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Coach football, eat football, think football, breath football, live football.

This is Coach Paul Thomas.

Play football, eat football, think football, breath football, live football.

This is Quarterback Paul Wayne Thomas.

But they are not the same person: lives devoted to football, separated by 25 years, but as father and son they couldn't be more contemporary.

This is Paul Thomas, coach of the Owls High School Football Team, and his son Paul Wayne Thomas, quarterback of the Owls High School Football Team in Marshall, MO.

Most of their life is spent between the locker room, the coach office, and the battlefield: battles shared in every second they breath and every beat of their heart.

The blood joins their genes, joins their lives, joins their passion: it melts in the love for football, for competition, for winning.

Son and father, father and son: shared hopes and a single dream.