01x03 - Like Son, Like Father

[bunniefuu]

[Aiden] They have a ball out there?

[Man Man] Uh…

Dad?

[player] Dad, help!

[father] You gon' catch work today?

-[player] Yeah.
-Gloves on.

[player] Dad!

[boy] Look, there you go. Full throttle.

[Gawuala] Vick is not here with us
in the game,

but he's here with us
through Coach Gawuala.

'Cause we are a family.

[players] Two! Three! Four!
Five! Six! Seven!

[Gawuala] We'll be playing
for Coach Vick today.

We're gonna stand tall for Brother D-Lo
'cause D-Lo stood with this team

and made sure he put this team
on his back, and he carried us far a ways.

So today, we'll put D-Lo on our back,
and we'll carry him far a ways.

-Is that understood?
-[all] Yes, coach!

[D-Lo] Hut!

[player 1] Coach Gawuala!

[man 1] Guys are gonna
have to be a lot tougher.

Listen, you gotta run a hell of a lot--

[man 2] Not in that line,
y'all not pushing. Y'all not blocking.

[opponent coach] Find number one!

[Gawuala] Let's go, let's go, let's go.

[Man Man] Yo, D-Lo.

[Gawuala] D-Lo!
D-Lo, look at Gawuala, here! Here.

Give me 100, I'll give you five.

Let's work.

[whistle blows]

[D-Lo] Team, down.

[man] Come on, defense, show me something!
Fire up, Jonathan--

[D-Lo] Ready…

Go!

[man 1] Let's go!

[all grunting]

He's out. Go, D-Lo! There you go.

-He's out.
-[man 2] Oh, they got him.

[Sharese] Get him!

-[cheering]
-Get him! There you go!

[Ms. Rose] Let's go!
Push 'em back some more!

[Moe] No, stop turning back!

-[whistle blows]
-[Moe] You had it!

[boy] Come on, bro!

[panting]

I had no damn block!

[D-Lo] Ready…

Go!

[Moe] Block, Marcus!

Go, D-Lo. Keep coming, keep coming!
Keep going!

-[Moe] Block, block!
-[Gawuala] Block! Block, block!

-Block, block!
-[crowd cheering]

[opposing coach] Get him!

[man] What is he doing?

-[Gawuala] Hold the ball!
-[whistle blows]

-[referee] Hold on.
-[opposing coach] Way to play!

[D-Lo groans in disgust]

[opposing coach] Come on, Shiloh.
Way to hustle, y'all. Way to play, man.

Way to play football, y'all.

[breathing heavily]

[D-Lo] Stop letting him come outside!

[player] You don't listen!
You don't pay attention in practice!

[D-Lo] No, he cannot!

[player] Damn.

Marcus, run!

-Run!
-[Gawuala] D-Lo, D-Lo!

-You have the full gap!
-[Gawuala] Saints, come to Gawuala.

-How y'all feel?
-[all] You know!

-How y'all feel?
-You know!

-Rule number one?
-Have fun!

-Rule number two?
-Have fun!

-Rule number three?
-Have fun!

Now is our time to have fun!

Communication is the key to success.
Let's communicate.

We're a team, we're a team! Go!

[Gawuala] D-Lo, get under!

Come on!

-[Moe] Let's go.
-[Gawuala] D-Lo! I got you!

[fans cheering]

[Gawuala] No!

[whistle blows repeatedly]

Damn, outside! Contain the outside!

Oh, my God, bro.

[sighs]

[Gawuala] Yo, D-Lo! Don't worry about it.

Next play on offense is back to you,
you got it?

I can't breathe.

[Gawuala] D-Lo, come to Gawuala!

It's me and you
against the world, you hear me?

Don't let adversity win today,
you hear me?

Pick your head up, baby boy!

Hut!

[Gawuala] Fire up!

[boy] Let's go!

[fans cheering]

-[Moe] Go, D-Lo! He's out.
-[Gawuala] There we go, a touchdown.

[whistle blows]

[Gawuala] No!

Flag, flag, flag!

[Isaiah] What did I tell you?
It's coming back.

