Undefeated East Paulding Raiders named team of the week

Welcome back, 839. It's your time. The East Paulding Raiders made a statement last Friday night. They won their final regular season game to finish a perfect season, 56-0 against South Cobb. So spectacular, and they're hoping to keep that momentum going in the playoffs as they prepare to take on Loganville at home tomorrow night. And good days. Paul Millican is live in Dallas, GA, this morning, getting picked on by high school students again. Hey, turn around. Do you have a kick me sign on your back? It looks like you took a pie out of the face. Takes me right back. Not yet, but I probably will. It takes me right back to high school. By the way, Tim Whaley just said, Paul, you look like you're on the losing end of Braveheart right now, and I feel like that's appropriate. But you know what? I'll take it because I'm here with the Raiders. To be at East Paulding High School this morning, and the celebration has just begun, but you know, no celebration really begins without your cheerleaders who are competing at state tomorrow. Ladies, take it away. You do it right there, and by the way, I want you all to know they are taking tomorrow's game seriously. Look up right now at that screen. You're going to see an image. Oh, there it is. The Loganville Red Devils going down in that image. Gentlemen, how are you feeling right now? You're tanning it, Raiders. This is the first time since 2012 they've had a perfect 10-0 season. You feeling good about tomorrow night, gentlemen? That's what I thought. I think the entire community is. Brad Thomason is the principal here. It is so good to see you. How does it feel to be team of the week? We're excited, very excited this year. We've had a great year, great first semester with all of our programs, and just very excited for our students this year. Yeah, well, this is certainly a school where there's excellence across the board. Every one of your teams academically, how important is excellence in and out of the classroom here? It's very important, and we take it serious across the board. Our graduation rate went up this year as well, so not only are we excelling on the fields and in the gyms and stuff, we're also excelling in the classroom, so we're very excited. Yeah, I'd love to hear that. What does it mean when you've got a team doing this well? Do you feel it throughout the school? You do. I've always said that the football season kind of determines your school year inside the building. So, you know, even your discipline and stuff. When you have great football seasons, usually your discipline's down and all the students are excited and the spirit's up. And so we enjoy it. Well, you say the discipline's down, but I have a gentleman over here who definitely needs to be disciplined for making me a part of the paint crew. Can I hand out the punishment? Absolutely. Thank you very much, Paul Miller. You can take it over this school right now. Paint crew, how you feeling? Right here. And wait, you guys are going to love this. So the paint crew tried to pull a Paul Millican and said, look, we're getting painted up early. Do we get to go home from school early to take showers? And I said, no. You got running water at the school. Keep going. Let's hear it. The excitement, it feels good here. And, of course, your Raider Brigade, everybody. Give it up for your Raider Brigade, who are winning over and over this season. They are grand champions. Raider Brigade, let's hear it. Race up. Just one more ******* minute. . . Paul, . . . . . . . . . . can . . . . . . . . you . . . . . . . . hear . me? You should have a little bit of this. You kept your shirt on unlike those other boys, and I am right now. Hey. Hey, one more thing, Paul. Can you run back down by the football team? I have a question for you. You got it. Wait, come on down. All right, we're still live on TV, but our anchors want us to come back down. I want number 77 to walk down on the floor, 77, and stand next to you. Thank you. I want him to stand next to you. Right here, right here, right here. Now, look, they kind of make fun of me for being short a little bit. This is not fair. Somebody give me an apple crate right now. This is not fair. All right, here, just rest your arm right on top of me. We need his stats, size and weight. All right, now Sal's done. Let's get his stats, size and weight. Yeah. Size and weight? 6'8", 335. Similar to me. Very same thing almost. Very similar. All right, get back up there. That's crazy. I couldn't resist that image. You're not even out of high school now. Could not resist that image. All right. Good stuff. Thank you, Paul. Hopefully you'll stay with us. It's about 845, and we still have lots to cover here on Good Day Atlanta.