Clovis News-Journal: Day 85, Friday Night Lights: Part 4

Some of the outlaying towns around here are pretty small, but they still have football teams. One version of football for a small school is 8-man football. Basically take out 2 offensive linemen and the fullback. Really, it's more like backyard ball with pads. I couldn't determine any set plays, besides when Melrose was on defense, one of the coaches kept yelling "MONKEY, MONKEY, MONKEY 23!" So I guess they were running a monkey 23 defense. On the offensive side of the ball, one of two things happened. Either everyone went deep (much like backyard ball) or the qb kept it and ran. I'm not even going to get to the announcer who had no idea what down it was, who just did what, or how far the last play went for. He had someone in the box giving him the name of the kid that just did something. I was amused.