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- [Narrator] Previously, on 4th and Forever.
- Let's go!
- [Narrator] Chemistry among Glades Central players
started to break down.
- The kids are really bickering amongst each other.
They're not really close as a unit.
- [Narrator] And the team disappointed
a fan base not accustomed to losing.
- My goodness!
- You lost a game, we maybe can tolerate that.
Anybody can make a mistake.
You lose more than one, you're outta here.
- That comes with the territory.
Football is life for a lot of people.
(energetic music)
- [Narrator] At Pahokee, the Blue Devils
reversed their fortunes with a two-game winning streak.
- Hell of a game, boy.
- We're starting to come together as the offense
putting the right people in the right places.
- [Narrator] And with the 40th Muck Bowl
inching ever closer, Coach Boldin
and his staff are hoping
to keep that momentum alive.
- There's no doubt in my mind,
we're clicking on all cylinders.
Guys are bodying, my coaches are bodying,
and now, we see where the chips fall,
come next Friday.
(calm melancholy music)
(kids chattering faintly)
- [Narrator] Football players in Muck City
begin their journeys here,
in city parks like Lakeshore Park and Belle Glade.
These are the athletic proofing grounds
of the Glades region in South Florida.
It's where talent first blossoms.
Where wide-eyed kids dream
of becoming Muck Bowl stars,
and where the all-time greats
return to give back.
- Yeah, I'm looking forward it like,
when I make it in the NFL,
coming back, helping the kids,
run routes, and stuff like that.
- [Narrator] Preparing the next generation for greatness
happens all over Muck City, especially in the schools,
where educators are on a mission to elevate academics
to an even higher level of greatness.
- That's the big thing.
We're looking at the big picture
'cause at the end of the day,
what really matters, we get these kids in school,
have good grades, and how they actually be a better man.
That's the real thing that we really care about.
- [Narrator] Good grades are a cornerstone
of grid iron success at both Glades Central and Pahokee.
Every player must maintain at least
a 2.0 grade point average.
Failure to do so results in the athlete
being ruled ineligible putting a potentially
budding career in jeopardy.
- You are a student athlete.
There's a different bracket for you.
- Probably the greatest talents
never got an opportunity to display it
on the big stage, or at college ranks,
and the pro ranks, because of their
lack of performance in the classroom.
- [Narrator] An ineligible player
can also put a team's entire season in jeopardy.
Under Florida high school rules,
allowing an academically ineligible player
to take the field, results in the automatic
forfeit of all games in which that player appeared,
even if the coaching staff had reason
to believe the student was in gacademic standing.
It's a brutal lesson, one that Glades Central
is about to learn the hard way.
Just two days before an away game
against another regional
pigskin powerhouse, Miami Pace.
- You know what I'm saying?
Winners or lose, you know what I'm saying?
I hope God is on our side for this.
- I just showed up at the practice,
a little practice at 14, I'm like
I'm glad to say now, immediately, yes.
- We got some bad news today.
Wasn't really what we was hoping for.
- According to an FHSAA report,
Glades Central had a player,
who did not meet a 2.0 GPA,
and Glades Central didn't know it.
So, all those games that player played in
have to be forfeited.
Glades Central went from being four and five
to being O and nine.
- [Narrator] As it turns out, the player in question
entered summer practice with a 2.4 GPA.
But when one of those grades was later
adjusted downward, his GPA fell to 1.9,
unbeknownst to both the player
and the Glades Central coaching staff.
- We come and find out that
we got great problems when we checked that
before the season started.
And all of a sudden, we come to now.
- As the coach, I'm devastated, I'm heartbroken.
But in life, you're gonna go through things,
where you're gonna be devastated,
you're gonna be heartbroken
but at the same time, life goes on.
So it's what do I do from this point on.
(whistle blaring)
- [Coach] Hey, bring it in, bring it in.
(whistle blaring)
- [Player] Hey, check your knees.
- [Coach] Check your knees, check your knees, hurry up.
- [Narrator] With Glade Central's
Head Coach Jessie Hester out of town,
tending to a family matter, it's up to his
assistant coaches to break the news to the team.
- I talked to Coach Jessie,
and this is what he said,
"Tell 'em guys to keep their head up."
- Listen up, listen up, listen up.
- You just explained to them, life has adversity,
you go through adversity,
and you defeat it, and you move on.
