http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?section=magazine&id=3789373I read this story the other day on ESPN and it amazed me the lengths this coach went to help another team.
Grapevine Faith hosted Gainesville State School in Grapevine, Texas.
The Grapevine coach asked his fans to run out and cheer the Gainesville team when they came out of the locker room. The fans did it and even made them a banner to run through!
The coach even asked the fans to sit half and half - half rooting for their kids team and the other half rooting and sitting in the visiting section. And the parents, although thinking the coach was on drugs, went with it.
Grapevine's coach had heard that the Tornadoes were 0-8 going into the game, had only scored 2 tds all season and had archaic equipment. Gainesville is a maximum-security correctional facility north of Dallas and never have had a 'home' game. They have a lot of kids with convictions for drugs, assault and robbery and I guess many of the kids families never come to support their children.
Grapevine beat the team pretty bad, but towards the end of the game, they switched some of their DLineman to play as Safeties and the Tornadoes ended up scoring two touchdowns. The Tornadoes team was so excited they gave their coach a Gatorade bath!
When the Tornadoes were walking back to their bus under guard, each player was handed a bag for the ride home with meal, some candy, a Bible and an encouraging letter from a Faith player.
What a cool thing to do!!!!!