One of the teams hoping for a win in the Ohio High School Athletic Association's State Championship finals on Saturday is Trimble Local High School in Southeast Ohio.
The school is in Glouster, a small town in Appalachian Ohio that has been hit hard over the past few decades from the decline in coal mining.
However, it doesn't take a visitor long before they realize this community is rich in something else.
"The entire town, the population is about 2,000 and the entire town goes to these football games," explains Chief Ryan Nagucki of the Glouster Police Department.
An estimated 1,000 people will travel from that community to Canton to watch the Trimble Local High School football team take on McComb for the state championship in Division VII.
What their opponents may not know is there's a surprise hidden under the helmets of this team.
"Every week you win, there's more people getting mohawks," says head football coach Phil Faires.
That hair raising tribute of pride has spread from the principal to the police chief and beyond.
"In the area here, we probably have at least half our population rocking mohawks right now," Nagucki says.
The lockers down the school's hallways have been decorated for the football players.
One is decorated from floor to ceiling this one. On it is a photo of a young boy with a red mohawk.
That's where this story starts.
"Sawyer Koons, when he was about in the 5th sixth grade, they had him loose some weight so he could continue playing running back in youth league, and [his parents] said he could get whatever hair cut he wanted," recalls Principal Matt Curtis.
That young football player cut the weight and then proudly cut his hair.
In 2013, his older brother, Jacob, decided to follow suit while playing high school football.
His team made it to the state semifinals for the first time in school history. Not only did Jacob bring the mohawk with him, so did everyone else.
"Moms, dads, coaches, aunts, uncles, players, kids, teachers, whoever, everybody was getting them," the principal says underneath his own reddish orange mohawk.
That team formed the original Mohawk Mafia and they went home the runner up trophy.
This year, many of their younger brothers have grown into those uniforms, Sawyer Koons included.
With the team's return to the state finals this year, you better believe the mafia is back.
"They're back with revenge and they have one more game to win to complete the deal," Curtis says.
Now 13-1, with each win the Mohawk Mafia grows.