-[Gawuala] All right! Go back!
-[Isaiah] It's coming your way.

[Gawuala] Line up! Let's get it back now.

[whistle blowing]

[D-Lo] Go!

[Gawuala] Rever… Ball! Ball!

[whistle blowing]

-[D-Lo grunts]
-[whistle blows]

[Gawuala] That's the game. Line it up!
Take the ball. Line it up.

Take your ball, blue. That's your ball.

Line it up.

Good job. Good job, man. Good job.

[Gawuala] Today was not a loss,
understood?

-[all] Yes, coach!
-It was not a loss.

It was a lesson learned.

We will learn from this.
We will bounce back.

-Is that understood?
-Yes, coach!

[Isaiah] You all right?
It's all right, man.

[train passing]

[D-Lo] Well, we basically lost
because we wasn't communicating.

[Ms. Rose] Why y'all wasn't communicating?

[D-Lo] They just kept breaking us down.

[Ms. Rose] Just remember,
you can't win it by yourself.

-[D-Lo] Gotta win it as a team.
-Exactly.

[D-Lo] I really wanted to win
'cause Pops is having a hard time.

Come on, Ma, it's cold.

[Ms. Rose] Sugar pie!

[woman] She ain't coming back
'cause you don't let her go.

The day my dad got arrested,
I mean, it didn't feel right.

It felt like everything was gone.

Even at the game, I just felt like…

I was really missing my dad
screaming a lot.

It felt empty.

[somber music playing]

Remember last year on the bus?

[boys speaking indistinctly]

Nothing. What?

Who?

That hurt! That hurt.

Oh, God!

[woman] Any parents that know now
if they're riding the bus?

[man] Yes.

-[woman] One, two, three?
-Three, four.

[Moe] Three.

Yo! Turn that phone off.
Our meeting's about to start.

[man] Hey, too loud.

-What's up, Tito?
-Um…

How much games are we going
to have in Florida?

We should have two playoff games
and a championship.

We need you guys to make sure
y'all win all your games.

It's a big stage.

There's about eight games going on
at one time, all ages.

It's thousands of people out there.

So, I need everybody to come to practice

with your game face on
and ready to put in work, every practice.

Parents are making a lot of sacrifices.
Don't mess it up.

[moody music playing]

[trainer 1] Nice!

There you go, now bring it up. Nice.

[trainer 2] You said he caught
a muscle spasm

three weeks ago during a game?

[Demel] Yeah. Started cramping up.

[trainer 2] In the back area?

[Demel] Everywhere.

All right, put it down.

-It's tight back here, right?
-Yeah.

[Kenan] My dad, he was just like,
"We gotta take you to get an MRI."

"We gotta get you back on this field
as soon as possible."

-[trainer 2] He has practice after this?
-[Demel] Yeah.

The MRI came back.
Everything was fine. We were good to go.

But those things are very nervous.

You never know
how they're gonna come back.

So now, we're taking better precautions

and making sure
those injuries don't happen in the future.

-[breathing heavily]
-[trainer 2] Relax.

[Demel] That's good.

-Did that feel better?
-Yeah.

-That felt a lot better, right?
-Yeah.

[trainer 1] Good, I'm happy.
Let's stretch real quick.

-[Kenan] Okay.
-Then you're good to go.

[Kenan breathes heavily]

[coach] See, it's education
first here, not football.

There are one million
high school football players

in the United States.


That's it.

Only 2,000 in the NFL,
making all those millions

to play a kid's game.

Both of you wanna go to the NFL?

-Yes, coach.
-No, coach.

-You don't wanna go to the NFL?
-No, coach.

Okay, interesting.

You're one of the few to say that,
but that's cool, Kenan.

"I'm gonna be a big-time engineer
or a scientist. Robotics."

Oh, I'm a detective. I know what goes on.
I do my investigation.

-[laughing]
-Myself, I don't care about football.

Because in football,
you are one hit from never playing again.

You can tear your knee.

You can tear your Achilles.

Concussion!

Where you never play again.

You're not guaranteed nothing,
but you are guaranteed this.

