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[[Image:mack-sjr-1.gif|frame|A rare moment of real anger: "I've told you a million times, don't call me that! When are you going to get it through your thick skull already?" ("[[See Jane Run]]")]]
In the Lawndale Lions website, he expresses secret disgust with the rest of the team and the adults around it: "Sports are a great way to build character. You learn how to take orders from an ignorant, often abusive authority figure, abandon any semblance of thinking for yourself, and sublimate your own values and ethics in order to bring some kind of cheap glory to a community of frustrated, embittered fatcats too old and well fed to go out on the field themselves... we'll get college scholarships, unlimited credit at all the stores on campus and our pick of female students to mistreat. And not one of these mindless cretins to the left and right of me on the line of scrimmage will ever give a second thought to whether they deserve any of it."▼
===Drawbacks===
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* In "Is It College Yet?", Mack's family can only afford "[[State University]]" - he can only get into his preferred college, [[Vance University|Vance]], with a scholarship.
===Mack's secret anger===
While Mack is usually level-headed and calm on the show, outside of bursts of anger, off-screen media like the websites and "[[The Daria Database]]" have shown that Mack is secretly angry and bitter about many things.
In "Database", Mack is forced to do a speech praising Kevin's accomplishments at the end-of-season dinner. His draft shows he's increasingly unable to think of anything nice ("Coach, do I have to do this?") and resisting the urge to tear into Kevin for stealing credit from the rest of the team. His New Year Resolution's in the same book have him deciding to let Kevin injure himself, expresses his fear of Janet Barch and recurring fantasy of tricking Brittany into jumping out of a window, and anger with Jodie putting him last after "every other damn thing".
▲In the Lawndale Lions website, he expresses secret disgust with the rest of the team and the adults around it: "Sports are a great way to build character. You learn how to take orders from an ignorant, often abusive authority figure, abandon any semblance of thinking for yourself, and sublimate your own values and ethics in order to bring some kind of cheap glory to a community of frustrated, embittered fatcats too old and well fed to go out on the field themselves... we'll get college scholarships, unlimited credit at all the stores on campus and our pick of female students to mistreat. And not one of these mindless cretins to the left and right of me on the line of scrimmage will ever give a second thought to whether they deserve any of it."
===Relationship with Jodie===
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===Relationship with Kevin===
Mack is constantly shown to be around Kevin, and the two both serve on the [[Lawndale Lions]] team. Kevin's intense stupidity and inability to get Mack's name right irritate him considerably, and "Database" shows him unable to say ''anything'' nice about the lad. Despite that, Mack is shown spending time around Kevin when he wouldn't be required to: "[[I Don't]]" has him hanging around Kevin outside of school, he consoles Kevin when the lad is down and helps get him back on the team in "[[The F Word]]". Kevin also spends more time around Mack (on screen) than other Lions members. The two appear to be, against all odds, actual friends.
In their 'future ego' in [[Is It College Yet?]], the two were shown to be running an ice-cream company together, "Bro & QB". While this was meant as a gag, it has been taken literally in several fanfics.
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