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'I done wet my britches': The story of the greatest high school football game ever played

Terence Green was enjoying a drink at a bar in the Dallas suburbs not long ago when a friend in Houston texted to tell him he was on TV.

At first, Green was puzzled. Then he glanced up at one of the TVs above the bar.

“Sure enough, the game was on,” Green said. “All these years later, they still replay it.”

Green starred in maybe the most famous high school football game ever played, the amazing, preposterous, soul-crushing 1994 Texas playoff game between John Tyler and Plano East. What other high school game made SportsCenter for three straight nights?