Minutes later, it is time. Porter returns and leads the team in a locker room prayer. As they snake their way outside, they knock on four signs placed on the locker room walls along the way. Another, a wooden board painted green and white with two Bs, a state of Texas and a helmet, travels with the team wherever it goes. It is offense on one side, defense on the other.
Players sit on the benches in front of their lockers.
Some sit in their lockers. Others bang on the wall, hang their heads, console each other. But soon enough, they all listen. It's totally different. I can't picture anyone thinking that it's quiet.