REPLAY the Series
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REPLAY is a program created by Gatorade
Gatorade
Gatorade is a brand of sports-themed food and beverage products, built around its signature product: a line of sports drinks. Gatorade is currently manufactured by PepsiCo, distributed in over 80 countries...

 that restages classic games of various sports between the biggest high school rivalries in the United States. The first official REPLAY game reunited players from the 1993 Easton
Easton, Pennsylvania
Easton is a city in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 26,800 as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Northampton County....

 Area Red Rovers and the Phillipsburg
Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Phillipsburg, known locally as P'burg, is a town in Warren County, New Jersey, in the United States. As of 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 14,950....

 Stateliners to replay a 1993 game that ended in a tie. On April 26, 2009, the Stateliners won the rematch with a 27-12 win.

First Official REPLAY the Series Game: Easton & Phillipsburg Rivalry

Separated by the Delaware River
Delaware River
The Delaware River is a major river on the Atlantic coast of the United States.A Dutch expedition led by Henry Hudson in 1609 first mapped the river. The river was christened the South River in the New Netherland colony that followed, in contrast to the North River, as the Hudson River was then...

, Easton, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

 and Phillipsburg, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

 have had a deep rooted history in football rivalry since 1906. Since then, every Thanksgiving the teams reunite for the rights to the “Fork of the Delaware” trophy.

In 1993, the two teams played a hard fought game that ended in a 7-7 tie. At the time of the REPLAY game, Easton led the series with a record of 57-40-5.

Easton & Phillipsburg Training

Gatorade launched REPLAY in January 2009, bringing together 60 members of the Phillipsburg and Easton teams involved in their 1993 game. The returning players, then 16 years older, came together in a weekend training camp at each school. During this time they began training and practices as well as met with experts from The Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI). Teams also received training from Eagles
Philadelphia Eagles
The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

 head coach Andy Reid
Andy Reid
Andrew Walter "Andy" Reid is the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL, a post he has held since 1999. Since 2001, he has also been the team's executive vice president of football operations...

 and all-pro running back, Brian Westbrook
Brian Westbrook
Brian Collins Westbrook is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft after playing college football at Villanova...

 at the Eagles’ training facility.

Easton & Phillipsburg Game Day

The 104th meeting of the two schools took place at Lafayette College’s
Lafayette College
Lafayette College is a private coeducational liberal arts and engineering college located in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. The school, founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter,son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown and citizens of Easton, first began holding classes in 1832...

 Fisher Field on April 26, 2009. Led by honorary coaches, Gatorade athletes and NFL quarterbacks, Peyton and Eli Manning, the teams played in unseasonably warm 90 degree weather in front of 15,000 fans. The Phillipsburg Stateliners broke the 16-year long deadlock, winning 27-12 over the Easton Red Rovers.

Gatorade REPLAY, Season Two: Trenton & Detroit Catholic Central Rivalry

In February 2010, Michigan high school hockey powerhouses and rivals - Detroit Catholic Central Shamrocks
Detroit Catholic Central High School
Detroit Catholic Central High School is a private, Catholic, all-male, college preparatory high school in Novi, Michigan. Founded in 1928 in Detroit, Michigan by the Archdiocese of Detroit, the school is operated by the Congregation of St. Basil...

 and the Trenton Trojans
Trenton High School (Michigan)
Trenton High School is a public high school in Trenton, Michigan, one of four schools in the Trenton Public School District. The school serves the city of Trenton and is a magnet school for special education students, specifically for those with hearing disabilities, from across...

 - were announced as the participants in Gatorade REPLAY, season two. The rematch brought together the 1999 teams to replay their game that ended in a 4-4 tie due to a severe injury to one of Trenton’s players.

Trenton & Catholic Central Training

Like REPLAY, Season One, the teams were reunited for eight weeks of comprehensive training and nutrition programming developed in partnership with the Gatorade Sports Science Institute and implemented by experts from Velocity Sports Performance – Canton, Mich. Also reunited were original members of each team’s coaching staffs to help prepare for the full-check, regulation length game.

Trenton & Catholic Central Game Day

The Trenton Trojans and Catholic Central Shamrocks met 11 years later on May 9, 2010 to replay the game at the Compuware Arena in Plymouth
Plymouth
Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...

, Mich. Mr. Hockey, Gordie Howe
Gordie Howe
Gordon "Gordie" Howe, OC is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player who played for the Detroit Red Wings and Hartford Whalers of the National Hockey League , and the Houston Aeros and New England Whalers in the World Hockey Association . Howe is often referred to as Mr...

, served as the REPLAY Season 2 game day commissioner while Brendan Shanahan
Brendan Shanahan
Brendan Frederick "Shanny" Shanahan is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey winger who currently serves as the National Hockey League's Vice President of Hockey and Business Development and head disciplinarian. Originally drafted by the New Jersey Devils second overall in the 1987 NHL Entry...

 and Scotty Bowman
Scotty Bowman
William Scott "Scotty" Bowman is a retired National Hockey League head coach. He holds the record for most wins in league history, with 1,244 wins in the regular season and 223 in the Stanley Cup playoffs. He coached the St. Louis Blues, Montreal Canadiens, Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins, and...

 served as honorary coaches. The Trojans defeated the Shamrocks 4-2, bringing closure to the 1999 game between the two teams.

Gatorade REPLAY, Season Three: Bloom & Brother Rice Rivalry

In June 2010, REPLAY Season Three was announced and will feature two South Side Chicago basketball squads as the newest teams to take part in the award winning program. Bloom and Brother Rice will reunite to settle the score of their 2000 super sectional game in which Bloom won 42-40 despite a controversial ending involving the game clock. The game is tentatively scheduled to take place in early September.

Bloom Township & Brother Rice Game Day

The original alumni from the Bloom Township and Brother Rice 2000 boys' basketball teams reunited on September 10, 2010 at St. Xavier University’s Shannon Center in Chicago, Illinois. The teams were joined by NBA all-stars Dwyane Wade
Dwyane Wade
Dwyane Tyrone Wade, Jr. nicknamed Flash or D-Wade, is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat. Awarded 2006 Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated, Wade has established himself as one of the most well-known and popular players in the league...

 who served as Bloom's honorary coach and Dwight Howard
Dwight Howard
Dwight David Howard is an American basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association . Howard, who usually plays center but can also play power forward, had an outstanding high school career at Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy...

 as Brother Rice's coach. Carlos Boozer
Carlos Boozer
Carlos Austin Boozer, Jr. is an American professional basketball player with the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association...

 also made an appearance as the official REPLAY game day commissioner. The score was settled once and for all as Brother Rice defeated Bloom by a score of 99-93, more than doubling the original score of the 2000 game.

'We Can Do It Now' Original Song Inspired by REPLAY Season 3

Chicago natives Common, Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Kate Hudson is an American recording artist, actress and spokesperson. She came to prominence in 2004 as one of the finalists on the third season of American Idol coming in seventh place...

, Lupe Fiasco
Lupe Fiasco
Wasalu Muhammad Jaco , better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco , is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur, Lupe is the CEO of 1st and 15th Entertainment. He rose to fame in 2006 following the success of his critically acclaimed debut album, Lupe Fiasco's Food...

 and No I.D. joined forces to create the song "We Can Do It Now" inspired by Season 3 of REPLAY which was featured in the documentary which premiered on FOX Sports Net on November 7, 2010.

Fox Sports Net

In 2009, Fox Sports Net
Fox Sports Net
The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...

(FSN) partnered with Gatorade to telecast REPLAY, which originated as a series of online web episodes. Seasons 2 and 3 aired nationally on FSN.
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