Between classes, they schemed and conspired. For weeks, the football players at Olivet Middle School in Olivet, Mich., secretly planned their remarkable play.
“Everyone was in on it,” says Nick Jungel.
“But the coaches didn’t know anything about it,” Parker Smith says. “We were, like, going behind their back.”
We’ve never heard of a team coming up with a plan to not score.
What a really lovely story. It seems there have been a number of similar stories of football teams doing such things of late. Maybe they always have occurred, but the internet has made them accessible; who knows? However, this is the first I’ve known of where the kids planned and executed it without the coaches being involved. I love how his mother says, “Someone will always have his back,” and how the wide receiver cries unabashedly while talking about it. Lovely. Thank you for posting this Kendall and Elves.
Where are all the other comments? Hasn’t anyone taken the time to read some good news for a change, to view a story which includes all the best parts of people dealing with and caring for each other?
This was a middle school – typically grades 5-8, ages 11-14. These students, with their concern, organization and execution could put to shame many of the “elders” at churches I’ve attended/visited.
I pray that kids like this are the future of America!