Texas high school football coach told players to hit official: ESPN

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An assistant Texas high school football coach ordered his players to blindside a football official during a game as payback for what the team perceived to be the official's use of racist language, TV sports network ESPN reported on Wednesday. In a letter detailing his interactions with the head coach after the game, John Jay High School's principal said the team's secondary coach, Mack Breed, admitted he "directed the students to make the referee pay for his racial comments and calls," according to evidence gathered by ESPN's "Outside the Lines." Officials from the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, which oversees the school, were not immediately available for comment. The official, Robert Watts, denies that he made any racially charged comments, his lawyer has said.

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