DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Tailgate Forum Boy With Down Syndrome Scores Touchdown

Here’s a nice sports story for you.

Matt Ziesel is a student at Benton High School in St. Joseph, Missouri. He has Down Syndrome, so while he is on the team, he doesn’t participate in “full-contact drills at practices,” according to the Kansas City Star.

At a game on Monday, with the Benton team trailing 46-0 with 10 seconds left to play, coach Dan McCamy wanted to get Matt on the field. He asked the opposing side’s coach if they would be willing to let Matt run the ball into the end zone. That would mean no shutout, but obviously they would still get the win. Coach McCamy told the Star that the other team “didn’t hesitate at all.” Apparently everyone was in tears when it was all over.

Here is a video of the run. You know what? He looks pretty good.

Was posted a few days ago here:
https://www.dawgtalkers.net/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/596346/an/0/page/1#Post596346

sorry. Was out of town and didn't see it when I looked through the last couple pages of posts. .


Ref's feel free to delete.

Wow, that's some poor tackling.

Looked pretty much like the Browns on any given Sunday.

it looked like a split backs spread formation--similar to what the browns and some teams use. good story and good video.

Funny thing is, last night was the first time I'd seen it, it was ESPN, and I didn't catch the prestory since I was in a bar and couldn't hear the TV, I just saw this kid running, and thinking, "Man the kids in green uni's aren't even trying. If I was their coach they'd hate practice next week."