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During his illustrious 11-year career as a Pro Bowl wide receiver in the NFL, and his star turn at USC before that, Keyshawn Johnson was part of plenty of memorable finishes to football games. But none stuck in his mind like the way some of his games ended when he was playing at Susan Miller Dorsey High School in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Baldwin Hills — with gang members shooting out the stadium lights.
Johnson and his co-host on FS1’s “SPEAK”, NBA champion Paul Pierce, recently recounted their experiences growing up in inner-city Los Angeles in a special edition of Johnson’s podcast “All Facts No Brakes” on FOXSports.com, the FOX Sports App, YouTube and all major podcast platforms.
“Here at Dorsey, they done shot out the lights before,” Johnson recalled. “Just shoot ‘em out. ’Game over, go home. We beat y’all by 50, it’s time to go home. Ain’t no need to stick around, do none of that.’ All of that was intimidation.”
That helps explain why Johnson still refers to Dorsey’s Jackie Robinson Field by its nickname from back then: “The Terrordome.
A Sports Illustrated article published in 1992, shortly after Johnson graduated, described Dorsey thusly:
“This is the school where the Bloods, founded by Dorsey High student T. Rodgers in the early 1970s, first fought the Crips. It is a place where gangbangers jump students in class. A school in a war zone. Athletics traditionally have been a buffer between students and the violence of the inner city. At Dorsey that is not always the case.”
Keyshawn Johnson recalls gang members shooting out Dorsey High lights: ‘Game over, go home!’
It was not always the case at plenty of other nearby high schools, either. After all, people in Los Angeles still refer to this area as “The Jungle.” The 2001 film “Training Day,” about Los Angeles police officers navigating gang-ridden neighborhoods, was shot on location nearby.
Both Johnson and Pierce, who grew up in nearby Inglewood and became a basketball star at Inglewood…
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