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Chapter 7: Things Start To Heat Up

At football practice Don is trying not to make practices like he did when he played Tom when he was the coach of Redford.

"You need to eye that running back Jesse." Don told his son.

"He is there whole game plan. Whereever he is that's where the ball goes 90 percent of the time." Don then told his defense.

"I got him coach." Jesse said to him.

"That's great. And D-Line you need to ingage with those O-Linemen they have at Lakeside. They are big, mean and strong. They can't get to our linebackers. If they get to our linebackers, that runningback just got himself a first down." Don said to his D-Linemen.

"We got it coach." Drew told him. (Drew's a senior defensive tackle.)

"You guys need to use your quickness. You out hustle them, they will tire and get sloppy." Don them told them.

"Okay coach." Drew then said to him.

Don continues to run his practice. He hasn't gone overboard yet. After practice him and Jesse start to talk on the drive home.

"How areyou felling?" Don asked him.

"I'm felling good." Jesse replied.

"That's great because you're a big part of our game plan." Don said to him.

"Dad just don't go crazy like you did at Redford." Jesse told him.

"I'll try." Don told him.

"That's all I ask." Jesse said to him.

"I think I did pretty well today." Don then said to him.

"You did. I think you're making a big step in the right direction." Jesse told him.

"Thanks Jess." Don said to him.

They get home. Tom sees them get out of the car and goes over to them.

"Hey guys." Tom said to them.

"Hey Mr. Baker." Jesse said to him as he went inside.

"What is it Tom?" Don asked him.

"I just wanted to see how everything is doing." Tom told him.

"We're doing fine Tom." Don told him.

"That's good." Tom replied.

"How's everything at your house?" Don then asked him.

"Good. Couldn't be better." Tom told him.

"That's great. Tom enough small talk. Why are you really here?" Don then asked him.

"I can't see how my neighbors and friendsare doing?" Tom then asked him.

"Tom we've known each other since college. Hell we even friends at one point." Don said to him.

"Don I'm not trying to do anything but, have a friendly conversation with you." Tom said to him.

"All right let's talk then." Don said to him.

"My kids are friends with your kids and our wives are friends. Why can't we be friends?" Tom asked him.

"We can be friends." Don told him.

"That's great." Tom said to him.

"Just not this week. I'll see you on the football field on Saturday afternoon." Don told him as he went inside his house.

Tom goes back to his house and is planning his gameplan for Fairfield.

"Honey what are you doing?" Kate asked him as she saw what he was doing.

"Making a gameplan that will wipe that smug look off Don's face." Tom told her.

"It's Jimmy Murtaugh all over again." Kate said to him.

"It's different this time." Tom told her.

"Really, how?" Kate then asked him.

"This is a matter of a football game." Tom told her.

Kate walks out of the kitchen and shakes her head.

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