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Here you go.
Here's your locker room.

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It was only a game.
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Just a touch football game,
nothing more,

:48:25
but a game I wish
we'd never played.

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Guards against inmates.
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The guards practised
four times a week.

:48:32
Our team was picked
the Monday before the game.

:48:35
We had a 2-hour practice.
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Didn't matter much.
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We weren't supposed to win.
:48:40
We were just supposed
to show up.

:48:42
Who's the toughest guy out here?
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How do you mean, tough?
:48:47
Who can talk
and have everyone listen?

:48:49
Black kid over there.
:48:52
Michael saw an opening,
:48:53
a chance to bring
the game to our level,

:48:55
even out the field,
:48:57
but he needed help.
:48:59
He needed Rizzo.
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Black kid with an Italian name.
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With Rizzo on our side,
we had a chance.

:49:05
Look, white boy,
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I don't know
what you play in the streets.

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I don't care,
:49:09
but in here,
the guards call the play,

:49:10
and the play calls them
to win the game.

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Why?
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Oh, man...
:49:14
Guards steer clear
of me, all right?

:49:16
They stay back
and let me do my time.

:49:18
If I play in a game and I put
a hurtin' on one of them,

:49:20
that just might
change my cushion.

:49:21
I'm not saying we gotta win.
:49:23
I just don't want
to take a beatin'.

:49:25
We do every day.
:49:26
Why's Saturday special?
:49:28
'Cause on Saturday,
we can hit back.

:49:31
Really?
:49:32
They don't fuck
with you like they do us,

:49:34
but they fuck
with you another way.

:49:36
You're just an animal to 'em.
:49:38
I don't give a fuck.
:49:39
Yeah, you do.
:49:41
And beatin' them on Saturday,
:49:42
that's not going
to change a thing.

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Then why, white boy? Why?
:49:46
To make them feel
what we feel...

:49:49
Just for a couple of hours.
:49:52
Now, don't try
anything funny, Sambo.

:49:54
Nobody'll get hurt.
You know what I'm sayin'?

:49:56
I call heads.
:49:57
He calls heads.

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