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Here we go, it’s been a minute but we are going into the finale just a few episode recaps away and honestly I don’t really know WHAT is gonna go down. So let’s get into the black varsity blues that is McKay’s life. I DON’T WANT YOUR LIFE McKay had a tough father, we see him quoting Shakespeare on the football field while practicing with his father. It’s like a serious regimen and when they finish his dad is like okay have a good practice and THEN the rest of the team comes running in. This is little league, or pop warner or what they call football for little kids (obviously I am not your sports person). Point is they are like 10 years old or 11. We see McKay’s dad giving McKay the talk, by that I mean the black man talk, like you gotta fight for what you want, persevere work harder than everyone else all that jazz. It seems like McKay’s dad is a stage mom and he is really training his son to make it to pro, I’m feeling like he’s doing it cuz he never got to go pro. McKay makes it to college on a scholarship of course to state college just 30 miles away from home. Which is why I was like how come he can just keep driving down from college to see Cassie? He’s like 40 mins away tops. At state college he gets the rude awakening that he is not the only one who worked hard his whole life to make it pro. There are players there just as good as him and better. So he does the math on his odds of making it to the big leagues. First of all this man is doing statistics on a napkin while …
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Aisha Jordan is an Actor, Writer, and Producer in new media with a B.A. from The New School and M.A. in Arts and Politics from NYU. She’s a Podcast Producer on I Love a Lifetime…
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