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Put Me In, Coach!

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Put Me In, Coach!	comment	The underdog competitor wins a competition, sparks a Miracle Rally for the team, or puts in the final score to help win a competition. This is Underdogs Never Lose, narrowed down to one person. Not to be confused with a request for the cheapest possible airline seats. A subset is Dark Horse Victory. If the underdog is especially incompetent, they're The Hopeless Replacement, and results vary. See also The Benchwarmer.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_1484a16e	comment	Literary, non-sports example: In Harry Potter and the Philospher's/Sorcerer's Stone, Gryffindor wins the House Cup because Neville scored the last ten points they needed to break the tie with Slytherin.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_18acb3a5	comment	Carlton Banks, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, basketball game (airballs the final shot of the game after, in a desperate need to be lauded as Will is on the court, he wrestles the ball away from his team's star player).
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_261c8d3f	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Put Me In, Coach! / int_261c8d3f	comment	Subverted in The Simpsons; in the final seconds of a peewee football game, the police come by to arrest the star quarterback, because he happens to be resident delinquent bully Nelson. Bart volunteers to be put in...to the back of a police car as Nelson scores a game winning touchdown.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_2a5cb601	comment	Somewhat inverted in the end of The Mighty Ducks, where one of the best players is knocked unconscious scoring the team's first point in the Big Game and doesn't play for the remainder of the match.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_313c5eb9	comment	Uncle Rico of Napoleon Dynamite wants to invoke this... through Time Travel. He's spent the last twenty-two years lamenting that his high coach left him on the bench, and wants to go back to 1982 for a second chance at the big game, thinking its victory will make him into a famous football player.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_468bebb0	comment	Is that Dinwiddie with an O?
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_660a8ba0	comment	Played with in Unseen Academicals, where during the Big Game between the Academicals and Ankh-Morpork United, Trev Likely doesn't want to be put in because he promised his old mum he wouldn't play football, despite the fact that the game is almost literally not his father's football (the brutal street sport that got his dad killed). He eventually caves in when the crowd (and his girlfriend) starts shouting for "Likely!", but proves terrible because he's used to kicking around an old tin can, and not an actual football. Fortunately, some quick thinking lets the Academicals exploit an old rule ("the ball shall be called the ball, if it has been played by at least three consecutive players") and win the game.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_6d936d9	comment	Tom Grossi Comedy depicts this from a fan's perspective in his 2021 Packers Fan Reaction in relation to Rasul Douglas (see below under Real Life).
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_6ef684b9	comment	The cute little rabbit in the Porky Pig cartoon "Porkys Building" (1937, Tashlin) wants to be put in to show what he can do as Porky races a bully adversary in construction of a building. Porky keeps saying no, but when he sees the bully using a rapid-fire brick-laying device, he gives in and sends in the rabbit. With his ears alone, the little bunny defeats the machine (which self-destructed after getting lodged in reverse) and finishes the building.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_73d7930f	comment	Played with in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in the episode "Take Me Out To The Holosuite". They substitute Rom in at the last minute after he got booted from the team for being unable to hit, catch, or throw the ball during practice, and he completely accidentally makes a bunt that lets Nog get the Niners' only run of the game, they still lose ten to one but the team still treats it as a triumph and celebrates afterward. The really cherry on top is that as the Niners celebrate their first run, Solok tries to get the attention of Odo (who is umpiring the game), and is ejected for touching the umpire, just as Sisko had been earlier in the game.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_892aa56a	comment	Zig-zagged in the Murdoch Mysteries basketball episode "It's a Wonderful Game". Harry Murdoch is shown as completely hopeless at basketball, but Murdoch and Dr Odgen first refuse to admit this, and then try to encourage him that he can always improve. When he finally gets a chance to explain himself he says he doesn't feel bad because he's not good at the game, but because he didn't really want to play in the first place, and Coach George agrees that he can just be the assistant coach. Nevertheless, when another player gets injured, he steps in rather than let them forfeit, and scores a winning basket when they're Down to the Last Play (although he's clear that this was a total fluke).
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_946f58c1	comment	Phil Deville, All Grown Up!, "The Big Score" (everyone loves his sister Lil since they've started winning games [to the point of Phil being totally ignored and Lil quitting the team in spite over that], but in a key game, she makes a charge for goal, and actually passes to Phil, and he actually scores the winner)
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_98b9912e	comment	In the Goofy short "Double Dribble" Merrithew, the shortest member of the Polytechnical University basketball team (and by shortest we mean he's knee-high to the rest of the team) keeps hoping to be called in to play, but the coach keeps calling to other players. By the last quarter, all the other alternates have been eliminated, and Merrithew is the only one left. He wins almost by accident when an opponent trips on his laces and falls through the floor, a board catapulting Merrithew, ball and all, through the hoop.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_9e63932d	comment	Ojamajo Doremi double dips: Perennially athletic Aiko asks the perennially brainy Hazuki to race her leg in a swim relay for her against the other room, since it turns out that swimming is something Aiko isn't good at (even after she's spent the last week or two practicing for the race). Hazuki takes the lead on the way out... and then the other room takes it back on the way in when Hazuki cramps.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_a183d57f	comment	Fry, Futurama, basketball game, "Time Keeps On Slipping". After one of the atomic supermen basketball players is killed, Fry volunteers to fill in for him. His team is 35 points ahead of the Harlem Globetrotters with two minutes left, but somehow ends up losing, 244-86. (The keyword being "somehow", since the overarching plot is that time keeps jerking ahead, leaving events in place but everyone with no memory of what happened.)
