A Rockwall homecoming proposal went viral after Kaden Warren’s teammates held up the letters backward.
ROCKWALL, Texas — A video of a sweet moment following a Rockwall High School football game is going viral, after a senior safety tried to ask his girlfriend to homecoming with the help of his teammates.
Kaden Warren told WFAA in an interview Wednesday he was so excited to ask his girlfriend, Macie Dillard to homecoming.
“She’s really amazing, and like the sweetest person and extremely beautiful,” he said.
Kaden’s teammate, linebacker Justin Riekers, said he’s never seen his friend so happy.
“He spends a lot of time with her, I’ve never seen him feel this way about somebody,” Justin told WFAA.
With homecoming around the corner, Kaden concluded a grand gesture was in order — a homecoming proposal, following a Friday night football win.
“I’ve never asked somebody out to homecoming before,” he said.
Kaden decided to surprise Macie with flowers, and have Justin and their other teammates hold up posters asking her to homecoming.
“I had stressed too, about them getting it perfect,” Kaden told WFAA.
“I was like, ‘trust me, I got this!’” Justin assured Kaden.
But when it came time for the homecoming proposal, Kaden’s teammates, who were supposed to spell ‘HOCO?’ with their posters, spelled it backward, and instead spelled out, ‘?OCOH’
“I just turned around and saw the backwards homecoming,” Macie laughed.
“I [saw] the look on [Kaden’s} face, and I was like, well what did I do wrong?” Justin remembered. “I was looking down like, ‘oh, it’s backwards!” he laughed.
The boys re-ordered themselves. And Macie said yes.
“It was really funny,” she giggled.
The video spread like wildfire, with tens of millions of views across the internet.
“I didn’t think it was gonna blow up like it did,” Kaden smiled.
“This is definitely one of the better mistakes,” Justin laughed.
The misspelling made Kaden’s proposal famous. But getting to take Macie to the dance, that’s what he said matters to him most.