-What does that say, gentlemen?
-[both] Education.

-Say it again.
-Education.

-Say it louder!
-Education.

You are guaranteed your ed-u-ca-tion!

Use football, don't let it use you.

[Kenan] I have this choice
to make about high school,

and it's between
where my brother has played football

and Christ the King,
that has a good robotics program.

[recording] This is
a Brooklyn-bound "M" train.

[Kenan] It's a tough decision.

The next stop is Fresh Pond Road.

You said you don't wanna be in the NFL.
That was the last thing you got me with.

[Dede] Daddy was shocked.

So now, what do you
wanna do instead of the NFL?

-Engineer.
-Engineer?

-Yeah.
-What, in robotics?

-Yeah.
-Okay.

[laughing]

[gentle music plays]

[Aiden] The letter game.

[Dave] Let's play the letter game.
All right, let's go.

-"A," Aiden. You can start it off.
-Oh, can I start it off?

[Aiden] "Gra…" Is it "Grained"?

-[Dave] Grand Avenue.
-Yeah, Grand Avenue. "B"!

[Dave] You got "B." BP! "C."

-Gotta find a "C," Aiden.
-A "C." Sun…

[Dave] "C," not a "S."

Yeah, I said, "Sun-O-C-O."
Whatever that says.

-"Sunoco."
-Sunoco.

Good job. You was quick with that one.

[laughs]

[Aiden] Some kids don't like
their fathers around,

but it just make me feel fun
to have my father around to support me.

-[Dave] Got "F."
-"F," "F"... Feet!

-[Dave] Did you say "feet"?
-Yeah. 107…

[Dave] Okay, I got you.

He do a lot of things for my team
that not a lot of dads do.

[objects rattling]

You wanna see the lost and found?

[man] We'll find that stuff
all over the place.

[Dave] This is my lost and found.

All for kids.

[cheerleaders] Let's go, Brooklyn,
let's go! Let's go, Brooklyn, let's go!

To me, fatherhood is being
a part of their lives.

[woman cheering]

[Dave] Anybody could make a meal,
buy 'em clothes…

Let's go!

…put their name on a birth certificate.
That don't make you a father.

Yo. Yo, good luck. k*ll 'em.

I got you.

[announcer] Jordan on the 12,
running it in for a touchdown.

[Aiden] Thank you.

-Some good ol' veggies. Yes! Thank you.
-[Grandma] Good job, Dad.

-[Aiden] Thank you, Grandma.
-Now, Dad, it's…

[Dave] Yeah, it's the first time

this organization
has taken a bus together.

-I'm stuck taking the bus now.
-[Dave Jr.] 'Cause I'm taking it.

-You're not stuck!
-[Dave] No.

It's not because you're taking it.
Yeah, I am stuck.

-No, you're not. You chose.
-[Dave] No, I didn't chose.

-Yes, you did.
-No, I didn't.

[Dave Jr.] Mr. VP. Come on, man.

This one begged me to take it

because I took it with him.

Oh, yeah.

So no, I did not choose.

It's a good thing. Team bonding.

[Dave Jr.] Good block.

[Dave] That's how we love.

♪ Mi amor ♪

[chuckling]

[thunder rumbles]

[moody music plays]

[basketball bouncing]

[Vick] I'm tired, man. I'm tired.

[Vick] I had a ticket
that hadn't been paid,

and I totally, completely forgot about it.

I was driving the car,

and we were on our way to the game.

I knew the bus
was getting ready to pull off

and I didn't yield to the light.

And that was the reason
why the police officer pulled me over.

He was very understanding,
you know what I mean?

But, due to the circumstances,
he had to call my license number in,

and it popped up.

-[cashier] $5.35.
-[Vick] All right.

[Vick] My son was
a little nervous about it,

and I really should
have been there for him,

but the lesson that was learned…

Take care of what you gotta take care of.

Come on, we gotta go have this talk, man.

[D-Lo] Thank you.

How old am I now?

Um, 50.

I'm 50 years old.

-Can I tell you something?
-Mm-hmm.

My pops, you know,
he never seen me play football.

