LIMON — When the author of the current chapter of a century-long dynasty was looking for his calling in life, tradition walked into the coffee shop and told him what to do.

It was 1985. A young Mike O’Dwyer, Limon’s head football coach for the last 24 seasons, had graduated from the high school five years prior before going on to play at Northern Colorado. That mid-August day, he was drinking coffee in the eastern Colorado town with his brother Bart. The two had just bought their father’s construction company.

But little did O’Dwyer know that in that moment, he would be directed to his true purpose in life.

“The (longtime) superintendent walks into the coffee shop, and he says, ‘Well, what’s going on?’ I go, ‘Not too much,'” Mike O’Dwyer recalled. “And he says, ‘Well, just so you know

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