"Go Tigers!" is a rare behind-the-scenes chronicling of a remarkable season for the Massillon Tigers high school footbal | dG1fRDl0R2NseWIxTVE
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00:43 >> This town breeds their young boys to play football.
00:46 >> The identity of the town is what takes place at the school.
00:49 >> Somebody say I'm from New York, so I'm from Massillon.
00:51 >> Football is the heart of Massillon.
00:53 >> They got to have this. People live for this.
00:55 >> I think Massillon is a little America.
00:58 >> They got one of the most expensive programs going in the state.
01:02 >> Using this little brown pigskin, do some things for the people in this town.
01:05 >> The textbook never has.
01:07 >> And the boys who don't play football, they look at them like, you punk.
01:10 >> I'm out of here when I turn 18. This town is old.
01:15 >> Keep it going, you're looking good.
01:18 >> Any son of a coach is under a little more pressure.
01:21 >> I'm just kind of using football for my whole life, playing here.
01:23 >> I hope he's a guy I can marry.
01:25 >> If I'd have got out and didn't go to jail, you wouldn't be talking to me now, because I would be in jail.
01:31 >> It's safe to say football saved my life.
01:32 >> When the cut took place, the first thing that came to my mind was football.
01:35 >> I was thinking, man, I might be done.
01:37 >> We all got held back in the 8th grade.
01:39 >> We all were held back just to play football. That's all it was.
01:41 >> And they know that the reason they're not going to high school that year, so they can be bigger.
01:45 >> They can be stronger. And when they're in senior high school, it will help.
01:48 >> This will be the 106th game, the 106th year we've been playing, and we have never liked each other.
01:55 >> You guys, I don't want this recorded.
01:58 >> The Achilles game is the most important game of your life when you play for Masson.
02:01 >> You just got to win.
02:03 >> Oh, my God.
02:05 >> Oh, boy. That would make a good wide receiver.
02:08 >> Drive now, let's go, Lon!
02:10 >> We have this casket making it the Masson Tiger casket.
02:13 >> Get in, baby!
02:26 Bottom line is win.
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