Episode 70 is officially the longest episode in 4th & Ward history—and somehow we still had more to talk about.

Adam and Jack are back in the football grind as the school year gets underway, scrimmages begin, and coaches attempt to survive the first week back. Jack shares the story of getting caught in a Forrest Gump-level rainstorm during a scrimmage, riding home soaking wet on the activity bus, and eventually passing out on the couch with his contacts still in.

The guys also discuss what happens when you're coaching in your 30s—including recovery shoes, sore feet, getting older, and realizing that some of the conversations you're having with teenagers are getting progressively harder to understand.

Then things take a turn when they start talking about some of the simplest things high school athletes somehow struggle with. Helmet straps get threaded through the wrong holes, Guardian Caps become a puzzle, and one student in Jack's athletic leadership class somehow turns “pylon” into “pylines.”

And that's before they discover a student who apparently needs the alphabet taught during football class.

Other topics include:

• 🏈 A Mexican high school football powerhouse traveling 15 hours a week to play games in Texas—and a potential 30-for-30 documentary.
• 💰 Akron letting a fan script the opening offensive drive as part of a season-ticket promotion.
• 🎮 The guys imagining what happens when a fan thinks college football works like Madden.
• 🧠 The latest football equipment craze and whether colleges are simply buying expensive equipment because they have the money to burn.
• 👕 A massive international edition of Drip or Drown, featuring schools from Texas, Kentucky, New York, Canada, Mexico and beyond.
• 🇲🇽 Prepa Tec Borregos and their wild football history in Mexico.
• 🇨🇦 Canadian uniforms that give Adam and Jack some serious Ricky Bobby / NASCAR / Pee-Wee football vibes.
• 🗣️ Why Kentucky and New York might officially be done with 4th & Ward after another brutal round of uniform ratings.
• 🏟️ A special Team of the Week deep dive on D'Iberville High School and the story of their team manager scoring two touchdowns in a JV game.

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