Tennessee-Georgia High School All Star Football Game Gets Different Look

Chattanooga-(WDEF) Central coach Cortney Braswell has the distinction of being the first person to play in the local Tennessee-Georgia All Star football game, and now serve as a head coach in the All-Star contest. But the game will have a different look when Braswell patrols the sidelines Saturday night at seven at Chattanooga Christian.
A new format dawns in the Tennessee-Georgia All-Star game. The teams will no longer be divided by state, since the number of players from Georgia this year was a bit lower.
Said Braswell:”Well basically what we did, we wanted to get the best kids we could find pretty much in a 40-mile radius that were willing to play and wanted to play football. We literally split them up into teams. We split the coaching staff in half, and everybody picked their best guys.”
Since the coaches basically drafted the two teams, they had to do their homework.
Said Notre Dame coach Charles Fant:”Got all of these great coaches around. I don’t know as many of the players as some of them did. So I’m thinking. I feel like they’re trying to get one over on me. I don’t know. Thank goodness I had a couple of my other coaches, who were like coach, they’re trying to steal one. Yeah. As long as there is no blood, we’re okay.”
Notre Dame’s Charles Fant will coach one team called ‘Team Fant-tastic’, while Meigs County’s Jason Fitzgerald will coach the ‘Fighting Fitzgeralds’.
Central’s Cortney Braswell acting sort of like the commissioner.
Said Braswell:”The benefit for me is no matter what happens, I can still go home with the big trophy. It’s rigged for me.”
Reporter:”What are you going to do then during the game?”
Laughs Braswell:”I’m going to walk around like Coach Saban in a gray suit I think. Just walk around in a shirt and tie. Sweat. Shake hands and kiss babies. I think that’s pretty much my thing. Decide whether we are going to go for it on fourth down.”
Kind of strange since both teams are practicing on opposite ends of the same field.
Said Baylor receiver Emanual Williams:”I mean I still think it’s a great thing getting out here and playing football. Doing what we all love, so I think it’s a wonderful thing. I’m excited to do it.”
Said North Murray linebacker Aidan Noe:”I still think it’s a great thing we are doing out here. They are just trying to get a bunch of guys out here to play some football. All of us are seniors. We all lost our last game, so we just want a second chance out here.”