 by the end of regulation.

Wait, it gets even better. To be able to make the playoffs, Nacogdoches not only had to defeat Jacksonville, but per district rules, also had to win the contest by at least 8 points to keep alive their slim hopes of making the playoffs.

That's when all the festivities really started due to the tie-breaker rules. In the overtimes that proceeded, Nacogdoches let Jacksonville score deliberately three times on touchdown plays of 25 yards. Also, to keep the Dragons playoff hopes alive, they also intentionally botched three extra point attempts. Finally in OT number 12, Nacogdoches fumbled and the ball was recovered by Jacksonville. The Indians then drove to the Dragon 2 yard line. With fourth down looming, Jacksonville made a short field goal to salt away the victory.

Start of game: 7:30 PM
End of game: 12:54 AM

Final score.

Jacksonville-84
Nacogdoches-81

I got more than my $6.00 worth to say the least.