MDHigh.com - City, Poly QBs: More friends than foes

November 6, 2009

Special to MDHigh

Katherine Dunn
Baltimore sun

For about three hours a year, Adrian Coxson and Antoine Goodson have to think of each other as rivals, not friends.

As the quarterbacks for the City and Poly football teams, they line up on opposite sides of the area's longest-running rivalry, an intense annual encounter that draws thousands of raucous, partisan fans to M&T Bank Stadium. When they square off at noon Saturday in the 121st meeting of their programs, the seniors won't let friendship get in the way of the game. They won't let the game get in the way of their friendship either.

Fittingly, City's Coxson met Poly's Goodson met at a football camp at Poly. Friends since the ninth grade, they have never had a problem keeping the big game in perspective.

"I don't know how to explain how it works," Goodson said. "We're friends and we understand that while we're on the field. We both try to win the game because it's a big game. We understand that we both want to win, but even when you lose, after the game, you congratulate each other, say, 'Good game," and say, 'I'll see you later at the Victory Dance.'"

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