REPLAY the Series

Last updated

REPLAY is a program created by Gatorade that restages classic games of various sports between the biggest high school rivalries in the United States. [1] The first official REPLAY game reunited players from the 1993 Easton Area Red Rovers and the Phillipsburg Stateliners to replay a 1993 game that ended in a tie. [2] On April 26, 2009, the Stateliners won the rematch with a 27-12 win.

Contents

First Official REPLAY the Series Game: Easton & Phillipsburg Rivalry

Separated by the Delaware River, Easton, Pennsylvania and Phillipsburg, New Jersey have had a deep-rooted history in football rivalry since 1906. Since then, every Thanksgiving the teams reunite for the rights to the “Fork of the Delaware” trophy. [3]

In 1993, the two teams played a hard fought game that ended in a 7-7 tie. At the time of the REPLAY game, Easton led the series with a record of 57-40-5. [2]

Easton & Phillipsburg Training

Gatorade launched REPLAY in January 2009, bringing together 60 members of the Phillipsburg and Easton teams involved in their 1993 game. [4] The returning players, then 16 years older, came together in a weekend training camp at each school. During this time they began training and practices as well as met with experts from The Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI).[ citation needed ] Teams also received training from Eagles head coach Andy Reid and all-pro running back, Brian Westbrook at the Eagles’ training facility. [5]

Easton & Phillipsburg Game Day

The 104th meeting of the two schools took place at Lafayette College’s Fisher Field on April 26, 2009. [6] Led by honorary coaches, Gatorade athletes and NFL quarterbacks, Peyton and Eli Manning, the teams played in unseasonably warm 90-degree weather in front of 15,000 fans. [1] The Phillipsburg Stateliners broke the 16-year-long deadlock, winning 27-12 over the Easton Red Rovers. [7]

Gatorade REPLAY, Season Two: Trenton & Detroit Catholic Central Rivalry

In February 2010, Michigan high school hockey powerhouses and rivals - Detroit Catholic Central Shamrocks and the Trenton Trojans - were announced as the participants in Gatorade REPLAY, season two. The rematch brought together the 1999 teams to replay their game that ended in a 4-4 tie due to a severe injury to one of Trenton’s players. [8]

Trenton & Catholic Central Training

Like REPLAY, Season One, the teams were reunited for eight weeks of comprehensive training and nutrition programming developed in partnership with the Gatorade Sports Science Institute and implemented by experts from Velocity Sports Performance – Canton, Mich. Also reunited were original members of each team’s coaching staffs to help prepare for the full-check, regulation length game. [9]

Trenton & Catholic Central Game Day

The Trenton Trojans and Catholic Central Shamrocks met 11 years later on May 9, 2010 to replay the game at the Compuware Arena in Plymouth, Mich. Mr. Hockey, Gordie Howe, served as the REPLAY Season 2 game day commissioner while Brendan Shanahan and Scotty Bowman served as honorary coaches. The Trojans defeated the Shamrocks 4-2, bringing closure to the 1999 game between the two teams. [10]

Gatorade REPLAY, Season Three: Bloom & Brother Rice Rivalry

In June 2010, REPLAY Season Three was announced and will feature two South Side Chicago basketball squads as the newest teams to take part in the award-winning program. Bloom and Brother Rice will reunite to settle the score of their 2000 super sectional game in which Bloom won 42-40 despite a controversial ending involving the game clock. The game is tentatively scheduled to take place in early September. [11]

Bloom Township & Brother Rice Game Day

The original alumni from the Bloom Township and Brother Rice 2000 boys' basketball teams reunited on September 10, 2010 at St. Xavier University’s Shannon Center in Chicago, Illinois. The teams were joined by NBA all-stars Dwyane Wade who served as Bloom's honorary coach and Dwight Howard as Brother Rice's coach. Carlos Boozer also made an appearance as the official REPLAY game day commissioner. The score was settled once and for all as Brother Rice defeated Bloom by a score of 99-93, more than doubling the original score of the 2000 game. [12]

'We Can Do It Now' Original Song Inspired by REPLAY Season 3

Chicago natives Common, Jennifer Hudson, Lupe Fiasco and No I.D. joined forces to create the song "We Can Do It Now" inspired by Season 3 of REPLAY which was featured in the documentary which premiered on FOX Sports Net on November 7, 2010. [13]

