NATCHEZ — Mickey Magee’s one-liners are a staple at Trinity Episcopal football games, and it’s hard for the players and fans not to notice.

Magee is part of a group of fans that sit on the bleachers closest to the field and make sure the Saints know they’ve got backup in the stands.

Magee and his group never shout anything obscene or inappropriate, but they always get everyone’s attention when Magee shouts one of his favorite phrases, such as, “There is no tomorrow!”

“I’ve always just been a big fan,” Magee said. “I just enjoy sports, and I enjoy cheering teams on. I’m still coaching Pee Wee football, so I just have a passion for sports.”

Magee, whose step-son Garret Vinson plays for the Saints, said even the coaches stop and turn around whenever his group gives a cheer.

“I think we’re louder than them,” Magee said.

Magee said his cheers are all in good fun, and aren’t meant to be vindictive toward Trinity’s opponent. As far as his one-liners go, Magee said he picked them up from various sources.

“I have a thing for one-liners, and they just kind of stick after a while,” Magee said.

“When I shout, ‘There is no tomorrow,’ that’s actually something I got from the movie ‘Rocky 3.’ It’s when Apollo Creed is training Rocky to beat Clubber Lang, and Apollo is jabbing him and saying, ‘There is no tomorrow!’”

Magee said he’s also partial to saying, ‘Prepare for glory,’ a phrase he borrowed from the movie “300.” He also likes to use a megaphone to project his voice.

“I just try to use my vocal cords to create a sense of urgency,” Magee said.

And Vinson said he’s noticed, though he would rather his step-father be more subdued, he added.

“I want him to stop, because it’s embarrassing,” Vinson said. “I like that he’s cheering, it’s just some of the stuff he says (that gets on my nerves).”

And Vinson also said his friends give him a hard time about it.

“They’ll quote him on the stuff he says and come up to me and say it,” Vinson said.

But at least one Trinity player is glad Magee shouts his favorite phrases.

“It gets me pumped up, because there is no tomorrow,” said Trinity defensive back Tanner Cage.

“What he’s saying is, if we lose the game, people will ask us about it Saturday, so he’s right. We need to keep that from happening, and if the world ends tomorrow, we have to make it happen now.”

Magee said Cage’s mother, Vernessa Cage, is one of his main partners in the cheering atmosphere Friday nights.

“I thought I was bad; she’s even worse,” Magee joked. “She’s extremely loud. We slap high fives though, and we just have a great time.”

Cage said his mother never addresses him specifically, except in one special instance.

“I only hear her when I come to the sidelines,” he said. “She’s not saying it to me, she’s just cheering on the team. But if I drop the ball, then she’ll yell at me. She’ll tell me not to drop it again.

“Everyone says she’s their favorite cheerleader.”

Further back up the stands, Rick Maxwell is another fan the Trinity coaching staff said they notice at the games Friday night. Although Maxwell’s son Will doesn’t play for the team, the two are usually at the games, especially the elder Maxwell.

“I’ve been blessed with a voice that carries. I guess it just worked out that way,” Maxwell said.

“I like to stand in the middle of the main stands, under the press box, and give a shoutout. I usually holler, ‘Way to go Saints,’ except I stress the word ‘Saints’ to where it carries on longer.”

Maxwell said he goes out of his way to cheer the Saints because he feels they need to know they have support for all of their hard work.

“I just want the boys to know there are some fans out there willing to holler for them,” Maxwell said. “They’re playing for themselves, but they’re playing for us, too.

“You can always go out to campus in the middle of the summer and see them working out there every day. We appreciate that, so we make sure they know that.”

And if there is no tomorrow, the fans and players might as well make the best of tonight.