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There were thirteen speakers, including oldest daughter Stephanie McBride who represented the family.<ref name=memorialservice>{{cite web|url=https://archive.is/20140308150452/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}}</ref>

There were thirteen speakers, including oldest daughter Stephanie McBride who represented the family.<ref name=memorialservice>{{cite web|url=https://archive.is/20140308150452/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}}</ref>

<ref>{{cite web|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|publisher=''The 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>

<ref>{{cite web|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|publisher=''The 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=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140309/SPORTS/303090026/Shows-leaves-behind-blueprint-Rebel-success|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20140310100121/|author=Tabby Soignier|title=Shows leaves behind blueprint for Rebel success|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=December 26, 2019|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/>