Jarrett and Gerald Morrow want to win football games — and championships, too. But the twin bothers have loftier ambitions for their first season in Orange Mound.

The Morrows, who graduated from their alma mater in 2002, are in their first season as co-head coaches at Melrose. It’s a job the two feel called to do because of their deep connections to the school and surrounding neighborhoods.

Recently, though, those neighborhoods have suffered their fare share of tragedies. The Morrows aim to use football as a vehicle for healing while also winning as much as possible and making Orange Mound rock on Friday nights like it did when they were popular players themselves under the legendary Tim Thompson. Thompson guided the Golden Wildcats to their last state title in 1998.

The Morrows’ goal is to do the same.

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