Wouldn't it have been a better story had Bakersfield been up 3-0 and Jack's drop caused Taft to actually lose the game?
shareBut then why would the winning team agree to a rematch? They had won and would have nothing to gain by playing again.
shareit was based on true events. I am from Bako and my dad and some some of his friends where talkin about it once or twice. anyway thats why.
shareYou're right; that WOULD have been better. Or, since Reno was supposed to be such a stud, it seemed like he should already have put some points on the board. Maybe trailing 19-14 or something.
shareReno was a stud for around there. In reality, he was only "pretty good". In other words, Reno was a stud compared to the garbage they had put together for decades.
And it wasn't based on any story. Ron Sheldon was inspired to write based off the rivarly he experienced when he went to high school. He didn't go to neither of those schools.
You raise an interesting point. Was Remo great, only coimpared to what that school had produced in the past, or was he really an NCAA prospext before his knee was ruined? Obviously, there is no way of knowing.
The scoreless tie always struck me as a little funn, too. They make a big deal about Reno & his offensaive line...and say nothing about the '72 team's defense...yet it's ascoreless. If they wanted a tie, it always seemed to me like 20-20 or at least 14-14 or something would have been better.
It was fine the way it was. Bakersfield was always a powerhouse in the rivalry. Always beating Taft 86-0 or something like that. Taft's defense held them scoreless, so that probably meant Taft's offence was on the field a lot more, running up and down the field but never getting into the end zone. Bakersfield's defense had to be pretty good too, keeping Taft scoreless. They beat each other down in a tough game so to speak. Bakersfield felt lucky to get away with a tie.
2-2 would have been my second choice of end scores actually.
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2-2 would have been my second choice of end scores actually.
The score could be 2-2 if each team got a safety.
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No problem. When I was in HS I was actually in a game that ended in a 2-2 tie, both defenses were on fire that night. But we still lost because at the time in Texas if a game ended in a tie after regulation they announced a winner based on stats. Whichever team had the most red zone penetrations would win, but since neither team had any of those (like I said, the defenses were on fire) it came down to who had the most first downs. And that was them. I was so mad, especially since the very next year they did away with that crap and started having OT.
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