The Story of Tyler John Tyler vs Plano East and the craziest High School Football game every played

Hear Craig Way tell the story of the "Greatest High School Football Game" ever played between Tyler John Tyler and Plano East in 1994.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I feel compelled to tell the story, and I have
told it before, so if you've heard it before, indulge
me if you will. But I feel compelled to it
because Cameron can't remember me telling it, although I'm pretty
sure that I have, and I have a specific reason
for telling the story.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Back in the nineties and at this time of year.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
This is and I'm reminded of this with Greg Tepper
having just been on hot and heavy with the high
school football playoffs, more so now than ever before, because
you have twelve state champions crown.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
And it's not too many, so don't say it is.
It's not.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
There's not too many teams in the playoffs that don't
say that either, because the cream rises at the top
on that deal and kids get to participate it. Not
only do they get to participate in it, so do
bands and drill teams and parents can see their kids,
so there's nothing wrong with it. It's okay, right. There's
six classifications. There's two divisions in each class because of population.

(00:57):
This is a very very big state. I got into
it with one guy I tried to do it nicely
on Facebook who was just ripping Texas high school football
for playing playoff games out of state, Like there were
three games in New Mexico last weekend and one in Oklahoma.
And I'm like, yeah, one's from l Pass and one's
from the Panhandle. If they can cut off the angle

(01:19):
by playing an Artesia New Mexico, where's the damage? What's
the problem? Got the same thing this week and this
is what sparked it. There's a couple of people just
beside themselves that Texas High from Texas, Cana and Port
and hs Groves, this big time BOFO matchup that Greg
Temper has meant there you know where the're playing the
game in that Cotiice, Louisiana at the in the stadium

(01:43):
of Northwestern State. It's about facilities and economics and if
you can save some money on the travel, what difference
does to make if it's across.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
The state lines.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
That's not germane to the story, but it's part of
what Texas high school football.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Is and the scope and how big it is. So
back in the ninety.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
We were doing playoff games where I worked in Dallas
at KRLD, and then I was also doing games for
the Texas High School Football payoff radio network, which was
called the Diamond Shamrock Network because they were the oil
company that sponsored it now Valera, and they had me
lined up to do one game and then asked me, hey,
could you peel off of that game and go do

(02:24):
another game because our West Texas crew are played by
play guy sick and the game that I was scheduled
to do, I said it's going to be a blowout.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Figured it'd be a blowout.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
The game that they asked me to do, I thought
it was going to be a really good game Arlington Lamar.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
And Midland Lee, and it was. I went out.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
I did it. It went double overtime. We were talking
about tie breakers yesterday. I went by double overtime, I
mean the second tiebreaker, the first being twenty yard line penetrations.
The second one was total first downs, and Midland Lee
by the margin of one, like twenty nine to twenty
eight first downs or whatever.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
It was.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Ended up advancing after a twenty nine to twenty nine tie.
So when it was over, we're driving back in the
town and I said, hey, flip on the radio that
other game, the one that I was gonna do. So
they did, and I got to hear the last three
minutes of John Tyler Playano East, the forty eight to

(03:22):
forty four game, perhaps the most epic playoff game in
Texas high school football history, at least to come back.
The great Gosh a Mighty Joe Friday game where Plano
Weeks was down forty one to seventeen with three and
a half minutes to go in the game. Miraculously, I
think we're covered three on side kicks came all the
way back, got up forty four to forty one with

(03:43):
eleven seconds ago, kicked off of John Tyler ready back
for a touchdown and won the game.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Forty eight forty four, unbelievable game. I was supposed to
get to call that one, but then let go of
it to go. I thought it was gonna be a blowout,
and it was till three and a half minutes it
was forty one to seventeen.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
That was thirty years ago. Go today.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Cameron made me aware of the fact that playing Ois
John Tyler was thirty years ago today, and I'll always
remember that it was something else, a game I didn't call,
but it was, but it was something else. And that's
part of the craziness of Texas high school football, all right,
we'll be back to wrap up our number two here

(04:24):
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