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posted Friday, October 22, 2010 at 2:46pm PDT on Lowering the Rim � Will that Really Help Women�s Basketball?
What Sports Are Really About
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posted by Draft Day Suit A (usually) humorous look at sports written by popular parent bloggers and some of their friends. |
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From the “That’s what it’s really all about” files I give you Dylan Galloway:
Galloway is the Arkansas teen with cerebral palsy that scored a touchdown for his high school. A life long dream of his, he had been bugging the head football coach, Toby Doke, all year. In the fourth quarter of an already lost game, coach put a helmet on Galloway and sent him in. He took the hand-off from the quarterback, took a left, and rolled his wheelchair in for the touchdown. According to reports the entire stands stood up and cheered. Including the opposing team’s stands.
Like the triumphant touchdown run of Ike Ditzenberger that we shared with you earlier this month, Dylan’s story reminds us that sports should be about these moments:
helping each other, supporting your teammates no matter what their abilities are, rooting for the kid that needs the support, everyone having fun and feeling good in the process. This is what we should be teaching our kids; this is why they should participate in sports. I realize that pro sports are a money-making gig but if you haven’t started here, with these moments, with these kids, these coaches and teams, then there is no place for pro sports. These moments matter more than what the pros are doing because there is no amount of money that can replace what these kids learned in these touchdown moments.
Kendra wants more stories like this, and fewer instances of athletes behaving badly.
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