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The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown
Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to
coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing
streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San
Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school
teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped
everything--including the plum NFL job he had been working towards
since childhood--leading him to a position as football coach at a
struggling high school back in his hometown. At the time, Parkrose
High School was in the middle of a 23-game losing streak--they were
the ultimate underdogs. In many ways, the road to Parkrose was
paved by Keanon's life-defining experiences--from a childhood spent
dodging racist bullies and finding the support and mentorship he
craved on the football team, to an NFL season where he worked
closely with Colin Kaepernick as he evolved his sideline protest.
Keanon was drawn to the young men on the Parkrose team, and to the
school itself. After two years, he pushed them to become conference
champions, mentoring countless players along the way. But still,
there was that nagging sense that his calling wasn't meant to stop
there. He was at that school for a reason. In May 2019, he got his
answer when a 19-year-old student entered a Parkrose classroom with
a trench coat and shotgun. Keanon disarmed him and pulled the boy
into a hug, telling him he cared. In the boy, Keanon saw himself,
and the young men he grew up with or mentored along the way--and
weren't so many of them just looking for acceptance, for comfort,
for love? With the heart of favorite football classics--The
Blindside, Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans--Keanon's
journey at Parkrose is the true account of a life spent striving
forward, even when faced with the unimaginable. Hometown Victory is
a story about gratitude, service, and most of all, hope.
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