ARLINGTON, Texas — Editor's note: The video published above is a WFAA story about the Gordon football team that aired before the championship game.
The 2023 Gordon Longhorns football team accomplished a feat that hasn't been done in this small town since some of their fathers did it more than 20 years ago: They went out and won state.
And they did it in a big way, too.
The Longhorns beat the back-to-back defending 1A Six-Man Division 1 state champions, Westbrook Wildcats, 70-20 on Wednesday at AT&T Stadium.
They didn't even need the whole game to get the job done, either: Citing the mercy rule, refs called the game once the Longhorns took at 50-point lead in the third quarter.
According to six-man football rules, a game is automatically ended when a team holds a lead of at least 45 points over its opponent in the second half of a game.
That's familiar territory for Gordon this year, as all of the team's wins in its undefeated season also came via the mercy rule.
The Longhorns' defense has been stout has been stout all throughout the team's dominant 2023 campaign, posting five shutouts and only once allowing an opponent to score more than 16 points.
Gordon, which lies just over an hour outside of Fort Worth, proudly keeps signs in town celebrating its school's state championships from 1996 and 1999.
Players from those teams now have sons on the 2023 championship roster. WFAA spoke this week with some players from the late '90s team, who now have sons on this year's squad:
Seems Gordon is due for a new sign celebrating its state champs – this one 24 years in the making.
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