| Welcome to Sheepshead Bay High School
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| A lot of us never been to this part of Brooklyn, I bet
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| In this neighborhood we got a lot of Jewish, Irish
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| And of course, Italian families that send their kids to school over here
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| In the last few years we’ve been getting more and more minority kids coming in
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| from all over the borough on the bus
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| When they get off that 44 bus they know they’re a long way from
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| Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Flatbush and other areas like that.
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| My name’s Fats by the way
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| I go to class sometimes if I’m in the mood, but usually I just hang out outside
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| with the crew, my closest friends, you know, mostly Italian tough guys.
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| We don’t take no shit off of nobody!
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| Any of these visitors get out of line, huh well, let’s just say baseball season
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| can come real early around here;
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| Around lunchtime…
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| — Yo, do you know where the football office is?
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| — Are you kidding me guy? |
| You don’t see here me doing this thing?
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| — My fault
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| — You interrupt me like that?
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| — Man, forget it. |
| I’ll ask somebody else
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| — Un-fucking-believable. |
| What are you, a freshman?
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| — Yeah, uh-huh
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| — Are you looking for what now?
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| — The football office
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| — The football office?! |
| What are you trying it out for the team?
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| — Yup; |
| you know it, I’m about to show this kids
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| — All right, all-all right. |
| You’re gonna go down those stairs over there
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| — Uh-huh
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| — That'll take you to the basement
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| — Ok
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| — At the bottom of the steps, you’re gonna make it a right and then a left,
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| and you just follow the smell
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| — All right, all right, cool man, thanks!
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| — No problem, no problem; |
| hey hey, where you from kid?
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| — Brownsville
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| — Brownsville, huh? |
| You’re a long way from home kid. |
| You know that right? |