Fox Sports Net

In 2009, Fox Sports Net (FSN) partnered with Gatorade to telecast REPLAY, which originated as a series of online web episodes. Seasons 2 and 3 aired nationally on FSN. [14]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Phillipsburg, New Jersey</span> Town in Warren County, New Jersey, United States

Phillipsburg is a town located along the Delaware River that is the most populous municipality in Warren County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the town's population was 15,249, an increase of 299 (+2.0%) from the 2010 census count of 14,950, which in turn reflected a decline of 216 (−1.4%) from the 15,166 counted in the 2000 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Easton, Pennsylvania</span> City in Pennsylvania, United States

Easton is a city in, and the county seat of, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city's population was 28,127 as of the 2020 census. Easton is located at the confluence of the Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long (175 km) river that joins the Delaware River in Easton and serves as the city's eastern geographic boundary with Phillipsburg, New Jersey.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Notre Dame Fighting Irish football</span> American athletic football program of the University of Notre Dame

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the intercollegiate football team representing the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, north of the city of South Bend, Indiana. The team plays its home games at the campus' Notre Dame Stadium, which has a capacity of 77,622. Notre Dame is one of seven schools that competes as an Independent at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level; however, they play five games a year against opponents from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), of which Notre Dame is a member in all other sports except ice hockey.

Petros Papadakis is an American sportscaster who serves as a college football analyst for Fox Sports and co-host of the Petros and Money Show on AM 570 LA Sports. He is a former tailback and team captain for the University of Southern California Trojans football team. He is the self-proclaimed "captain of the worst team in USC history."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trinity High School (Louisville)</span> Private school in Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Trinity High School is a Catholic, all-boys, college preparatory high school located in St. Matthews, Kentucky, a city within Louisville Metro. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville. The school incorporates the Catholic tradition of teaching and learning. The school campus comprises about 1,200 students. In 1992, Trinity was named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. In 1995, Trinity was accredited by the non-profit Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">USC Trojans football</span> American college football team at University of Southern California

The USC Trojans football program represents University of Southern California in the sport of American football. The Trojans compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">American football on Thanksgiving</span> American tradition

American football is one of the many traditions in American culture that is associated with Thanksgiving Day. Virtually every level of football, from amateur and high school to college and the NFL, plays football on Thanksgiving Day (Thursday) or the immediately following holiday weekend.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fisher Stadium</span>

Fisher Stadium is a 13,132-seat multi-purpose stadium in Easton, Pennsylvania. The stadium is home to the Lafayette College Leopards football team. It opened in 1926 as Fisher Field.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Phillipsburg High School (New Jersey)</span> High school in Warren County, New Jersey, United States

Phillipsburg High School is a comprehensive, four-year public high school located in Phillipsburg, in Warren County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The school was first established in 1871. For this reason, the school's nickname is the "Stateliners." The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 2000.

The Phillipsburg School District is a comprehensive public school district in Phillipsburg, in Warren County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from a population of 16,000 people and an area of 3.2 square miles (8.3 km2) in Phillipsburg and other neighboring communities along the Delaware River. The district is one of 31 former Abbott districts statewide that were established pursuant to the decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court in Abbott v. Burke which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the supervision of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority.

Easton Area High School is a four-year public high school located in Easton, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley area of eastern Pennsylvania. It is part of the Easton Area School District.

The 2005 USC vs. Notre Dame football game was a regular season game that took place on October 15, 2005 at Notre Dame Stadium. The game between perennial rivals USC and Notre Dame was played for the Jeweled Shillelagh. The game was preceded by much pre-game hype, including a visit by College GameDay. In what became known as the "Bush Push", the game ended with Reggie Bush pushed quarterback Matt Leinart into the end zone for the winning touchdown. His push was illegal assistance under the laws of the game but it was not called a foul by the officials.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">USC Trojans</span> Intercollegiate sports teams of the University of Southern California

The USC Trojans are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. While the men's teams are nicknamed the Trojans, the women's athletic teams are referred to as either the Trojans or Women of Troy. The program participates in the Pac-12 Conference and has won 136 team national championships, 112 of which are National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships. USC's official colors are cardinal and gold. The Trojans have a cross-town rivalry in several sports with UCLA. However, USC's football rivalry with Notre Dame predates the UCLA rivalry by three years. The Notre Dame rivalry stems mainly from the annual football game played between these two universities and is considered the greatest intersectional rivalry in college football. The Trojans also enjoy a rivalry with the Stanford Cardinal. The USC Trojans are considered one of the most successful college athletic programs of all time.

