Found 9 hours ago on The Victory Formation:
There are times when we question why we allow ourselves to care so much about sports. As I’ve grown older, the ignorance of it ‘being just a game’ is gone. It is a business, and it tends to muck it up at times. Additionally, we read about people like the parent in Texas who doesn’t understand the difference between their son being bullied and just being on a terrible team. It is just things like as such that make me want to stop paying so much attention. Then I read and see things like what took place in Wisconsin that reel me back and remind me how great sports can be.
Noah VanVooren, born with Down syndrome, has been the Little Chute High School football team manager the last four years. He is as much of the program as anyone that wears a uniform, and he was rewarded for his dedication to them by suiting up for a game, and having the opportunity to put an exclamation point on the team’s playoff-clinching victory with 1.2 seconds remaining:
As the crowd chanted, “Noah! Noah!” VanVooren jogged onto the field and lined up alongside quarterback Sam Merryfield.VanVooren took the handoff from Merryfield and ran around right end 35 yards into the end zone, spiking the football before his teammates swarmed him.
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