ALDINE BAD BOYS: 1990 State, National Champs Reflect 31 Years Later

CLOSE YOUR EYES.

You're sitting in the locker room in the depths of the 8th Wonder of the World. The crowd is roaring. The cannon booms as it is played on the video board. As you walk up the stairs towards the field, the smell of fresh stadium popcorn flows into your nostrils.

Then you run out.

Coming out of the tunnel, imagine the energy. The excitement. The feeling of coming from a dark and tight tunnel
to looking up to the large metal beams arching across holding up the roof, the multi-colored seats filled with screaming fans ready to watch the 1990 Class 5A State Championship.

"Then you're sitting there – 'We made it,'" Tremel Prudhomme, the starting left guard from the 1990 State and National Champion Aldine Mustang football team said.

"That was the mecca, everybody wanted to go to the 'Dome. If you made it to the 'Dome, you were considered legit."

Defensive end and now Captain of the Aldine Police Department Mark Harris added: "Back then, going into the Dome was historic, it was amazing. Coming up in Aldine, it was like our second home. We came up under these guys and it was normal for us to make sure we would be in the 'Dome in the later games in the playoffs."

In the late 80s, Aldine was legit. District 21-5A football was legit.