A/N: So with the second game I've decided to incorporate some CFL rules into the game as it is the football game I am most familiar with and it allows me to use some more interesting plays that are not possible with NFL rules. When I use CFL rules I will mention them at the bottom of the update for those who may not be aware of the difference between the leagues. Once again I want to give thanks to DaveTheWordsmith and KODfreak for reviewing and giving great feedback. Everyone you should check out and review their works because there is some great stuff there if you haven't already, especially "Choices" a great fic by DaveTheWordsmith and KODfreak's "The Other Guy". Also check out and review "Life Goes On" by DaBlackGoku one of my favourite fics on the site. Please review this chapter and the one I put up late last night and tell me what you think about both of them as individual chapters and as part of the larger story.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Boondocks, Aaron McGruder and Sony Pictures does.
Chapter 21 – Reagan Second Quarter
"We've got them where we want them," Huey said to his team on the bench. Looking at all of them they were not as tired after the first quarter as they had been last game. Driving them to near death was so far paying off. "Just keep pushing."
"We have to be careful though. They've already tried to take out our players before the game if we get too much of a lead they may resort to dirty plays," Caesar warned. "Just because a play is over don't let your guard down and don't get sucked into any of their tricks."
"We don't plan on it," Hiro said. "Just get us the ball we'll take care of the rest."
"We can watch our own backs," Jason added putting his helmet back on his head.
"Alright then get us some more points. I don't want a nail biter like last time," Huey finished as the official blew his whistle to signal the start of next quarter.
On the other side of the field Riley got to his feet, breathing a little heavy. Playing receiver was nothing like being the running back. When he was running back he only went all out when he got the ball as a receiver he ran all the time on every play even when the ball was nowhere near him. If that wasn't enough he was constantly chasing after Jason while playing defence and Jason always ran the longest routes.
Riley lined up to start the second quarter on the long side with Brooks just a little behind him out of his normal tight end position. As he had hoped Jason lined up against him again while Hiro lined up against Brooks.
Corey snapped the ball and Riley took off on his hook route, but Jason was close on his tail. Corey seeing Riley covered by Jason changed his target and threw a short pass to Brooks who was immediately taken down for a first down.
Riley ran back to the huddle steaming. "Ya supposed to pass da ball to me. I was wide open."
"You were covered Riley. If I threw it too you it would have been intercepted," Corey explained but it did not calm the irate receiver.
"Just give me da damn ball," Riley demanded angrily as they lined up again.
"Ah poor Riley getting upset because someone else is getting the spotlight," Jason taunted as he lined up opposite of Riley again.
"Shut up nigga if I get da ball I'll make ya look like a fool," Riley replied hotly as Corey snapped the ball and he ran down the field before slanting in to the middle, but once again Jason was on him. Jason left the slightest gap between him and Riley drawing Corey into throwing to Riley. After the ball was released, Jason put on a burst of speed and with a slight cut got in front of Riley and using his height jumped to catch the ball as it was coming down toward Riley.
"Boo-yah," Jason shouted as he came down with the ball and started back toward his down defensive line. Behind him Riley was too stunned to even think about following. He had just been played for a fool. When he had broken away from his rival he thought it was because of his superior speed, but Jason had just been toying with him.
Jason stutter stepped behind Caesar who like the rest of his team had all drifted to the receiver once he intercepted the ball. His stutter step tricked Brooks who not used to playing and he took the bait and ran smack into Caesar who threw him aside. With the help of his team Jason ran the ball in for a touchdown and with Jazmine's chip shot increased their lead to 24-14.
In the end zone Jason kicked the ball up with heels up over his shoulders and down to his foot where he balanced the ball in the crook of his foot before knocking it up again and booting it through the uprights.
"I told ya to enjoy the feel of the ball cuz now the ball is mine whenever it comes anywhere near you," Jason shouted back to Riley who was walking up the field for the extra point kick. With the point in Riley walked back to his side of the field for the kickoff
"What happened Riley?" Alex asked as his receiver rejoined his team for the kick off.
