’27 multiphase contributor found another way to contribute to the team
Jack Long is a ’27, undersized kid with a nose for the football and a penchant for making plays. Long is an excellent open field tackler who noticed something very important one night while the team was scrimmaging. There was something wrong with Coach Myers’s color. Coach Myers was having a health crisis. Jack sprung into action. Jack made sure the other coaches and teammates were aware Kelly Myers needed some help. Jack, according to Coach Myers, may have saved a life, his life. We forget sometimes football can be bigger than tackles, bigger than touchdowns. Long was right there to insure we never, ever forget. Thanks Jack…from all of us!
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”
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Hopkinsville, KY: One definition of the word “Hero” may be particularly apropos to the present feature. “Hero” may be defined as a “person admired for achievements and noble qualities; one who shows great courage.”
Jack Long, ’27 Rover/Slot for Christian County High (6A, District 1), has had to show courage. Long would know courage when seeing it. It numbers among his many noble qualities.
Long showed courage when he came back from being nearly killed getting run over by a snack truck when living in Jackson, KY. Long has shown great courage in stepping up and helping his parents care for his elderly grandparents. Long has shown great courage in helping his grandfather, fresh off major surgery, relearn how to get around the house and perform what amounts to basic human bodily function.
Suffice it to say, Jack Long recognizes a person in distress when seeing one. Long’s certainly been there and done that. Kelly Myers would thank the Lord for that also.
On July 28, 2025, at Christian County’s practice, Coach Kelly Myers, a key addition to the Colonel coaching staff this offseason (Offensive and Defensive Lines of Scrimmage), had recently had quite a few teeth extracted. We will leave the number at “quite a few.”
Myers was just soldiering through practice, trying (and praying) to make it to the end. Eating had been an issue. Getting down enough calories through what was intolerable pain was a difficult to near impossible problem.
The Colonels were working on inside run when Myers blood sugar tanked. In and amongst the commotion of practice, and focusing on the drill, Myers heard a familiar voice. It was Jack Long.
“There is something wrong with Coach Myers,” Jack cried out at the practice. Myers was seizing up, was confused, and hadn’t yet lost consciousness but appeared headed in that direction.
Myers couldn’t talk. Myers’s degree of consciousness was slipping. The situation was steadily descending into the danger zone.
There is something wrong with Coach Myers…
James Nicholas Whaley (Jack Whaley) Long, ’27
Seizures and heat related stress can cause strokes and can be fatal. Thanks to early detection from a kid quarterbacking the scout team offense in an ongoing drill, a bad situation might have narrowly missed turning out much, much worse.
Myers told KPGFooball, “I was struggling and trying to let Coach (Dereck) Ford know I needed a chair; but, I just couldn’t get the words out. While I couldn’t speak, I could distinctly hear Jack telling other coaches that I didn’t look good. That I needed help. He couldn’t have been any more right.”
Myers continued “I could hear Jack’s voice. I could hear what he was observing. It was impressive that Jack [Long], at practice and running the scout team, was able to see my colorization and recognize I was in serious trouble.”
Myers concluded “[Jack Long] is a remarkable kid to pick up on that while practicing. Thank God for it. Thank God for him. Jack [Long] might have saved my life.”
We have one more thanksgiving for the Big Man Upstairs. Thank God Jack Long got cleared to play and returned to the team and participate in the practice on July 28, 2025.
Thank God Long was even there. Thank God Long was granted the wisdom to figure out Myers’s situation when he did. Thank God Long felt compelled to tell the other coaches.
You know sometimes there is more to football than just making football plays. Sometimes the plays you make off the field are as or even more important than the ones you make on Friday Night. Certainly this happened to be the case in this particular instance.
Join us next week as we return to honor another weekly prize winner. Until then, pop some Mingua Beef Jerky in your mouth and savor the quality and flavor which sets it apart from the competition. Remember, our product is superior and one of a kind; just like Christian County’s Jack Whaley Long.
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