He was too busy. And I said to myself,

"I would never put my child
in that situation,

unless something else happens
beyond my control."

I felt like I let my son down.

You know what I mean?

I should've been more disciplined.

I made a lot of mistakes, man,

and the mistakes I made was
because I couldn't stay disciplined.

I refuse not
to have my children disciplined.

Remember, I told you,
"Anything you do in life,

somebody's gonna
always remember the bad part."

[D-Lo] Yes.

People are gonna look at you,
they waiting for you to mess up.

You're supposed to be better than me.

As long as you do right,

there ain't nothing you can't have, D-Lo.

You gotta live your life.

I'm Victor Davis,

and who are you?

[softly] Dalontai Davis.

I can't hear you whispering.

Dalontai Davis.

Say it like you mean it, man.
That name means a lot to me, man.

-[emphatically] Dalontai Davis.
-All right.

When you say that, say it with authority,
like a damn king. Like you the coach.

Be proud of who you are.

Three times.

Easy.

Come on, we can go back
on the court for a little while.

-I love you, boy.
-[D-Lo] I love you too, Dad.

[Ty] A lot of us are men
who came from troubled pasts.

We wasn't always model Saints,

in every sense of the word, you know.

So, giving back to kids younger than us,

making sure that they don't make the same
mistakes we made, is a big thing for us.

I want my kids to be better than me.

If I got an apartment,
I need you to get a house.

If I'm making $80,000 a year,
I need you to make $160,000.

Be the best person at math in your class.

Be the best person
at reading in your class.

Be the best at everything you do.

[player] Marcus and Tay-Tay split!

[Gawuala] No, Tito was
definitely out here. Marcus! No.

[player] All the way down there.

-What's up?
-I'm all right.

-How you doing?
-Good.

-[Tito Jr.] Let's bring it in. One knee.
-[D-Lo] Come on, let's go! Run the ball.

Listen up, fellas.
I was not able to make the game last week.

But I knew that you guys
was playing your hardest for me.

So I wanna thank you guys
for fighting, aight?



[all] We love you, Coach Vick!

-We love you, Coach Vick!
-We love you, Coach Vick!

-I love you, Coach Vick.
-Love you, Coach Vick.

[Vick] I love y'all too.

[Gawuala] Now, we got
work to do for this game.

-All right?
-[player] Yes, coach!

[Ty] We have no time for games,

we got a month to get this right
to win this chip.

[Gawuala] Today is the day,
A.D.D. stands real important.

[boy] Give 'em work to do.

[Gawuala] Today is "Any Darn Day,"
is that understood?

-[all] Yes, coach!
-[Ty] Time to go to work.

[Vick] We are the team that deserves
to be in Florida for that championship.

[inspiring music playing]

[Dave] Good. Good! Good!

[Gawuala] Let's go!

[Tito III] Mm-mmm.

Take your mouthpiece out.

[D-Lo] Team down!

[D-Lo] Misdirection! Ready, go!

[Moe] There it is.
That's what I'm taking about.

[Gawuala] Good job, keep it up.

[Isaiah] I need y'all ready.
This is big time.

This is our last game
before we go to Florida.

You have to give it your all.

[referee] Shake hands, gentlemen.

-Hello. Good game.
-Hello. Good game.

[Gawuala] Communication is the key
to success.

-Today is our success, you understand?
-[player] Yes.

The sun is up and shining bright
on our backs. Let's shine like diamonds.

Work, babies. I love you.

They got a D-Lo Special coming.

-To make sure you're good, go like that.
-All right.

-[whistle blows]
-[clapping]

Communication is the key to success!

[smooth blues playing]

[quarterback yells]

[whistle blows]

-Yeah!
-Let's go!

Go, D-Lo! Go, D-Lo! Go, D-Lo!

[Demel] Touchdown. Money.

-[cheering]
-[D-Lo] Let's go, man! Let's go!

[Miguel] That's right, boy!

Hut!

-[D-Lo] Come on, Tito.
-[player] Yeah!

[players yelling and grunting]

-[whistle blows]
-[Miguel] Let's go, Tito!

