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Then again, maybe we're just desperate to find an upside to those blue and red paint spots all over the living-room carpet...
...only fair way to hand them out. We called the seniors to the box first and the boys stepped up and picked out a uniform. There were two sets of uniforms, for home and away games, and the numbers needed to match. The home uniforms were white with royal-blue sleeves and gold piping. The shorts were royal blue and the socks white with blue stripes. The away uniforms were royal-blue jerseys with gold piping, gold shorts, and blue socks. On the chest of each of the uniforms was the word JETS. The boys immediately put on their jerseys...
...boys pulled the white-and-blue jerseys over their heads, I gathered them together. I tried to say something to capture the moment."You are the first," I started. "Remember that you are getting the chance that many other Latinos at this school wanted but never got. You are the ones who are making history today. You are the first Latino Jets...
...There were some who never wanted to see this day but here it is. There were some who didn't want you to wear those colors, but here you are in blue and white. There were some who didn't believe you could make the grades, or stay in school, or behave as a team. But here you are. Now you have to prove to everybody that you can win because that's what they want to see, that's what you know you can do. Win. Now we'll see if you have the will. The ganas...
...impersonated here, quite appealingly, by Mark Wahlberg. There also really was (and is) a football coach named Dick Vermeil (Greg Kinnear) who came out of a college career to coach the then downtrodden Eagles and, as a gimmick designed mostly to hearten their discouraged, if ever raucous, blue collar fans, held open the open tryout at which Papale was discovered...