So our whole goal is just keep 'em motivated.
Forget about all this
has nothing to do with you guys.
People, season still goes on.
Season still goes on, and the whole thing
about the season going on is winning.
Just win, just win.
- [Narrator] Despite the setback
because of Glades Central's formidable
regular season schedule, and the fact
that all of their remaining games
are against divisional opponents,
it's still possible for the Raiders
to make a run at state championship,
even after forfeiting its first nine games.
- We just explained to them
that the whole thing is to just
play this next game, win it,
play the following game, win it,
make the playoff, nothing changes.
- [Narrator] But that means Glades Central
must overcome a strong Miami Pace team this week,
and then, defeat archrival Pahokee
in the annual Muck Bowl a week later.
- I know today, we got a big disappointment.
It hurt me too.
Understand this game of football, fella.
To play football, it require two thing.
It require your heart,
and you gotta be nuts.
Understand why I'm telling you this.
Got to be the first person
that hit somebody in the mouth.
You got to be nuts.
Your heart come in after he punch you back.
Are you gonna stay in the fight?
Are you gonna duck your tail and run?
- You guys still got a chance to make
the playoff, man, you're number six.
Not only that y'all know if y'all
get into Muck Bowl-- - Yeah.
- Pahokee is a 60.
If y'all beat them. - We knock them out.
- Responsibility, you knock 'em out the playoff.
- Let's crash the party.
I know they're gonna give it all they got.
They're trying to win.
We believe them, so I think we'll be okay.
- [Narrator] What's not okay
in the eyes of the coaching staff
is how the player's adjusted GPA
came to the attention of the Athletic Association
before they were notified.
The Glades Central coaches can't help
but wo if someone on the Blue Devil
coaching staff may have been involved,
seeing how intertwined the schools are,
and how they're both vying for a playoff spot.
- What I'm thinking is, it's a lot of bad blood
hurting me, it's hurting me hard.
But that's the way it is out here.
- [Narrator] Thankfully, the players
seem to be taken to heart the coach's message
of keeping their heads held high.
- [Player] Even though that hurt, Will,
you can do nothing about it, Will.
We gotta bounce back, Will.
We gotta beat Pahokee.
(uplifting hip hop music)
- [Narrator] The biting irony of the situation
is that across the board, the Raiders student athletes
are having a banner year in the classroom.
- That really took the wind out of our sails,
or we have had a lot of kids,
they're tackling academics extremely hard.
- [Narrator] On top of that, Glades Central
was proactive in handling questions
around another player's eligibility,
that of their best athlete,
and their team's top college prospect,
Ja'Vontae Tank Williams.
- You don't want none of that, oh yeah.
- He's something like really special to watch.
He's more like a wide receiver tight end hybrid,
very hard to bring down,
and he's not gonna get denied.
He can catch balls over the middle,
he could catch deep routes,
he can just do what, he can do it all.
And you don't wanna take your eyes off of him.
- Yeah, I know how good you are.
Yeah, somebody's gonna get a steal.
They don't even know it yet there.
They don't even know it yet, but.
- [Ja'Vontae] Yeah, no problem.
- I wish I was out there in the pads.
- [Coach JD] I know man.
- Especially for Muck Bowl,
we hatch that, it will be a new deal.
Oh, we probably would've won in the field, man.
- Would have.
- [Coach JD] Yeah, but who gonna guard you?
- Tank is one of those athletes who defy the odds.
His story is amazing.
- Reason I'm not playing now like I aged out,
I turned like 19.
Only gave me like three games.
I was blessed to get those three games.
- [Narrator] The reason Tank aged out
is because early on in school,
he fell behind other kids his age.
Not because he lacked the smarts.
Instead, because he spent much of his childhood
without a roof over his head.
- Another athlete gave me a hint that he was homeless.
- He always has been a person who needed help
with like family situations.
- Here and there, like I was moving around,
place to place.
I stayed on auntie's, cousin's,
like stuff like that.
Not your mom, I was not your family.
Growing up kinda rough, especially down here.
Usually gonna play ball
or you're gonna be on the streets.
- He has slept in the park in the past.
At that point that I just pretty much
took him up under my wing.
Ever since then, we look after him,
and we made sure he has everything he needs,
and he's one tremendous hell of an athlete.
- Oh man, enough of you already, homeboy,
but tighten up on that ball, man.
