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==Shows' long legacy==

==Shows' long legacy==

Shows memorial service, called "The Celebration of the Life of Don Shows," held at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 7, at his namesake Don Shows Field in Rebel Stadium in West Monroe attracted thousands of mourners. Some five hundred former and active players, three team doctors, and area politicians, including the state Attorney General  [[Buddy Caldwell]], then long-term West Monroe [[Mayor]] [[Dave Norris]], then state Representative Frank A. Hoffmann, himself a former [[radio]] football announcer, Ouachita Parish School Board member Jerry Hicks, and Ouachita Parish Superintendent Bob Webber, participated in the ceremony, which was planned over the preceding four days by Shows' widow, Daune, whom Shows long called his "toughest critic." Another school board member, Bill Norris, served as the master of ceremonies.<ref name=ouacitizen/> There were thirteen speakers, including oldest daughter Stephanie McBride who represented the family.<ref name=memorialservice>{{cite news|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140307/NEWS01/303070048/Shows-celebration-draws-tears-cheers|author=Tabby Soignier|title=Shows celebration draws tears and cheers: Thousands turn out to honor a legend|date=March 7, 2014|publisher=''the Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=March 8, 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20140308150452/http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140307/NEWS01/303070048/Shows-celebration-draws-tears-cheers|archivedate=March 8, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20140303/SPORTS0101/140303009/Legendary-West-Monroe-High-School-football-coach-Don-Shows-dies|title=Legendary West Monroe High School football coach Don Shows dies|newspaper=[[The Times (Shreveport)|Shreveport Times]]|accessdate=March 6, 2014}}</ref> The Shows service drew a worldwide audience of 13,054 in preliminary numbers from a live [[Internet]] stream at the high school website, gorebs.org<ref name=blueprint>{{cite web|url=https://archive.is/20140310100121/http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140309/SPORTS/303090026/Shows-leaves-behind-blueprint-Rebel-success|author=Tabby Soignier|title=Shows leaves behind blueprint for Rebel success|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=March 9, 2014|archivedate=March 10, 2014}}</ref>

Shows memorial service, called "The Celebration of the Life of Don Shows," held at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 7, at his namesake Don Shows Field in Rebel Stadium in West Monroe attracted thousands of mourners. Some five hundred former and active players, three team doctors, and area politicians, including the then state Attorney General  [[Buddy Caldwell]], then long-term West Monroe [[Mayor]] [[Dave Norris]], then state Representative Frank A. Hoffmann, himself a former [[radio]] football announcer, Ouachita Parish School Board member Jerry Hicks, and Ouachita Parish Superintendent Bob Webber, participated in the ceremony, which was planned over the preceding four days by Shows' widow, Daune, whom Shows long called his "toughest critic." Another school board member, Bill Norris, served as the master of ceremonies.<ref name=ouacitizen/> There were thirteen speakers, including oldest daughter Stephanie McBride who represented the family.<ref name=memorialservice>{{cite news|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140307/NEWS01/303070048/Shows-celebration-draws-tears-cheers|author=Tabby Soignier|title=Shows celebration draws tears and cheers: Thousands turn out to honor a legend|date=March 7, 2014|publisher=''the Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=March 8, 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20140308150452/http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140307/NEWS01/303070048/Shows-celebration-draws-tears-cheers|archivedate=March 8, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20140303/SPORTS0101/140303009/Legendary-West-Monroe-High-School-football-coach-Don-Shows-dies|title=Legendary West Monroe High School football coach Don Shows dies|newspaper=[[The Times (Shreveport)|Shreveport Times]]|accessdate=March 6, 2014}}</ref> The Shows service drew a worldwide audience of 13,054 in preliminary numbers from a live [[Internet]] stream at the high school website, gorebs.org<ref name=blueprint>{{cite web|url=https://archive.is/20140310100121/http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140309/SPORTS/303090026/Shows-leaves-behind-blueprint-Rebel-success|author=Tabby Soignier|title=Shows leaves behind blueprint for Rebel success|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=March 9, 2014|archivedate=March 10, 2014}}</ref>

[[Greg Hilburn]], staff writer for ''The Monroe News-Star,'' recalled that Shows "took over a moribund West Monroe football program in 1989. The school had been to the playoffs only twice in forty years before his arrival as head coach."<ref name=mns/> In a previous interview with ''The News-Star'', Shows said that upon his arrival the West Monroe program was "at a point in time where it was going to fold up ... or it was going to turn around. Personally, I don't think anybody really cared one way or the other, because they didn't think you could win here."<ref name=mns/>

[[Greg Hilburn]], staff writer for ''The Monroe News-Star,'' recalled that Shows "took over a moribund West Monroe football program in 1989. The school had been to the playoffs only twice in forty years before his arrival as head coach."<ref name=mns/> In a previous interview with ''The News-Star'', Shows said that upon his arrival the West Monroe program was "at a point in time where it was going to fold up ... or it was going to turn around. Personally, I don't think anybody really cared one way or the other, because they didn't think you could win here."<ref name=mns/>