It took a perfect storm of factors for the ending of Plano East-John Tyler to go viral before the phrase even entered our lexicon. What other high school game made “SportsCenter” for three straight nights? Or captured the attention of Jay Leno and David Letterman? Or sent millions to YouTube to watch grainy highlights? Or inspired reality TV producers to try to stage a rematch two decades later? Green starred in maybe the most famous high school football game ever played, the amazing, preposterous, soul-crushing 1994 Texas playoff game between John Tyler and Plano East. “All these years later, they still replay it.”

“Sure enough, the game was on,” Green said.