AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - The FFC Lions are the newest football team in the Texas Panhandle, bridging the gap between homeschool students and private and charter school students without a football team.

“If we fail together, we fail together, but if we win together, we win together,” sophomore quarterback Daniel Jackson said.

Their bond is already growing.

“If we’re out there protecting each other, watching each other’s backs, like brothers, we’ll definitely be able to play any team,” senior wide receiver Coleman Phipps said.

They’re led by head coach Brian Pantoja, who returned to the coaching profession after years away to build this program from the ground up.

“Passion is an understatement,” Pantoja said. “The draw was that these kids just genuinely wanted to play. What we’re trying

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