[fic]rhythmsextion: Hail Mary
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Title: Hail Mary
Writer: pianoforeplay
Alternate links: on AO3
Status of work: complete
Characters and/or pairings: Jensen Ackles/Jared, PadaleckiJensen Ackles/Original Male Character(s), etc.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings, kinks & contents: [Click to read]sex
Length:114496
Summary: Three years since becoming the first openly gay coach of a Division I collegiate football team, Jensen Ackles is hired by the Dallas Cowboys as their new quarterbacks coach. Though happy to return to his hometown and eager to return to the NFL, Jensen's new position puts him directly in charge of former teammate, Jared Padalecki, with whom Jensen had a somewhat complicated personal relationship ten years before. Jensen also finds his new position comes with a price when the organization makes it clear they intend to use Jensen's sexual orientation to further their own status. When an old high school friend steps back into Jensen's life, the situation becomes increasingly complicated as Jensen struggles to balance his professional life with his private while attempting to control his reawakening feelings for Padalecki.
Reccer's notes: This is a fandom classic, I'm surprised that nobody has recced it here before. Maybe people are operating on my belief that someone must have. But, anyways, this is not only the best sports fiction in the fandom, but I'd say, actually, anyone has ever written.