[Moe] Everybody up. All right, here we go.
Let's grab the ball.

-[Miguel] Tito!
-[Tito III yells and cries]

Tito.

Who can tell you who's the boss?

Yourself. Ok?

[sighs heavily]

[player] You get the corner
'cause the corner's right there.

So, that guy right there.

-[man] Got it!
-[Gawuala] Come on!

Run! Run! Run!

[all] Run, run, run!

[fans cheering]

Easy!

You good?

[Aiden] We're rolling, yo!

[Gawuala] It's a beautiful year
this year, baby.

[blues music continues]

[Gawuala] Go! Go, D-Lo! Go, go!

[all cheering]

-[whistle blows]
-[referee] That's the game. Line it up.

[Miguel] Yo, D-Lo!

D-Lo, come on.

[breathing heavily]

[Moe] Is he okay?

You did a great job. Good game.
Gimme me some water. Water, water!

[Gawuala] Gary, I need a tunnel!
I need a tunnel!

Right here?

Come on, slide it down. Pack it in.

[Isaiah] We gon' fill it in.
We'll fill it in.

[man] Let's go, y'all.

[Gawuala] Y'all definitely deserve
y'all win today!

[all cheering]

[all cheering]

[Gawuala] We A.D.D.! We A.D.D.!

-9U, how y'all feel?
-You know!

-How y'all feel?
-You know!

-Where we from?
-[all] Brooklyn!

I thank every last one of you guys
for bringing your kid out to this program

and believing in Coach Gawuala
and his madness,

with his coaching staff.

-[man] A.D.D.!
-Thank you!

We are officially A.D.D.
'til the day that we die!

Anything and everything is possible.
Any Darn Day.

[woman] A.D.D.'s the best!

At the beginning, I was a little bit
reluctant on that. "We A.D.D.?"

I wasn't quite sure what that meant.

You know, just thinking of it
as a medical diagnosis.

But once he broke it down,

"Any Darn Day,"

he brought a negative
into something so positive.

I'm all for it.

We A.D.D. [laughs]

So, we gonna play.

Whether we lose, win, tie,
we gonna play, all day.

[Gawuala] Today, we stepped up big!

[families chattering indistinctly]

[players and coaches speaking
indistinctly]

[man] There's no Florida.
You win, you go home.

-[man 1] Yo! Bring it in!
-[man 2] Everybody out.

Y'all gonna curl up,
or y'all gonna go out swinging?

[player] Swingin'!

Today's about earning respect.

Don't put your head downs, rally up.

[player speaking indistinctly]

[player 1] Put on my cleats.
Let me put on my cleats!

[youth] I can get dressed.

[Demel] Y'all get dressed. Shoulder pads,
everything. Let's go.

Pads on.

[player] So if they move it,
like, hit 'em?

[players] Six. Seven. Eight.

I wanna see what your character's about.

It ain't always about the outcome
of the game.

It's how you play the game.

I'm proud of y'all
for being here right now

'cause if you look around,
we kind of short-numbered.

It tells me that y'all committed
to what y'all do.

Let's play together, let's have fun,

and let's go out there
and show 'em what we really about.

[Kenan] Show 'em we can do it.
Watch for me.

-45 Smash. On one. Ready?
-[all] Break!

[coach] Kenan! Go ahead, Kenan!

-[man] Go, Kenan!
-[Demel] Block! Yo!

[coach] Come on, Kenan!

-[whistle blows]
-[cheering]

[player] Come on.

Good stop! That's it.

[clapping]

[players grunting]

-[Moe] Ah, bad throw.
-[whistle blows]

[coaches shouting indistinctly]

-[grunting]
-[opponent] No! He's running!

-[opponents cheer]
-[Moe] Oh, my God, Kenan.

[cheering]

[Kenan] Y'all have to block!

Y'all see? Y'all see?

Y'all don't block, we lose!

[player] But who's… I said… We…

I'm done, bro.

-[man 1] Y'all not blocking. Block!
-[man 2] Focus!

[opponent coach] Oh, yeah!