- That's good, being able to practice with the team
is a blessing 'cause it keep me in shape.
- [Coach JD] There you go.
- I just come out here every day, motivate.
- KD Fletcher and her team
at the Student Aces Center,
also helped keep Tank motivated academically.
- What's up, good?
- Good, ma'am.
- What took you so long?
- I had forgotten, I was running when you called me.
- You always forget.
- He said, "I really wanna do this,"
and I said, "Do what?"
He said, "I really wanna go to college.
"I really wanna play football."
Hey, that would not work.
Can you get on a laptop?
- I've already decided to take football
to another level, to show people like
what I'm made of, what I can do,
and where I come from.
Thought about it, taking life serious.
My grades, I thought of bringing them up.
And it all paid off.
- And he's racking up.
He's racking up on offers,
and we're making sure that his academics
are matching his athletics,
and now, he is eligible to leave in December,
and attend a school of hisice.
- [Narrator] Which will it be?
Oregon, Indiana, Syracuse, they all want Tank.
- That's a big blessing.
I gotta just thank God every day for it.
Like He took me from one spot
and put me in another.
(peaceful melancholy music)
(clicking)
(seagulls squawking)
- [Narrator] While the future is shaping up
nicely for Tank, another top prospect
from the Muck just made an unexpected detour
in his road to college.
- The recruitment process,
it is a very stressful process.
It does weigh heavily on my heart and on my mind.
- [Narrator] Pahokee star lineman, Scooter Kabir,
has decided to decommit from
the University of Central Florida
after his recruiter stopped responding
to Scooter's texts and emails about his ACT scores.
- So I decommit from Central Florida
because I felt l the love wasn't there,
the same as it was early on.
The ACT, first time I took it,
he texted me, "You need to retake the test."
So then, I had to retake it
because the scores weren't high enough.
So I had to, I made it 21.
So I know in any other Division I college,
that those are scores that can get me into college.
So I sent it to him, okay, I'm good.
About a month later, still nothing,
so I'm like, okay.
So it probably was I didn't commit too early,
I'm handling it pretty good.
A lot of things I just leave it in God's hands,
so like I feel like whatever happens, just happens.
I just try to focus on the positive.
- [Narrator] Because of his improved ACT scores
and his performance on the field,
Scooter has more scholarship offers than ever before.
- He has a couple of great offers on the table still
that he has to make a decision about.
- FAU, Toledo, USL, Colorado State.
There's not a lem with my grade.
I've never been ineligible to go
or to play Division I football.
It's just about me finding the perfect home
that I can spend the next probably three or four years at.
- Oh, whatever it is, I think Scooter's
gonna be an awesome, awesome ball player
on the next level.
He's determined, and he's dedicated to the game.
- [Narrator] So dedicated that scooter
continues to play with a broken finger.
- As you can see, this pinky is like
really working, I really can work it,
as way better than I could when I first broke it, so.
The pinky is fine.
- [Narrator] While Pahokee takes the week off,
Glades Central heads into their matchup
against Miami Pace High School with the fallout
of their ineligible player still lingers.
- Really was mentally draining for those guys
to even to have that thought
of not making the playoff.
To them, that that thought alone
was a devastating blow for their young minds.
- [Coach Shaine] Season has not been
going the way we planned.
We had some close losses.
(crowd cheering)
- [Host] Game over!
- We've had some close wins.
(crowd cheering)
But this week, we have mammoth plays,
which is a must win to us.
So just to get the kids to focus on finishing.
We haven't found the formula
at the end of the game
in order for us to finish
the way we're supposed to finish.
So we spent a lot of times on details,
offensively and defensively.
Hopefully, we did a good job.
The key is understand.
Coaches know what they're supposed to do,
and we can move forward.
(whistle blaring)
- Let's first, play football.
That's all we wanna do,
just play football, we wanna win.
Collin.
- [Player] Ready to tank.
- We're here to teach them to be men,
teach them to grow up, and get over stuff like this.
- That they do what they're supposed to do.
Just imagine going through what we're going through,
and we stick it to the stage finals, and win it.
- Yeah, yeah.
- [Coach Tony] We can do tha w.
They come together, we will do that.
- [Narrator] To win, Glades Central needs
its star wideout, Jim Davis, to shine.
But Davis can't do it all.
