The Rigdon family just keeps winning on six-man football fields across Texas, and some people will never like that—mostly because of its nomadic gridiron history and the outspoken personality of its patriarch.Not that Jamie Rigdon, currently on the coaching staff at Benjamin High and the primary target of the criticism, cares.“I have a wife and seven kids,” the fifty-year-old bear of a man told Texas Monthly recently. “I don’t have to please anybody except that woman.”Rigdon’s boss at Benjamin, head coach Nathan Hayes, conceded that his defensive coordinator is “a different cat.”When Benjamin tries to repeat as Division II state champions on Wednesday afternoon at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, much of the attention will be focused on the Mustangs’ junior spread back, Grayson Rigdon. He’s…
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