The Newton Eagles (9-3) advanced to the next round of the playoffs on Friday, after serving up a 56-13 beatdown to the Dublin Lions (7-5) in a neutral-field 3A D-2 bi-district playoff game at Buffalo.

Like so many football fans, Cam Newton watched The Pat McAfee Show‘s live broadcast from a Dublin, Ireland pub before the Florida State-Georgia Tech game in awe and wonder at what was happening.