Beneath his hands, Griff felt the silver blue cashmere sweater that Caydance was wearing. He fast forwarded the Huygens Sac Valley film.

At the end of the third quarter, the score was Huygens 31 - Sac Valley 10. A Defense battle ensued. Then with little more than 3 minutes left in the game, Huygens had possession of the ball. The film rolled on.

On the next play, the Harriers blitzed River, but before he went down, he managed to pass the ball to DeJuan, who caught it and ran for another first down. "Not shown on camera, because Sally was running down the field, carrying heavy equipment, following DeJuan, after the ball left River's hands, a Sac Valley tackle threw his body weight on our downed quarterback. Not shown on camera because once again it did not happen is a ref calling roughing the passer.

"I called a time out; made a substitution."

Off the sidelines and onto the field went Oakland born and bred Backup Quarterback, Damian Jefferson Tyler, 260 pounds of well-developed muscle. Reluctantly Damian remembered Griff's instructions "Don't do anything I wouldn't do."

On the couch in the coach's cottage, Griff paused the film and kissed Caydance for a longer interval that would have been appropriate if in real life the game was still in progress.