[Pulp Fiction]

"Failure isn't failure if a lesson is learned." From 1970-2015, Johnson Central learned a lot of lessons on the football field over that time span. It began to rain in 1970.... it started off with some very scattered rain drops. Every now and then, the rain would be harder than before. Sometimes, it would let up and barely sprinkle. Other times, it would be a pretty steady down pour. For the past five or six seasons.... we all knew a Flood was gonna happen, we just didn't know when. Last year, a flood hit... but it we didn't get as much rain as was predicted.

But something was different this year. This year, in the off-season, we had a current football player die tragically. Two recent JC football players passed away. One current player was thought to have a very serious case of cancer, but thank God, that wasn't the case. Our county was hit last year by a severe flash flood were hundreds of homes and three lives were lost. A few years ago, a tornado hit a different part of our county. Again, hundreds of homes were lost and a few people died.

But nothing could keep this flood from hitting!!!! We saw the players in the weight room all winter & spring and hitting new PR's, and then they would call out their teammates on social media to match their totals.

Hearing the whispers of how many players were benching over 300 lbs., how fast our 40 yd. times were, how many players were back out this year, how much faster our team looked in drills and passing leagues...... but what we didn't know was when would the Dam bust.

The first nine games, the water was just starting to crest......
The Belfry game... we saw what really could be.....
Then came the playoffs... and the Dam couldn't hold back the Flood waters any more.

Five games and five dominating performances where JC just 'washed' everybody off the field..... and it wasn't even close.

The 48-0 victory wasn't just a win. That 48-0 blowout was years and years of sitting through seasons of not being able to win a game or being so close & being just a few players away from having a team as special as this one.... from not having 40 people in the stands for a home game back in the 2003 season to having over 2,500 people make the 4+ hour trip to Bowling Green on a cold, rainy Sunday.


The victory parade had about two mile procession of vehicles meeting the team at the County line and escorted them through town and was met at the school by over 1,000 people for their victory celebration. Former players, coaches, cheerleaders, students..... family and friends...... our community came out and showed this team how much those Friday nights mean to us.