Northwestern High School is one of three high schools in Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States. It was opened in 1971 as the city's second high school, replacing Emmett Scott High School, which had been designated for African American students during the era of segregated schools. Along with rival Rock Hill High School, it is one of the 16 largest schools in the state by enrollment, with about 1,791 students in grades 9–12.

The Lehigh Valley Interscholastic Athletic Conference, known informally as the Lehigh Valley Conference or LVC, was an athletic conference consisting of 12 of the largest high schools from Lehigh and Northampton counties in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. It was part of District XI of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA). In 2014, its teams were mostly assimilated into the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, an even larger 18-team league of the largest high schools in the Lehigh Valley and Pocono Mountains regions of eastern and northeastern Pennsylvania.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">UCLA–USC rivalry</span> American collegiate athletics rivalry

The UCLA–USC rivalry is the American collegiate athletics rivalry between the UCLA Bruins sports teams of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and USC Trojans teams of the University of Southern California (USC).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Notre Dame–USC football rivalry</span> American college football rivalry

The Notre Dame–USC football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team of the University of Notre Dame and USC Trojans football team of the University of Southern California, customarily played on the Saturday following Thanksgiving Day when the game is in Los Angeles or on the second or third Saturday of October when the game is in South Bend, Indiana.

Trinity College Dublin American Football is the American Football team of Trinity College Dublin.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Troy Trojans</span>

The Troy Trojans are the sports teams of Troy University. They began playing in the NCAA's Division I-A in 2001, became a football only member of the Sun Belt Conference in 2004, and joined that conference for all other sports in 2005. Troy University's athletics nickname was the Red Wave until the early 1970s when the student body voted to change the name to Trojans.

Caleb Williams is an American football quarterback for the USC Trojans. Williams played for the Oklahoma Sooners in 2021, before transferring to USC as a sophomore in 2022, where he won several player of the year awards, including the Heisman Trophy, after throwing for 4,537 yards with a school-record 52 total touchdowns; 42 passing and 10 rushing.

References

  1. 1 2 "High School Football a Tradition on Thanksgiving Day", November 24, 2009
  2. 1 2 "Gatorade REPLAY pits fierce rivals again" Archived August 2, 2009, at the Wayback Machine , April 13, 2009
  3. ↑ "'Sister-kissing' gridiron rivals to settle 1993 score", April 25, 2009
  4. ↑ "Phillipsburg, Easton add to storied football rivalry: Videos, photos and more from Thanksgiving 1993 rematch", April 26, 2009
  5. ↑ "Replay participants get advice from Philadelphia Eagles' Andy Reid and Brian Westbrook", April 9, 2009
  6. ↑ "Phillipsburg '93 replay game will be played at Lafayette, report says", March 27, 2009
  7. ↑ "Phillipsburg beats Easton in Gatorade Replay football", April 29, 2009
  8. ↑ Gatorade Announces Season Two of Replay, Bleacher Report, February 27, 2010.
  9. ↑ Gatorade Replay provides redemption closure for Trenton and Catholic Central Archived May 23, 2010, at archive.today , Motown Wings, May 13, 2010.
  10. ↑ HOCKEY: Eleven years later, Trenton tops Catholic Central (with video), The News-Herald, May 12, 2010.
  11. ↑ "10 years later, Rice, Bloom to replay super tilt", YourSeason.com, June 28, 2010.
  12. ↑ "Gatorade REPLAY Rekindles Glory Days for Crusaders and Trojans", Bleacher Report, September 12, 2010.
  13. ↑ "Gatorade Replay – ‘We Can Do It Now’ Feat. Common, Lupe Fiasco, Jennifer Hudson & No I.D.", Sneaker News, October 31, 2010
  14. ↑ "Rivalries Never Die: FSN To Air Online Gatorade Series "Replay"", November 18, 2009
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.