Something strange happened after the Calhoun (Texas) vs. Terry high school football game this past Thursday night. It appears that a coach from Calhoun puts something in his hand and then shakes the head referee’s hand. Calhoun beat Terry 43-20 to remain unbeaten at 7-0. It would be strange to think that it was money exchanged since Terry is now 2-5.
However, the conspiracy theorists out there might point to the 28-20 Calhoun lead at half and think the coach might’ve had a chat with the ref. Maybe it was a piece of paper with his phone number.
Texas High School football, smh pic.twitter.com/QwKtkXmE6T
— Atlanta Sports Guy (@Atlantasportguy) October 20, 2015
More ammunition for conspiracy theorists…a terrible start from Calhoun (@jimmyc_rocks)
Looks down like he realizes something was just put in his hand.
Update: It was a poker chip left by a high school band that practiced on the field Thursday morning, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Lamar Consolidated is adjacent to Traylor, where the Mustangs band practices every morning and uses poker chips to mark the field so the band members know where to go.
The chips were not picked up after band practice Thursday morning so they were still there when the football teams took the field that night.
Whitaker said Terry head coach Tim Teykl went to chat with him before the game, saw a poker chip and picked it up.
“He said, ‘Here, this is for good luck,’” Whitaker said.
They laughed about it, and Whitaker extended the joke to the post-game handshake by handing it to the referee.
“What you don’t see (on the video) is once we pass each other we look back at each other and we laugh about it,” Whitaker said.
