CHAPTER SUMMARY AND NOTES

EPILOGUE

Summary

The Carter Cowboys eventually win the State Championship and their players are heavily courted by various colleges and universities. They are promised everything from credit cards to cars. They are given girls when the visit the various campuses. They are taken to strip joints for entertainment. They are offered anything and everything. That’s why it’s ironic when Derric Evans and Gary Edwards commit their first armed robbery in May of 1989. They commit a total of seven robberies in the space of a month before they are arrested. Their only motive is that they did it for kicks. Public opinion once again breaks along racial lines, whites finding justification for their feelings about these blacks and blacks praying that some mercy would be given to these supremely talented players. Unfortunately, Derric is sentenced to twenty years in prison and Gary to sixteen. Marshall Gandy, the prosecutor on the case, wonders what real favor had been done to these kids by placing them on a golden pedestal. He insists that they all treated these boys like children while they were in high school so how can we expect them to act any other way.

Brian Chavez applies to Harvard and is accepted. When the football coach requests a game film to analyze his talent, Gaines sends the wrong film, one that is Brian’s worst game of the season. He defends himself by saying it was an accident. His father is angry, but Brian is deeply hurt, considering the sacrifices he had made to play for Permian. He goes out for football at Harvard anyway, but finds it hard to adjust to crowds that are so small. He can’t forget the glory of Permian, and he decides that his purpose at Harvard isn’t football. There are more important goals he wants to accomplish.

Jerrod McDougal tries to adjust to a life without Permian football. But it’s difficult. He toys with the idea of traveling to...........

Notes

This chapter emphasizes how the Permian football program, like many more in Texas, chews up its players, spits them out at graduation, and moves onto the next team, the next set of heroes. It is a sad commentary on the priorities of our country when it comes to football or education and.......

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