Nick Streubel (Sharon Edwards photos)
You can say it. Awwwww…
The Big Hurt and Coach V hug it out.
We are at war.
It is a war fought for every small town, for every speck on the map, for every under-appreciated, overlooked, easily-dismissed football program clawing for a bit of respect.
We beat the big city boys one time before. We will do it again.
Wolf Nation, and all of its supporters, whether they are Wildcats or Falcons or go by any of a million other names, do not bow down to superior numbers. Not now, not ever.
Marysville came for us, with a population of 62,402 and we blistered their fannies until they crawled away.
Why should a town of 1,865 people be worried by Lakewood, which has about 4,000 less people in their city limits than Marysville?
This battle, which, on the surface, is a fight to honor Coupeville High School senior lineman Nick Streubel as the Everett Herald Defensive Player of the Year, is about more.
Streubel, AKA The Big Hurt, AKA the guy who bear-hugs his mom Nanette after every game, has been shafted for two years running by a decision that made CHS football players unable to be considered for All-League honors when Cascade Conference coaches voted.
So, unlike Lakewood’s Jeff Harrison — a very good player who will have to accept second place — Streubel needs this. Coupeville needs this.
The Big Hurt battled through injury, through triple-teaming, chop-blocking opponents, and dominated in a way few players do. He changed the flow of games. He made coaches design entirely new game plans.
If you vote for Nick, if you spread the word and the link, if you fuel fires for him from Atlanta to Belgium, if Whidbey (North, South and Central) come together as one to lift him to this win, it will be justice. It will be right.
Let Mr. Rockne play us out…
Well, boys … I haven’t a thing to say. Played a great game … all of you. Great game.
I guess we just can’t expect to win ‘em all.
But sometime, when the team is up against it — and the breaks are beating the boys — tell them to go out there with all they got and win just one for The Big Hurt…
I don’t know where I’ll be then, but I’ll know about it, and I’ll be happy.
At my signal, unleash Hell:
Coupeville Sports 
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