So quarterback Marion Moreland,
and fellow receiver Desna Washington
need to rack up yards and touchdowns.
And with so many close calls this season,
the place kicking pair of holder Jacob Camacho,
and kicker number 40, Jose Garcia,
needs to be in lockstep.
- [Coach] Break, break, break.
- [Narrator] As the Raiders warm up,
the players feel the pressure
from both the coaches and fans.
- Don't let him.
- Playing football here has a history behind it.
So you know it's like kinda we have
to like live up to it, we have standards
and stuff that we gotta play to.
- [Narrator] This is a must win game
for Miami Pace and Glades Central.
Given the stakes, the officials warned the coaches
that they will be calling a tight game.
- Any places I can.
If I got a problem with one of your players,
if they throw a punch, I can't save them.
Any other thing, I'll send it to the satellite.
if I tell them to go see you,
they're coming over for a reason.
- Good evening, ladies and gentlemen,
and welcome to Jones Field at Monsignor Pace High School
for tonight's matchup between visiting team,
the Glades Central Raiders
and your very own Monsignor Pace Spartans!
- [Coach] You go about 13 to 20,
go about 20 yards deep.
- Yes, sir.
- Y'all side by side,
you lead the charge, all right?
- Gotcha.
- [Host] Raiders set to receive
to start our game this evening.
- [Narrator] As the Raiders offense takes the field,
they're just taking the action
of Pahokee Coach DJ Boldin,
offensive and defensive coordinators
Damien Berry and Emmanuel Hendricks,
and other members of the Blue Devils staff.
They are there to scout their rivals
in the upcoming Muck Bowl,
but they're also there to cheer
the Raiders on to victory.
- Saturday night, got nothing,
let's do watch football.
You know everybody on the staff.
You know the kids.
So we're here to support the guys.
So when it comes down to football,
we can support Glades Central.
The Muck, mostly it was everybody.
Glades Central's the Muck, Pahokee's the Muck.
So it's kinda always been us that gets everybody.
- They're competing talent.
Both of them is fighting for playoffs.
Their playoff lives, man, so.
And that we expect it to be a dogfight.
- [Narrator] The field isn't the only place
where the intensity of the Pahokee-Glades Central
rivalries are on display.
Still reeling from the ineligibility ruling,
some Glades Central fans decided
to take their frustration out on Coach Boldin,
and his staff.
(Scooby speaking faintly)
- Scooby was funny to me.
I can't take Scooby serious.
- [Narrator] While Boldin and his staff
downplayed the tension in the stands,
the Raiders get off to a rocky start
as number one, Jim Davis,
drops what could have been a touchdown pass.
(whistle blaring)
- [Player] Beat yourself up.
- Don't beat yourself up. - Don't worry about it.
- It's okay, baby.
They've got so much talent out there,
so much talent.
Let's go defense.
- [Narrator] On their first drive,
Miami Pace moves the ball deep into Raider territory.
- Latino was the key filling.
He had the end right up the middle.
- [Player] My man, here.
- [Narrator] With the ball on the three-yard line,
the Spartans appear poised to score.
But the spine of the Raider defense stiffens,
and forces a goal line fumble.
- That's a turnover for the Spartans.
- [Narrator] This puts Glades Central back on offense,
albeit with their backs up
against their own goal line.
- You wanna go Tony, coach?
- Raiders got the ball right on the goal line.
- [Narrator] Glades Central runs it up the middle
in search of a little breathing room.
But the Miami Pace defensive line out muscles them.
- And the Spartan defense tightens up.
And that's a safety for the Spartans.
- [Narrator] This puts Glades Central
down to two to nothing,
and gives the ball to Miami Pace
in excellent field position.
- [Coach] Go!
(whistle blaring)
- Boogie, on the south, Boogie.
- [Narrator] But as the battle in the trenches continues,
the Glades Central D begins to gain the upper hand.
- It's really good football, yeah, it's been.
- Raiders will take the field on offense.
- You hear I say, check, check, check.
There are going to be two, 92.
- All right.
- You hear I say, check, check, check.
There are going to be two, 92, let's go.
- Raiders start deep in their own end.
- Check, check, check, rolls Ross,
roll, roll, roll. - On the next play,
quarterback Marion Moreland
struggles to control a low snap
and is nearly dropped for a second safety
before launching it down the far sideline
to number nine, Desna Washington.
