Witten walks into his old high school, Rush-Henrietta, in the early Friday afternnon. It looks the same as it did on his last day of school ten years prior. His old football coach, Engram Pattersky has just resigned due to a health scare. Pattersky called up Witten the day before, asking his most successful player to return home to coach a game while the school looks for a replacement. Witten is an all-around football player with a great strategic mind and a knack for leadership and inspiration. Witten meets with the players of the Rush-Henrietta Royal Comets that evening before the game. He is fairly familiar with the playbook and concepts run by the school. He used to know that playbook by heart. He walks in to the locker room and the players are starstruck. Witten is famous in the area due to his great success in the pros. Witten tells them that they will do what they have been taught by their fantastic previous coach. They need to leave everything on the field in support of Coach Pattersky. Before the game, Witten coaches and offers technique pointers in the brief time leading up to the game and throughout. After going down 21-3 to start the game, Witten makes some halftime adjustments, and the Royal Comets streak to a 45-24 blowout over the rival East High Echos.
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