What Jane Doe & Cornell 7 Said Happened That Night- All The Inconsistencies
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What Jane Doe & Cornell 7 Said Happened That Night- All The Inconsistencies

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 19, 202646 min
  • Crime & justice

Senior Night at a high school football game is a very big deal. It’s kind of like the Oscars and a State of the Union coming together for one night. There are tears, balloon arches, and slow-motion football videos, with a coach trying his best to sound like Morgan Freeman. But at Timberline High School in Boise, Idaho, the spotlight has shifted from football to protests, police involvement, and student walkouts. Homecoming festivities, including the game, were canceled after a Snapchat group chat allegedly involving football players went viral. The mess...

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senior night at a high school football game. it's a very big ordeal. it's kind of like the Oscars and a state of the union address coming together for one singular night. it's like a ceremony for the senior members of the high school football team, cheerleading team and the marching band. so all the graduating seniors are walking down the field, usually

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guided by a parent, where the crowd is chanting. everybody's crying because this is the last regular home game of the season. There's usually some sort of giant balloon arch that the football players and their parents have to walk through as some sort of threshold, okay now you're gonna be a college student. I don't know, but I

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do know that all of it is most likely going to be recorded and later edited by another student probably chugging one too many Monster Energy drinks and it's just like slow-mo's of the players getting ready in the locker room with the voiceover from the coach as he tries his very best Morgan Freeman impersonation.

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