- And the wide receiver, Washington,
makes the catch with the defender on him.
And that's a big game for the Raiders.
Gets them out of the shadow
in their own end zone.
- Let's go, Tony, start away.
- [Narrator] The Raiders's running game also heats up.
Thanks to number eight, Desmond Washington.
- Guys, guys, guys, let's go.
- [Narrator] Desna's little brother.
Then, the Raider offense digs a hole for itself
when a lineman is hit with a 15-yard
un-sportsman like penalty.
- I call it straight game.
I don't care who win this game, okay, I don't.
But Abe, when you talk back to me,
the next time you do it,
I'm gonna send you over here,
and you're gonna be done for the game.
- [Abe] Roger that.
- [Narrator] Miami Pace doesn't do
themselves any favors either,
when on the next play, Glades Central receiver,
Jim Davis, is taken down with an unnecessary
and penalty-worthy blindside block.
- Multi flag comes in at the end of the play.
What was that?
- [Crew] Blindside block.
- Oh, and the call is a blindside block
against the Spartans.
- Got a slight hit,
it's gotten the wind knocked out of him.
So he took a little break for a minute.
- [Narrator] But the un-sportsman like conduct
isn't restricted to the field as Scooby Jones
continues to give the Pahokee coaching staff,
a piece of his mind.
(Scooby speaking faintly)
- Keep on.
- He got down some of the coaches staff
here from Pahokee, and he knows
it's a rivalry, how it is.
- Keep right on.
You're putting on sort of clown, man.
- That's a very terse warning.
- You're putting on for a clown.
- So one word led to another,
and then, it became an argument.
(Scooby speaks faintly)
- [Maurice] Get outta here, man.
- Ain't start talking to you,
you fat son of a bitch.
- Miami PD picked him at the game.
They should've just let him go
to the other side and let all watch the games.
- That's your houseman,
that's your house's number one fan.
- [Narrator] With tensions running high,
Coach Hester urges his team to keep their composure
and put some points on the board.
- I just gotta make sure the kids
are not too emotionally high.
- [Narrator] Early in the second quarter,
the Raiders attempt a field goal.
- We gotta go on two.
We gotta go on two over here.
- [Coach] Don't forget about it now.
Nobody jump on two.
- We gotta get a good snap, we got a good hold,
we gotta get a good kick.
- They had a good kicker.
- They got a kicker.
- You gotta be able to feel all the electricity
and all that the energy that goes on
in certain situations.
Being able to stand up in that crucial moment.
(thudding)
- Oh, that's a good kick.
- [Host] And that kick is up.
- Holy smokes.
- And good from 39 yards.
- That was pretty impressive.
- He's real fast.
- They add 30 more, 20 more yards at least.
- That gives the Raiders a three-two lead
over the Spartans.
- [Narrator] Glades Central goes into halftime barely ahead.
But it's enough for Coach Hester to work with,
as he rallies his troops.
- That's Spinners off his game,
and it ain't go easy.
A'right, there's gonna be a fight, right,
but we're in this fight.
We're in this fight,
and we ain't backing down from this fight.
And there you go.
- This is gonna happen, I got faith.
- [Narrator] Just before the second half kickoff,
Coach Hester approaches Coach Boldin.
Though the ineligibility situation
has clouded the run-up to next week's Muck Bowl,
Coach Hester just wants to give Coach Boldin
props for Pahokee's quality win last week.
- Hey coach.
- How you doing?
- Right, there's your only win.
- Thank you, man.
- A'right.
- [Coach] We gotta move.
- [Crew] Hey, chief.
- All right, coach, we'll talk.
- [Narrator] At the start of the second half,
Miami Pace lays another questionable
bone-crushing hit on number nine,
Glades Central receiver, Desna Washington.
- [Host] Ain't complete in the back but that's gone.
Washington do not reel it in.
- [Narrator] The inability to find the end zone
puts the pressure on the Raiders offense and defense.
- We're trying to get sideways,
and then, get it, and get in the yards.
- I saw the bin!
- [Narrator] The Raiders deliver another
strong defensive stand led by number 20,
Jermaine Mays's touchdown saving tackle.
Back on offense, Glades Central finally hits pay dirt,
courtesy of a bruising 30-yard touchdown run
from Desna Washington.
- [Host] That's a touchdown for the Raiders.