"He fuckin' toyed wit' me nigga. He let me think I was ahead of him so ya'd throw da ball to me and den he sped up," Riley said angrily.
"You said you could compete with him," Corey said disappointed.
"I can but the nigga just caught me by surprise. I won't let it happen again," he said determined to catch the ball next time.
"Enough talk, just do it. We brought you on to win not so you can give up the ball," Alex threatened.
"Whateva nigga just get me da ball again," Riley replied unfazed jogging back to his place at their fifteen.
"I warned you," Brooks said passing by Riley to take up the other return position. "They'll turn on ya without a second thought if you fail them."
"I'm not gonna lose," Riley said shutting out the tight end.
"You're not doing a very good job of it," Brooks said getting in the last word as he got out of hearing distance of his new friend.
Jazmine kicked the ball down the field right to Riley, but Riley missed catching it in the air and was forced to chase the ball back into the end zone. He scooped the ball up in the end zone but only made it to their three yard line before being hit.
"Fuck!" Alex cursed stamping his feet and balling his hands into fists. "Fuck!"
"I'm sorry. It slipped out of my hands," Riley tried to apologize to his team in the huddle.
"It's alright it happens to everyone," Brooks said but Alex was steaming.
"No it's not alright Tex. Riley is supposed to be an elite player he can't be dropping the ball. I'm starting to think we should have gone after someone else instead," Alex fumed and it only got Riley angrier.
"Shut da fuck up nigga. I'm da best dere is. We had a deal. Get me da ball or I leave," he threatened breaking the huddle before Alex could.
"Fine but if you screw up again you'll be sitting the next series after that," Alex warned fed up with Riley's attitude.
Corey hiked the ball at his three yard line and dropped back into the end zone to hand the ball off to Alex who tried to take the ball around the corner of the line but Huey had called for a full team blitz to try and get the safety. Huey, Jason, Caesar, and Cindy broke through the line all heading directly for Alex. Huey caught him first, driving his shoulder into Alex's torso and throwing him to the ground for the safety.
"I told you there would be more to come. Now you can give us back the ball," Huey said taking a lot of satisfaction in hitting Alex again. "If you don't want to get hurt you better watch your mouth from now on."
"Why your precious little hoe's ears to..." Alex began to say until Huey slammed his head into the turf.
"I said watch you mouth," Huey glared as the official threw up his penalty flag and called a fifteen yard penalty for malicious unnecessary roughness to be added on the punt. Huey just smirked at Alex accepting the penalty as a fair exchange for his actions and got off the Reagan captain.
Alex tried to stand up and return to his team but he ran into another Black Panther. Caesar stood in his way a scowl on his face. "You got off lucky this time, but if I hear anything like that come out of your mouth about my team again, I'll make sure it's the last thing you ever say for a long, long time," he threatened before rejoining his team.
"I'm sorry about that guy," Huey apologized to his team. "I just couldn't let him say those things."
"There's nothing to apologize for B. He got what he deserved and we'd all gladly take da penalty for it," Cindy said and everyone nodded their agreement.
"I don't think it's enough though. We have to make them pay enough more on the scoreboard brah," Johnny added as they lined up for the punt.
The Reagan kicker punted the ball down the field to Cindy who brought the ball back seven yards before being hit.
Huey rushed the ball on the next two plays getting the first down by himself after on both plays he found all his receivers covered or in the case of Johnny and Jason double covered. On the next play Johnny managed to get open down the field and Huey threw a bullet to his new receiver. The ball cut through the two players converging on him and Johnny with his sure hands made the catch and got another five yards before being hit. Huey went to Johnny again for a difficult pass in the air. Johnny got up in the air pulling the ball down but was dragged down at the waist by a safety for his second straight first down.
Huey ran the ball again twice and handed off to Cindy for a total of eight yards. Now in their fourth down Huey called for a field goal preferring the three points on a 33 yard field goal attempt then try and get the two yards and risk losing the ball so close to the Reagan end zone. Once again Jazmine hit that once elusive long field goal this time clearing the uprights completely to make the score 29-14 as the clock passed the three and a half minute mark.
