Demons Run When A Good Man Goes to War - 2/2 Football Blogs

“Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man goes to war

Friendship dies and true love lies
Night will fall and the dark will rise
When a good man goes to war

Demons run, but count the cost
The battle's won, but the child is lost”

― Steven Moffat

            Last weekend, we played an excruciatingly tough game against the Petal Panthers for the second round of playoffs. Of course, we won, but during the time we were playing, bystanders on the sidelines witnessed one of our most collected players go from calm to angry. Senior quarterback Kirk McCarty is one of Mississippi’s truest talents with a knack for football, baseball, and most surprisingly, newspaper. But that isn’t what I’m getting to. He is one of the few people, alongside teammates Logan Scott and Luke Little, who are calm and collected on the field and off the field. So when fans and spectators heard of a change in Kirk’s attitude, everyone became a lot more shocked than usual.

            When a Petal player decided to take typical Petal trash talk onto the field, they targeted McCarty directly, using their time on defense as a way to scream insults at the quarterback. After tackling him one time and insulting him and taunting him, the player went from careful to raging. During the 3^rd quarter, Kirk suddenly had a change in thoughts and instead of playing it safe and throwing the ball to Logan Scott and Jordan Duncan, who were wide open, he took the game into his own hands…literally. He ran the ball himself every chance he had, proving to the Petal players, who were taunting him earlier, that he was not a force to be reckoned with. In fact, McCarty took the time to get back at one of the players and telling the referee that the fight was not even his to begin with. That same player got in trouble by the refs for using foul language. Lesson learned? Don't mess with him.

            The Panthers proved to be a worthy match, but not worthy enough, in the end. McCarty and his Warriors pulled through until the end, showing Petal that the cockiest people get beat the worst. It took a lot to make him angry, and that event proved that you must’ve pissed him off badly to make him react like that. But in the end, just like the quote says, “Demons run when a good man goes to war.”