- [Narrator] But it's enough.
Miami Pace goes on to score three more touchdowns
putting the game well out of reach.
- [Host] The Spartans bring home a victory,
23-nine over the Raiders of Glades Central.
- Right now, you gotta got few mores doubt.
The most doubt we've been guys, a'right.
Most doubt we've been guys,
that were that's when bad things happen.
Supposed to hurt.
It's supposed to hurt.
- [Captain] We got on three now, we got on three.
One, two, three.
- We all rock. - Raiders.
- Hey, Ziggy.
- [Narrator] It's an uncharacteristically
ugly loss for Glades Central
but the Raiders can now put that all behind them.
Because looming on the horizon
are the Pahokee Blue Devils
and the game every one is waiting for.
- The Muck Bowl is what it is.
This game and not riding on it.
It's for us bragging rights.
And it is all about the fight, the pride,
that's within you.
(birds chirping)
- [Narrator] It's Monday afternoon
inside Anquan Boldin Stadium,
and Coach DJ Boldin is with
Defensive Coordinator Emmanuel Hendricks
preparing a game plan for the upcoming
showdown against Glades Central.
There's an ominous vibe in the air
due to the fact that Glades Central
had to forfeit several victories
because of the ineligibility situation,
and because it's officially Muck Bowl week.
And the rivalry between the Raiders
and the Blue Devils is now building to a fever pitch.
Coach Emmanuel Hendricks, who's also a science teacher
at Glades Central believes he knows the truth
about how the player was deemed ineligible.
Glades Central's administrators
were simply following the rules.
- The kid grade went from over 2.0 toward 1.9.
It came out that the grade had been changed.
Personnel find out about it,
she rolled it up to the state.
They contacted people.
- [Narrator] In order to abide by
the State Athletic Association guidelines,
the Glades Central administration self-reported the issue.
This revelation verifies that
the Pahokee coaching staff was not involved.
With the air cleared, Coach Boldin and Coach Hendricks
turn their attention to the daunting task at hand,
leading Pahokee to victory in the Muck Bowl.
- And guess what?
We're gonna do it!
It's going down!
That we're gonna win this game, period.
We're going to put it on for the city,
we're gonna light it up.
- [Narrator] At Glades Central, the crushing loss
to Pace has a surprising silver lining.
Over the weekend, one of the school's
forfeited victories was reinstated
since the player in question never entered the game,
which means the Raiders's playoff hopes
have been resurrected.
For Coach Hester, it's just another day at the office
in an increasingly roller coaster season.
- Get back at it Monday,
just to get back on our regular schedule.
So we have an extra day for preparation
because the game is on Saturday as well.
- [Captain] Hut, ready?
(Raiders clapping)
- [Raiders] G-C-R-A-I-D-E-R-S, Raiders, Raiders.
- Set!
- [Narrator] Absent from the practice field
is Tank Williams, who can no longer play
because he turned 19, three games into the season.
- [Raiders] Raiders.
- [Narrator] But that's not why Tank is in that practice.
It's because he's graduated early
from Glades Central and has accepted
a scholarship to Syracuse University.
- So this is my baby right here.
This is Ja'Vontae Tank Williams.
And just last week, I flew him up there
and dropped him off.
Tank has come a long way.
Tank has come a very long way
from not even knowing how far he can go
in this process to ending up with probably
like over 15 Division I offers.
That journey has been extremely, extremely worth it.
Mission accomplished, probably one of the toughest ones
that I've had in my entire career,
but the most deserving.
I'm proud of him,
like I had to shed a few tears on this one.
- [Narrator] But like so many local heroes before,
Tank will be back for the next week's Muck Bowl,
a game many experts consider to be the greatest rivalry
in all of high school football.
And that fuels the dreams
of the next generation of Muck City's grid iron greats.
- The Muck Bowl is something that you,
you look forward to as a kid,
because that's something that has been ingrained
in us as a youth, so it's definitely a game
that we all look forward to.
- [Narrator] Next time on 4th and Forever,
everyone expects Muck Bowl week to bring out the best.
- It's very popular here,
and also representatives from the NFL
and all will come out and watch.
- [Narrator] But no one is fully prepared for the drama.
- Like two season of going to work.
- [Narrator] And surprises.
- And all the crowd (cheers) as he brought it.
- [Narrator] Of this year's showdown.
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