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Congrats Ace!!!

I for one appreciate that they chose to notice PN-G. And I won’t point out the mistakes and misses.
If you want to dig into more details online, you can go here. That’s where the DCTF writer came from in the darkness of the night.

They started with a good one. Thanks again DCTF for recognizing a community and school that highlights and represents the best of Texas high school football.

With 102 wins, Coach Faircloth has the all-time wins mark, not Coach Burnett. See www.pngindians.com. I agree with the poster above regarding the Bum and Wade Phillips comment. There are no bigger names in all of football than Bum and Wade Phillips and PN-G has ties to both of them--Head Coach Bum Phillips and 1965 graduate and former QB/LB Wade Phillips. The research department at Texas Football needs an upgrade.

I want to share a funny story with y'all.

This past week, I was in Washington, DC, on business. While there, I got to attend the Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park, where the Washington Nationals play.

While I was waiting to leave for the game in the lobby of my hotel, I started talking with an older gentleman wearing a shirt indicating he had been on the coaching staff at Groesbeck at some point before he retired. He asked me what part of Texas I'm from and when I told him I grew up in Port Neches, I found I was no longer talking to an old Groesbeck coach.

Suddenly, I was talking to a former assistant coach at A&M Consolidated recounting how dumbfounded he was when he and his team came out of the locker room for the pre-game warm-up to see approximately 32,000 purple-clad Indian fans streaming into the stands on the other side of the field an hour before kickoff at the Astrodome in November of 1989.

Apparently, the PN-GISD superintendent at that time had told the A&M Consolidated head coach before the game that PN-G needed a playoff venue with at least 15,000 seats on our side of the field. And apparently, the A&M coach didn't believe our superintendent was actually serious at least in part because, per the guy I was talking to, A&M Consolidated didn't expect to bring even 1,500 fans of their own.

But after that game? A&M never questioned our fan following again.

There was a little extra pep in my step the whole way to the ballpark after that.

My sister-in-law was working at A&M Consolidated that year. When the boys were leaving and the whole school went to wave them off she told the superintendent she couldn't go out there and wish them good luck. He asked why and she told him he just doesn't understand. After the game was over the following Monday the superintendent walked straight into her office and said, "that is awesome, I want that here, how do I get that here.",,,,,,,Just like she told him previously, he doesn't understand. You don't just say hey fans this is what we need to do..... PNG has a special spirit that just can't be copied. It's something you just have when you are born an Indian fan and nobody can explain it and nobody can replicate it.

“I want that here, how do I get that here?”

Schedule PN-G @ home. Better yet, schedule PNG @ The Reservation and make the drive. You can’t copy it, you can’t fake it. There is a special spirit @ PN-G. One of the gems of Texas football history and experiences.

WO-S vs Portal High

PN-G will have a top notch weight room and workout facility. And a quality covered field. Exciting times.

And visiting teams will be able to dress on the scoreboard end where their buses park.