Back on the offensive Corey threw two short passes to Brooks who moved the chains, before Alex was once again held up behind the line of scrimmage by Huey who once again mercilessly hammered his counterpart. They were pushed back again when Caesar sacked Corey breaking right up the centre of the Reagan line catching Corey still in the pocket while he looked for the covered Riley down field.
Needing large yards on their third down with only a minute and a half left Corey through a long bomb down the field to Riley who this time determined to beat Jason suddenly hooked back toward the ball forcing his way into the inside. With outstretched arms he caught the ball as Jason tried to knock it from his hands at the same time as he was pulling Riley to the ground. Unlike the other times Riley managed to keep hold of the ball this time when he hit the ground. Riding this momentum, Riley caught his next pass and thanks to a timely block from Brooks on Jason ran it into the end zone for his second touchdown on the game and make the score 29-21 for the Black Panthers. Boos rained down on him once again but he was getting used to it. To celebrate this time he did a simple flip happy to have finally beaten Jason even if it was only one play. He hoped though to turn that one play into series of plays in the next half of the game.
Once again Cindy returned the ball to her own forty before being tackled. Huey let the play clock run out before he had Caesar snap the ball again and threw a short screen pass to Hiro who was brought down as soon as he caught the ball. On his next play he let the play clock run down again until there was one second left and Caesar snapped the ball. This time he handed the ball off to Cindy and through a block on the blitzing safety allowing Cindy to get into the Roughback's secondary. Using her strength she stiff armed the other safety and gained another ten yards before she was brought down.
With only five seconds left on the clock and it still running Huey quickly signalled for a time out to stop the clock. He gathered his team in a huddle to work out their last play of the half.
"We need more points. They only need a touchdown and a two point conversion to catch up," Huey said to his team. "I wanted to be at more than a touchdown up by the half. We can't leave them with any ideas of making a quick comeback in the third quarter and with Riley on their team they could do that on our first punt or missed field goal."
"What do you have in mind brah?" Johnny asked. "We're too far from the end zone to risk something like a Hail Mary it could easily be intercepted."
"I have a plan," Huey said looking at Jazmine. "We need to kick the ball through their end zone for the rouge point."
"Rouge point?" Johnny asked.
"It's a new rule for this year the league is trying out. They adopted it from the Canadian rules," Jason said proudly. "So far we haven't seen much of it because it's so new and the position of the uprights limits its use. Basically on a kick if we can either get the ball through their end zone and out of bounds or force the other team down the ball in their end zone we will get an extra point."
"So we need to punt then," Cindy said also looking at Jazmine.
Jazmine looked down the field to the white line surrounding the end zone and shook her head. "It's nearly sixty yards I can't punt the ball that far."
"If she can't do it then give me the ball, I'll get us into the end zone," Jason said with his cocky smirk.
"Fine, but we're trusting you on this one Jay, we need the points," Huey said breaking the huddle and lignin up for the snap. The clock began running again and Caesar snapped the ball back to Huey as the clock hit 00:01. He tossed a short pass over to Jason who was just behind the line of scrimmage. Jason easily caught the ball and while everyone expected him to run the ball, but he didn't.
Instead Jason held the ball in both hands like he was going to punt it. He then took three steps to the line of scrimmage and punted it down the field. The ball went end over end into the end zone where it bounced irregularly several times before going out of bounds. The official signalled for the single point and then blew his whistle for the end of the half with the score now 30-21 giving Huey the nine point lead he wanted.
With half the game over Huey's team have a commanding 9 point lead but can they maintain it in the second half? With his game going up and down can Riley prove he is the better receiver in the second half? What will Alex half to say to his team during the half time?
CFL Incorporation – Rouge Point
In the CFL any kick that goes into the end zone is a live ball, except for a successful field goal or if the goalposts are hit while the ball is in flight. If the player receiving the kick fails to return it out of the end zone, or (except on a kickoff) if the ball was kicked through the end zone, then the kicking team scores a single point also called a rouge point.