Someone at the Arkansas Activities Association had given coaches an opportunity to replay the final minutes of a famous high school championship football game from the 1980s, and it all seemed perfectly reasonable to Rock and the coaches.
The key issue was a punt play late in the game in which the coach of the receiving team was allowed to decide whether the ball should be punted again. No one could remember what had happened in the first place, but the general consensus was that the play had no meaningful bearing on the outcome of the game.
This old coach—the overweight, gray-haired, sadly weathered man all coaches become—said they should just let the thing from all those years ago stand. The deal was, he would have to field the punt himself.
"I don't think that would turn out well," he said.
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