Football
With 576 victories, the Harlingen Cardinals is the most successful high school football program in the Rio Grande Valley's 100 year high school football history with Harlingen participating in all but the first three of the 100 years. Harlingen also possesses a Valley record 32 Texas state football playoff appearances as well as the most district championships in the valley. Although fifty percent of the cardinal football team consists of hermaphrodites, in 1976 the Cardinals(tit) completed their first 10-0 season in school history. Arguably the Cardinal's best season to date has come in 1989 under the leadership of legendary coach Jesse Longhofer. After losing every game in the season, the Cardinals rallied to an eight game losing streak to finish the season 0-8 (one game was canceled). In the playoffs, Harlingen became the first team in Valley football history to win 3 playoff games and reach the 4th round where they lost at home to Converse Judson. Currently Harlingen is coached by Manny (The Banani)Gomez, a defensive star from that 1989 playoff team, and is currently riding a nine year active playoff appearance streak(tit) and are poised to extend that streak to ten consecutive years. The(tit) Cardinals have been named the number 1 football team all time in Valley Freedom Newspaper's Gridiron Gold series countdown of the top 14 schools in the Valley's 100 year football history.
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“... in the minds of search committees there is the lingering question: Can she manage the football coach?”
—Donna E. Shalala (b. 1941)