By Gabe Garnett –  Staff Reporter

The new Netflix series “We Are: The Brooklyn Saints” is a football series that shows what it is like to be a young football player in the inner city in Brooklyn. 

Like “Friday Night Lights,” The Brooklyn Saints” is a heart-warming story. Released on January 29, the Netflix series shows what some young kids have to go through while playing football in Brooklyn. We meet coach Edwin Gawuala, who is one of the main coaches that inspires the kids and allows them to learn about what the real world has in store for them. He says to them before every game, “It’s me and you vs the world.” He looks to inspire the kids in any way he can; he is like an emotional cheerleader, always yelling and jumping getting the kids hyped up.

The show starts off by talking about how the word saint means “God’s people” and how the goal isn’t to win games. The main goal of this community football team is to save a life every year by taking the kids off the streets away from the bad parts of Brooklyn and allowing them to go play football. The kids range from 7 to 13 years old. The series shows more of the younger kids playing instead of the older kids, but viewers do learn about a young man named Kenan who is having trouble picking between a really good football high school or a good engineering school known for its robotics. A speaker is brought in to talk to him and the speaker tells him, “Use football, don’t let football use you.”

Later in the series, viewers learn more about the young kids, how football is impacting their lives and what it is doing to help them succeed in life. One kid viewers learn about the most is D-Lo, a 9-year-old who is moving up into the bigger leagues for football next year. His father, Coach Vick, is arrested in one of the episodes for a minor traffic charge in the middle of practice and that takes a toll of D-Lo. One of the coaches says to the team, “D-Lo makes sure he carries y’all so I need y’all to make sure y’all carry D-Lo today.” In the fourth episode, D-Lo gets hurt in one of the games and is taken out, but after a sort time he chooses to go back in, and even though they didn’t win, “D-Lo didn’t give up and that’s all that matters,” Coach Gawuala says.

Overall, the show was very entertaining to watch. Watching the young kids go through the season was worth it. If viewers like football, they will love the show, but even if they don’t like football, the show really teaches people life lessons and things they can keep with them for the rest of their lives.