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Long Live The King
After battling mouth cancer, John King returns to the sideline for his 23rd year as the Longview Lobos head coach with a new perspective on the community he's built.
John King has plopped into the front seat of Longview’s pregame bus ride exactly 293 times as the Lobos head coach. The Week 5 game against Rockwall last fall was the first time he ever filmed it.
When you’ve done something every Friday night for 26 years like King has, it becomes a ritual. Normally, he stares blankly out the window without seeing anything, instead envisioning what will happen when the bus stops — his Lobos file off, then knock the snot out of a team they’re tougher than. But tonight, he took his phone out and filmed his view, the Longview campus getting smaller as the bus rolled on with a police escort leading the Lobos off to war.
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