[cheering]

-[coach] Run! Come on!
-[whistle blows]

[Demel] Thank you, Kenan.

-All right.
-[Demel] Pauly can get in there.

[opponent quarterback]
Keep up with me!

-[Moe] You got him!
-[coach 1] Go, Andre, grab him!

-[whistle blows]
-[coach 2] Oh, my goodness!

[coach] On the 50, let's go.

-[player] We suck, brah.
-Come on. Bro!

Yo, good game, bro.

Good game.

Good luck in high school, y'all.

Good game, my boy!

[opponent player] I know how to tackle.

Listen, I know how to play.
I know how to tackle.

[opponents laughing]

[coach] Hope y'all learned a little bit
about yourselves in this game.

It's been a pleasure coaching y'all
this season.

Hopefully, I'll see y'all
in the summertime,

and y'all are ready to get some work in.

[announcer] All right, it looks like all
the pits and all the teams are ready.

[man] You got it.

[announcer] All right,
referees, are we ready?

Referees, I need to see a thumbs up.

See what they have to do for each one.

See that blue thing sticking up?

-Uh-huh.
-You gotta go over it.

And after you go over,
the flag should go up.

Each one is 15 points.

-[man] Let's do Round One.
-Okay.

[announcer] All right. Team number 19,
you got a thumbs up?

All right, you got a thumbs up
from all the teams here.

Three, two, one, and go, teams!

Go, go, go!

It looks like we're trying
to get into the ring.

There's a flip over there.

[competitor] Oh!

The ref's getting very enthusiastic.

Hey, who's that craning over and under?

[referee] Got a minute-ten!

[announcer] Keep it going,
see where you can go, what you can do.

All the points to be earned.

[woman] That's good!

[announcer] Four seconds left.
Three, two, one!

There we go!

And that was our last round
of robot games.

[boy] Man, that sucks.

Remember it hit the wall and shook?

That was wild. We still did good though.

Yeah.

[teacher] Good run, good run.
It's just that one little mess-up.

[announcer] And coming in second place,
with a score of 280,

congratulations to Pit Nine! Yeah!

[cheering]

-[boy] We're in third place.
-[Dede] Oh, third place?

[announcer] …with 300 points,
congratulations, Pit 14!

[wild cheering]

If we have any eighth-graders,
will you please stand up?

[cheering]

Eighth-graders, this is
your last time here with us

at an FLL qualifier as a competitor.

[Demel] We've been a football family
for seven years.

We look at it more as an out,

and that's a necessity
for our kids right now.

If it wasn't for football,

we wouldn't be able to afford
college tuition every single year.

When picking a high school for Kenan,
that's really important.

[announcer] Thank you,
everyone, for coming out,

and have a wonderful day,
a wonderful rest of your evening!

[somber music playing]

[sirens wail]

[GPS voice] Turn left onto Lincoln Avenue,
then turn left.

[Gawuala] If I get this new job,
it would mean so much to my family.

All faith falls on this phone call.

[ringtone plays]

Hello?

Hello?

This is Edwin.

Okay.

Yes, yes. Yes, I did.

Thank you.
Bless your hearts, each one of you guys.

Thank you so much.

I will not fail y'all.

I promise I won't.

No, I won't. I won't. Believe I won't.

God sent me to this interview.

Yeah, he sent that word back
for you guys to take me.



Thank you so much.

All right, thank you.

Got it! Told you we gonna be good! Haa!

Sorry 'bout that.

Ah, man.

And she said to make sure
I take my kids to Florida

and come back with number one.

She said, "Do not change your plans."

"Better not change your plans."

"You deserve it. Go."

October 12th, I'm in!

[woman laughing over phone]

I'm in, boo, we got it!

-[woman on phone] Congratulations, boo.
-Ah. No doubt, no doubt.

-We're so happy to--
-Appreciate it. Huh?

Super excited. I'm happy for you.

Yeah, me too.

[laughing]

I'm so excited,
I don't even wanna eat no more.

I done lost my appetite.

What a great feeling.
I feel like I won the lotto right now.

sh*t!

[sad music playing]

[Dave] Pull, pull.

