1960: My uncle is the FBI Director

Chapter 82 Explosive Rugby (Please continue reading)
The conflict over equality continues to tear Emily apart.

Felton was also inevitably affected.

This influence is evident in all aspects of life, and reached new heights after a rugby match.

The freedom fighters defeated the Southern knights!

Woodson Memorial High School beats Jackson High School!
A Black team from a Black school beat a white team from a white school!

This was the penultimate game of the regular season, and the Black team, the Freedom Fighters, managed to defeat their opponent, the Southern Cavaliers.

Cruel devastation.

They only need to win one more game to secure a spot in the playoffs.

This is the first time since the Felton School Football League was founded!
For the first time, a Black team has made it to the playoffs!

All the black people in Felton went crazy.

A total of 17 people, including the Southern Knights' coach and key players, were attacked that night and were hospitalized.

More than 3% of the students dropped out of Jackson High School and transferred to other schools.

Jackson High School and its Southern Knights became the laughingstock of all of Felton.

While people mocked the Southern Knights, they also began to place high hopes on the Oak Manor High School Conquerors, hoping they could get things back on track.

In a newspaper interview, the Conquerors' quarterback boasted that he would make sure the Freedom Fighters didn't get a single point and that they should go back to picking cotton.

He has the confidence to say these things.

Despite their offensive coach being imprisoned, being embroiled in a doping scandal, the head coach leaving the team, and morale so low that the school board was considering abandoning the season.

They all pulled through.

They are currently in first place in their group.

White gangs like KKK have threatened to retaliate against the entire coaching staff and players of both the Freedom Fighters and the Conquerors teams if the Freedom Fighters win.

A day later, the black gang also threatened that if the conquerors won, they would kill the players and coaches' entire families.

This was followed by several street shootouts, resulting in the arrest of over a hundred people.

Congressmen such as Howard have also publicly expressed their support for the Conquerors and announced that they will be present at the match.

The atmosphere was already heated even before the competition started.

On the day of the final regular season game, at least 1 people flocked to Oak Manor High School to watch the game.

Black people from all over flocked to the Oak Estate High School campus, but they were restricted from entering the stadium to watch the game and could only cheer for their compatriots from outside the stadium.

They were later expelled from the Oak Estate School campus and forbidden from entering Oak Estate School.

This caused quite a disturbance.

Congressmen Howard, Carter, and others kept their promise, with members of the school's board of trustees accompanying the players to watch the game. Their seats were right next to the Conquerors' coaching bench.

At 3 p.m., the players from both sides entered the field.

The Conquerors' players were cheered like a triumphant army, but when it was the Freedom Fighters' turn, they were met with boos from the crowd.

After the match began, the Conquerors were in excellent form and full of momentum.

The freedom fighters, however, were hesitant and timid, and even broke out infighting in the third quarter.

The stands were filled with singing and dancing, and the audience kept cheering for the players' names. They believed that the game was over and that this was the normal rhythm of the match.

How can a team that finishes at the bottom every year beat the team that finishes first in the regular season?
This feeling reached its peak at the start of the final quarter.

The head coach of the Freedom Fighters has disappeared!
Even the most cautious people felt it was time to pop the champagne and celebrate.

However, the fourth quarter did not unfold as they had anticipated.

The Freedom Fighters began to exert their strength and fight back, finally turning the score around with a Thousand Blessings Mary!

16:18. The arena was completely silent, except for the Freedom Fighters players shouting.

After a brief silence, countless pieces of debris rained down, turning the entire sports field into a boiling pot of water, accompanied by a constant stream of curses.

Quarterback "The Rocket" Leroy Davis was hit on the head by debris and bled profusely. With blood streaming down his face, he roared at Howard, demanding to know why he wouldn't give them a fair chance.

Howard got up and left without expression.

Another perpetrator of the tragedy, wide receiver Nathaniel Green, nicknamed "Ghost," ran over and hugged Leroy Davis. The two held hands, opened their arms, and welcomed the rain of debris.

The more enthusiastically the audience threw the objects, the louder they shouted.

Other players and coaches joined in, standing with them and roaring at the debris flying everywhere.

Impulsive spectators began rushing towards the stadium.

The security guard responsible for maintaining order made a token stop before stepping aside.

The 'freedom fighters' were quickly overwhelmed by the crowd.

It was only then that the people who had been expelled from the school and onto the street learned what had happened on the sports field.

Organized by several gang members, they quickly overwhelmed the school security guards and rushed towards the sports field.

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The West District Police Station had contingency plans for this match.

Chief Widke was stationed at the precinct, with Deputy Commissioner Burton personally in command, and all detectives canceled their leave and were on standby at any time.

At the first sign of the riots, the entire West District Police Station was mobilized to disperse and suppress the unrest.

Nevertheless, the riots resulted in hundreds of injuries.

At least 10 members of the Freedom Fighters coaching staff and players were carried away.

Most hospitals in Felton did not admit Black people; they could only go to hospitals or clinics specifically for Black people.

Detectives from the homicide squad were also dispatched to the scene to maintain order, including Theodore and Bernie.

But Deputy Superintendent Burton assigned them the task of carrying the wounded.

For the first four hours of the crackdown, the two of them stayed in the same car with Deputy Commissioner Burton.

They did not enter the scene until the situation was initially brought under control.

After two hours of evacuation and search and rescue, the riot finally ended late at night.

A small number of people on both sides refused to leave, gesturing and cursing across the police car.

After being indiscriminately attacked with batons by the detectives, both groups left after uttering threats.

Deputy Inspector Burton, along with Carhorse and Winner, were invited to the office building by the principal of Oak Manor High School, while the detectives carried out the final cleanup work.

They need to work with campus security to conduct a final search of the campus to ensure that no dangerous individuals or injured persons are missed.

Theodore and Bernie were assigned to the sports field.

This area is a major site of conflict and has been searched multiple times.

The two started from the stands, walked towards the stadium covered in trash, and finally went into the locker room.

The home team's locker room was a mess, with equipment scattered all over the floor. It was completely empty; there wasn't a soul in sight.

The away team's locker room was even more cramped and narrow than the home team's, and you could smell a strong musty and foul odor from the doorway.

The light bulbs in the changing room were also broken. When the wind blew, something would creak and groan.

The two men turned on their flashlights, went through the changing room, and found a body in the innermost stall of the toilet.

A "wonderful Mary" can be simply understood as a game-winning shot, a buzzer-beater. A quarterback can be simply understood as the offensive core, specifically the absolute core player; a poor offense is entirely the quarterback's fault.

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