Play Calls Become Unique Language For High School Football Coaches

Omaha. Omaha.
Peyton Manning made that phrase popular during his play-calling days as the Broncos quarterback.
No doubt some high school teams picked up on it.
Coaches are always coming up with crazy names and combos to form their own unique, play-calling language.
Said East Ridge coach Tim James-“Football coaches being the mental giants that we are. We have our own jargon.”
Like-“X-reverse. Y. Go. Z Comeback,” said Red Bank coach Chad Grabowski.
Said James-“Redbuck right criss-cross at five.”
Said Howard coach John Starr-“Jet red 51 curl.”
Said Notre Dame coach Charles Fant-“Right 21. Gun left. Trey. Slide. Big Pop. I’m sorry True Pop. Big Gorilla. Little fish. How ’bout that. That’s one play.”
Reporter-“Where do coaches go to learn all this verbiage, which is pretty unique.”
Said Starr-“Boy, it has been about 25 years ago. I went to the University of Delaware. I would make that trip ever year and study with those guys. Just kind of picked it up from them.”
Said Fant-“The whole Gruden Quarterback Camp. I’m constantly listening to those guys. I’m writing down what they are saying. The Y-bananas play. The tight end. I so called that like two years ago. It was great.”
Said CCS head coach Mark Mariakis-“A lot of our names our play names are states, college teams, and opponent names.”
Said James-“The offensive linemen will have some fun with their calls. Lot of food calls from the linemen.”
Said Fant-“The guys up-front, people give the line the wrong deal. They’re brilliant. It was like girls names that they knew. It’s always something, and the kids enjoy it. When they’re in there, and they call it. They’re the ones who created it. Sometimes they actually block it harder.”
Said Signal Mountain coach Ty Wise-“I’m not really looking for new names. I’m just looking to improve on the ones that we have been using.”