[D-Lo] Oh, perfect. Food!

[Aiden] I think RJ
said they didn't have no more.

[Shon] I just need
your undivided attention for five minutes.

-Can I get that?
-[all] Yes, Coach!

Okay.

Anybody know what's the importance
of us being here?

[player] It's raining outside.

I'll take you.

[Miguel] I think
the importance of being here

is so we can practice for Florida,

and we won't be embarrassed out there.

[Shon] All of this is to get y'all
prepared to go down to Florida.

Because once you get down there,
them teams are preparing hard.

I wouldn't be surprised

if they're not practicing
at least five days a week.

[Gawuala] Yeah. Yeah!

[Shon] You don't wanna get down to Florida

and look like the program
that wasn't supposed to be there.

It's not a rush, fellas.

[Shon] The only reason
why we're going down there is to what?

[players] Win.

[Shon] That's it. It's football.

He's the left, you the right,
unless you switch.

You know your left from your right, right?

What are you?

-I'm a left side defensive tackle.
-Good.

[Vick] Throw the ball.

[Moe] Talk up, I can't hear you.

-Corner.
-[Moe] What side?

The right side.

[Moe] This is the right side?

Oh, the left side.

[Moe] You sure?

-Left side.
-[Moe] Are you sure?

-Yeah!
-[Moe] Just checking, man.

[player] Force linebacker.

[Moe] What side?

Left.

I literally just guessed.

[Isaiah] Some teams,
they may be bigger than us.

Some of them may naturally be gifted
to be faster than us,

but there is no excuse
for another team to outwork us.

-Is that clear?
-[all] Yes, coach.

[clapping]

[Gawuala] Up top.

Good job, baby boy. Good job.

[Isaiah] Hey! Whoa. Just relax.

-That's your place.
-[Moe] Hold it. Set a timer.

[Isaiah] Have to push
his way across the line.

[players speaking indistinctly]

[Moe] Good!

[sweeping somber music plays]

[train rumbling]

[D-Lo] You can't just be playing in cleats

that you don't like
and that don't feel right

'cause you won't, like, have a good game.

So…

[Ms. Rose] Those are the only ones
you saw, Dalontai?

[D-Lo] You never know
what they might have in-store…

I know. That's why we gonna go to this one
because they have a better selection.

How you feel about staying in the house
without me and Daddy?

Kinda good.

-Kinda good?
-No, it's great. Great, yeah.

-Great? Oh!
-Yeah.

-Well, good.
-[Ms. Rose laughs] Why?

It's good because I get
to be around my friends more,

and I don't gotta worry about nobody
really being on my back.

Not too much playing around like
last time in the house, remember?

-[D-Lo] Oh, yeah.
-Mm-hmm.

And when we get down there,

we cannot play around how we normally do.

'Cause if we play around, we gonna lose.

Last year, y'all came in second place,

so y'all gotta bring it home this time.
It's only right.

What you think?

-Yeah.
-Mm-hmm.

See? I like those.

-You like that sweater?
-Yeah.

I got one of those.

You wearing a Nike sweater right now.

Those Jordans different.

Oh.

-[man] Thank you. God bless you.
-Thank you, my love.

[D-Lo] Mm-hmm.

[joyful music playing]

In Florida, it's probably gonna be, like,
right now, mathematically thinking…

[Dave] "Mathematically thinking"?

-Wow.
-[Aiden] I need my phone.

How hot is it in Florida?

It's 58 degrees, sunny.

[Dave] Told you.

Next week,
Monday's gonna be 75 degrees in Florida.

When we leave…

-It's gonna be 71 degrees.
-Yup.

God dang.

[gentle music playing]

[man] Morning, bro.

Three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine…

[man] Let's go. Brush your teeth.
Let me hear it.

Don't forget to wash your face, all right?

[woman] Pack! I'm gonna pack.

Yes.

Bring the little baby to me.

[Ms. Rose] Are you excited?

I'm very excited.

[Ms Rose] We need to go to the store.

-[Man Man] At least 80 degrees.
-[Aiden] Seventy degrees!