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_b2ac2311	comment	Charlie Brown is an avid baseball player, but he can't seem to do anything right, not even hold a 50 run lead with one out left when Peppermint Patty puts him in after he's sold some peanuts. (Once again, the keyword is "somehow": We cut from Patty getting hit by Charlie's 2nd pitch, to her waking up in bed and finding out from Marcie that Charlie Brown's losing streak is still intact.)
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_b3702492	comment	Rudy is an interesting example. The titular underdog begs to play in the big game so he can prove to his family that he's on the team. His never-give up attitude having been such an inspiration to the team, they go out of their way to get a large enough lead so that he can make the final play without any risk. And then Rudy gets the sack anyway.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_b3f687d1	comment	FoxTrot: Peter begs the coach to put him in, but he's a genuinely terrible player who spends more time practicing theatrics then actually practicing. He actually receives a concussion afterwards. One arc starts with him being put in a special position by the coach, in which he will doubtless do better than any other player: benchwarmer. In another strip, he doesn't try out for any of the teams and is unpleasantly surprised to discover his name is pre-printed on the lists of rejected players (including baseball and girls' gymnastics). In one arc, he becomes the assistant football coach and his Drunk with Power antics drive the entire team so nuts that the coach puts him next to the opposing team's goal so their team will be able to vent their frustration (it's won them three games).
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_bf1cda2f	comment	A Freaks and Geeks episode has Bill urging Coach Fredricks to put him and his fellow geeks on the gym-class baseball team. They get their wish...and find their side getting shelled before the first inning is over.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_cac1f772	comment	Inverted in CSI where one of the college football team's best players demands to be put on the field because there are professional scouts... and the coach (the Victim of the Week) keeps him off because the player was benefiting from a backer's program behind the coach's back, thereby putting the entire school's athletic program in jeopardy, and accidentally killing a girl in a backer's car.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_ce9c80bf	comment	Slam Dunk: During the practice match against Ryonan, Professor Anzai is keeping Sakuragi in the bench, by telling him that he's their "secret weapon". It's not until the second half when Akagi gets a minor injury and has to get out that he seizes his chance to get in and play, and naturally being a beginner he proceeds to make a fool of himself repeatedly.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_d839346d	comment	Season 4 of Major has Goro playing for the Memphis Bats, a team with lousy fielding but very strong batting. While he's normally called in as a closer, during a match he requests to the coach to be put on the mound halfway through the fifth inning, in order to motivate the other players with a bit of his own Get A Hold Of Yourself Man style, and they begin a brutal counterattack from then on. That match is just the beginning for the Bats to get into the game and rise to eventually become champions of the Minor League.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_e936047a	comment	Hey Arnold!: Arnold, in "Eating Contest", wins after the only remaining competitor falls face first into a bowl of ice cream. Arnold again, in "Benchwarmer", with a basketball game. This time, he comes off the bench after being benched for several games for not following his coach's ridiculous strategy and scores game winning points from a set play. Eugene Horowitz, in "Coach Wittenberg", bowling. He throws the ball, falls flat on his face, but makes a wide split
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_ea77c5ab	comment	Captain Tsubasa: The World Youth finals has a variation. Misaki escapes from the hospital and arrives to the stadium during the half-time break, and he wants to enter to help his teammates despite his leg not being fully recovered. A fax sent for Coach Gamo from the hospital says that Misaki can play at most for thirty minutes, lest he could risk his leg and future career if he exceeds the limit. Reluctantly, Gamo complies, and Misaki proceeds to contribute to Japan's victory.
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_f565604d	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Put Me In, Coach! / int_f565604d	comment	In Eyeshield 21, the Devil Bats play against the Yuuhi Guts during the Fall Tournament, only to find the coach has replaced the regular line-up with ringers from the other sports teams at Yuuhi High School. After the Devil Bats manage to gain a strong lead anyway, the coach reluctantly sends in the regular lineup, who fail to make a comeback, but still put up a good fight (this is even more pronounced in the manga, when it's the regulars who score Yuuhi's only touchdown against Deimon instead of the ringers).
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Put Me In, Coach! / int_f78e69f	comment	Played straight in Disney's Chicken Little, with the added motivation of the title chicken trying to put the embarrassing "sky is falling incident", where his claim that the sky is falling turned out to be an acorn, behind him. And then it turns out the incident was real.
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Put Me In, Coach!	processingCategory2	Narrative Devices
Put Me In, Coach!	processingCategory2	Older Than Television
Chosen One's Adventure with Legendaries (Fanfic) / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Bend It Like Beckham / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Brick / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Moneyball / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Napoleon Dynamite / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Status Update / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Teen Wolf The Movie / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
The Freshman	seeAlso	Put Me In, Coach!
The Freshman (1925) / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
The Natural / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Varsity Blues / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Heaven's Memo Pad / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
FacingTheGiants	seeAlso	Put Me In, Coach!
Ungvichian	seeAlso	Put Me In, Coach!
Eyeshield 21 (Manga) / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Whistle! (Manga) / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Bella and the Bulldogs / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Hang Time / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Make It or Break It / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Recht Op Recht / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Rumbata, Ronaldo and I / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
The Ultimate Fighter / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Doug / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Early Man / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Goofy / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
The Emperor's New School / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
The Weekenders / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Angels in the Outfield / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!
Facing the Giants / int_f8fc95d3	type	Put Me In, Coach!

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