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Flores is 6’3,” 335-pounds with a 3.0 GPA and has proven he can play at a high level

"Even though you can't see us, we're always watching."
AL (Christopher Lloyd), Angels in the Outfield, 1994

There is quite a bit of transience in today’s football world. With the transfer portal and NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) contracts, there are more nomads at the college level than in the high school level; but, a good bit of “moving around” occurs even between member schools competing in the KHSAA. There are lots of reasons families move totally unrelated to sports. People find better jobs; sometimes employees get transferred; some schools have curriculum tailor made for what a student wants to do, one day, professionally; and some of these kids have parents or grandparents who need considerable care. The list goes onward, even further, ad infinitum. We don’t know what made the Flores family move from Somerset, up US-275, the 32 or so miles which stretches out between Somerset and Stanford, KY. We just know they did. Let’s glance together at what this transfer might mean to Lincoln.

HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”

Stanford, KY: Lincoln County appears to be where Flores, who played for Southwestern a year ago, will ply his wares as a senior this Fall. That is true if one is to believe the kid’s X-Account.

The player who is the subject of this piece carries the “Christian name” of Angel. Angel is a popular name, used for both boys and girls, meaning “messenger” or “messenger of God.”

The name has roots in Greek and Latin. Angel is often associated with positive qualities like kindness and purity.

The Greek form of the name is “Angelos,” means “messenger” or “heavenly messenger.” The Latin form of the name, “Angelus,” means “angel” or “messenger.”

To Lincoln County football fans, the name “Angel” means a member of the “Flores” family who is 6’3,” weighs 335-pounds with the leg kick and downfield charge of a runaway freight train. Here are his highlights, see for yourself.

I am not too sure why, but Angel Flores reminds me of the Disney movie from the mid-90s, entitled “Angels in the Outfield.” This particular theatrical release had two sequels “made for TV.”

The movie, “Angels in the Outfield,” was a remake of a 1951 film of the same name. The remake starred Danny Glover, Tony Danza, and Christopher Lloyd.

Loosely, the plot of the movie involved a young child (Roger) sent to live in foster care after the loss of his mother. Roger asked his recently widowed father just when the father thought the family might reunite and the father told Roger (sarcastically) “…when the Angels win the pennant.”

Roger, the movie’s protagonist prays for the California Angels to meet with success and a group of real angels, the heavenly type, started showing up and helping the team. Only a few people in the movie could see the Angels. Everyone could see they were helping.

At the end of the day, it was explained that while the angels in the outfield helped the team surge to the top of the division, these heavenly assistants could not help the team win a title or championship.

We don’t know who around Lincoln County has been praying for some hulking help along the offensive front; but, it appears the Patriots’s prayers have been answered. Angel Flores is a 6’3,” 335-pound OL transfer from Southwestern.

There doesn’t appear to be any heavenly imposed limitations on Flores’s assistance. Should he and his teammates have the gumption, this Angel might well help Lincoln County to a 4A, 7th-district crown.

Flores played in 10-games for Southwestern a year ago. The “Warriors” won seven (7) games and lost the regional title to a Cooper High squad which went to Lexington, though came up a bit short in the 5A title game.

To give one an idea about this kid’s movement, Flores had seven (7) tackles and a TFL in limited defensive run in ’24. Of course, that was 5A football.

Now Stanford, Kentucky is known as being a “county of firsts.” Lincoln County had the first brick house in the commonwealth, the first governor, and the first counter-clockwise circular racetrack.

One may add another first…Lincoln County maybe the first 4A football team to have an Angel, Flores’s size, to start along its offensive front this coming Fall. Should this work out the way we anticipate, Flores shouldn’t be the last such Angel. One would hope not anyway!

This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball and KPI Newspaper Group, reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!

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