No, it's very hot. Boy,
it's gonna be like 85 degrees, no cap!

[Aiden] It's one degree!

No, it's not, bro.

It's gonna be like 85, boy.
Don't be stupid.

-Stop doing that!
-Boy--

[Man Man] I said stop. Come on, stop!

Yay! We here.

[Vick] What's going on, boy?

[woman] I was gonna zip up the baggage.

What's up?

-Nothing.
-They got you a new phone?

[woman] Leave your bags over here.

-[laughs]
-[Vick] Hey! What up, baby?

All right, let me see what's going on.

-[boy 1] Boy, D-Lo!
-It's cold.

-[boy 2] All right, bet.
-[boy 1] Ugly boy, D-Lo.

[D-Lo] Who wants to sit next to me?

[all] Me!

[Tito III] Me, D-Lo! I'm your best friend.

-[boy] No, I'm not sitting next to her.
-[all] D-Lo!

[Gawuala] Yeah, boy, boy.

Yeah, boy, boy.

I'm about to throw my **** on today too.

That's how they do it.

Easy! Look at you, ready.

Headphones and all.

Coach, are you coming to Florida?

Yeah, I'mma be there tomorrow.
I gotta go do some work training today

'cause I started a new job yesterday,
so I gotta do some training today.

[Tito III] What does that mean?
What kind of job is it?

-Huh?
-What kind of job is it?

What kind of job? I'mma be working
in a psychiatric facility center,

-in a hospital for the ill.
-In the hospital?

But the help in the training, and…

I'mma be cleaning
'cause I gotta be a cleaner.

I gotta know how to do it the right way.

They got rules
and regulations I gotta learn.

[boy] Are you coming?

Yeah, I'mma be out there
before y'all head to Florida.

I'll be out there
first thing in the morning.

[boy] Are you taking…
Are you taking a, uh, plane?

Yeah, I'm flying in the morning.

Saints, let me get three, I gotta go.

[Mykel] Are you leaving?

-Yeah, I gotta get to work.
-All right.

[Gawuala] I care for these kids.
I care a lot for them.

[voice breaking] I look
at every kid I coach…

like he's mine.

Whether the parents is out there or not,
I look at these kids like they're mine.

[boys chattering]

[Gawuala] Five years back, I lost my son.

Baby Josiah.

Um, I wanted to stop football.

And I didn't wanna come back

because my son wasn't there
to participate in any of it,

and I wasn't gonna be able
to come around.

You know, in my mind,
"All right, I'm having me a son."

"I'm bringing my son
to the football field with a stroller,

and, first day born,
I'mma put a football in his hand,

and hopefully, we can get far with that."
And, you know,

that wasn't what it was.

That wasn't the plan God had set for me.

And before every game, I…

Got her name tatted,

my grandmother's name tatted here,
my son tatted,

my mother's name tatted here, my son,

Winnie-the-Pooh in the middle of my chest.
I always cross my chest for them.

It's Grandma, my mother,
my son, we gonna keep this quiet.

Just gotta keep it quiet.
This is us against the world,

and I thank them.

My son is gonna live on…

forever.

Forever, because I'm married
to this coaching stuff.

I'm married to the Saints,

and as long as I'm alive and I'm coaching,

Baby Josiah will forever live

through every kid I coach.

Things is gonna work out
the way they should.

[Isaiah] Yo, everybody touch somebody.

Lord, we come to you today.
We're saying, "Thank you."

Thank you for waking us all up today.

Thank you for allowing us
to come on this bus

in fellowship, on this ride together.

We ask that you give
these children the victory,

they've worked so hard this year.

[player] All right, D!

[Dede] We ask that you be with them
in every game, God.

-[whistle blows]
-[player yelling]

[people cheering]

[Dede] We ask that you take them
all the way to the championship.

[Moe] Keep going, D-Lo.

Touchdown.

[Dede] Bring home the medals that they
fully deserve because they have worked.

We ask that you honor their sacrifice
on this game day.

All these things we ask
in your name, amen.

[all] Amen.

[cheering and applause]

[gentle music playing]