Football
The Millard North Mustangs football team played in the Nebraska high school state championship game for four consecutive years (2002–2005) and won state championships in 2003, 2005, 2010, and 2012. The 2004 team finished with the third-highest rushing total by a team in one season in high school football history, with one 2000-yard rusher and two 1500-yard rushers. In 2006 the Mustangs defeated Lincoln Southwest High School in a five-overtime bout that currently stands as the longest game in Nebraska playoff football history. The Mustangs returned to the state championship game in 2007, losing to Omaha Central 26-21. In 2010, the Mustangs returned once more to the state championship game in 2010, they came back from a 17-0 deficit to beat Millard South high school 28-20. In 2012, Millard North made it to the state championship yet again to play the Omaha North Vikings. After a scoreless 1st half, both teams scored back and forth until the Vikings missed a field goal attempt to seal a Mustang victory, 17-14.
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“Idon’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.”
—David Storey (b. 1933)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)