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Though Mack is portrayed as being a competent football team captain and a good leader, he is not as competent at actually playing the game. He is unable to successfully perform in the quarterback role when Kevin is knocked out of action by a leg injury in "[[A Tree Grows in Lawndale]]." An extinct webpage on an MTV ''Daria'' site gave Mack's position as RB (=Running Back).
Mack is quite popular at [[Lawndale High]]. Aside from being the football team captain, he has been elected several times running as the Homecoming King for the school's homecoming parade, with [[Jodie]] always as the Homecoming Queen ("[[I Loathe a Parade]]"). When serving as a football game announcer, Upchuck calls
===Antagonists===
The one exception to his popular standing is Ms. Barch, the misanthropic science teacher. For reasons unknown, Janet Barch appears to have marked Mack as her favorite whipping boy. References to this decidedly ugly conflict abound: "[[The Lab Brat]]," "[[Gifted]]," "[[Fair Enough]]," ''[[The Daria Database]]'' (in which he writes, "I will not show Ms. Barch fear, no matter what she does to me," and is later shown being made by Ms. Barch to write, "I am male, therefore I suck," repeatedly on the blackboard during study hall).
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