Greendevil71

I have to agree with Asher2012 100%. I watched this game for the first time since that night; with tears falling; just last year on YouTube (thanks again to whoever posted it) and couldn't believe how great that game was. I am not sure how much that game meant to the winning team (they did after all go on to win ANOTHER State Championship), but I surely know what it meant for the losing team... Not only for the players, but for the entire town of Dayton. I am and always will be proud of where I came from, and what we were able to do for a community as a Football team. It was amazing to see our community rally together to support a bunch of High School Football players, who fought their hearts out trying to do something that hasn't happened in that town for 30 years! I will forever remember each and every one of my teammates & coaches from that team and love them all like they were my own brothers. I just recently moved back to Dayton, and still talk about our team with some of the old timers who live in my neighborhood on many Firday nightsover a few beers. Those guys were around & some played with the guys who won the title in '66; and I even see with them how special our team was in their eyes. That game, along with the guys I played with motivated me to be the person I am today. I only wish my job would allow me to get back involved in the community, so I can try to pass the torch to the younger kids of Dayton. Our success started in the Pee Wee leagues, and once we got that taste, it snowballed into something special. We weren't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest... But we would fight you until the very end and played with heart. Some of the kids today don't know what that means... But sometimes, like that night in 1996, heart isn't enough. I don't think I ever said it (or even thought it until now), but congratulations to those Beechwood boys. They were the "dynasty"... And they won that night... But we were those tough little SoB's that almost changed everything.