Yeah. Can't make the list without Robert Ramsey. I couldn't recognize his face if he rang my front door bell, but we at Lifegate could make out every curve of the 33 on the back of his jersey.
We had a game with them back in 2006, I think it was. Both of us unbeaten. Maybe not, now that I think about it, Freddy's 30-some game streak was broken, I think by Dallas Covenant, the week before.
Anyway, we're up 8-6 nearing the end of the half. And we got the ball, deep in Heritage territory. We decide to get a little aggressive and try to add another TD before half. Oops. Ramsey intercepts the ball and goes 80 yards for the score. We're down 14-8 at half.
Okay, second half. Freddy's up 22-16, but we got them pinned deep and it's fourth down. Looks like Freddy is punting so we got a decent chance to get back in this game. Nope. They fake the punt and Ramsey goes in untouched. 30-16, game more-or-less over.
Glad to see Kyle Coffman on the list. His play as center -- being able to slide out a few yards and take the usually un-guarded short dump pass for a big gain was great. But I still remember watching him take a Freddy onside on the bounce at full stride at the state title game in Zephyr and go to the house. (I thought Kyle got married this weekend, but it was his younger brother Kolton, who by my feeble memory can't be any older than 14.)
Dante Johnson at Town East and Castle Hills probably deserves some mention as well. Cripes, that kid only needed someone to snap the ball and give him the pitch. When he was at Town East, we had a game where during the game, Town East was down to five players. We had a harder time defending against him 5 on 6 that 6 on 6, well at least for awhile. Then when he went to Castle Hills, we had a playoff game against them. I think Castle Hills ran 8 or 9 plays in the third quarter. All but one of them was a Dante Johnson touchdown.
