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They won! They won! They won! State-bound for the third time!
« on: December 05, 2015, 10:17:59 PM »
My tiny home town of Crowell, TX just beat the #1 team in the state (Borden County) to win the Texas Six Man Football Semifinal Championship. This is the third time in three years they'll be playing for the State Championship. Given we lost four starters to graduation we weren't sure they would be even a district contender but the kids knuckled down andgutted through a tough season to make things come together again.

Something like this might be ho-hum to a lot of places but for the only town in the poorest county in Texas, it's a big deal. For some of these kids it may be the highlight of their life. If you want to see how.a small town can rally around their own, keep an eye on something like this. How much, you ask? Well, from a town of 981 more than 4000 showed up for the team's first state championship game. Total attendance for the Six Man championship was second only to the 5A crowd, and even then just by a couple hundred.

While typing this I've gotten about a dozen phone calls and more than 50 texts from family, friends, and classmates about it. Yeah, it's kinda a big thing in our little fly speck of a town.  =D

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Re: They won! They won! They won! State-bound for the third time!
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2015, 03:52:54 AM »
Got a text from my nephew that most of Crowell turned out to welcome the team back. A town square that's usually dark and silent any time past 8PM was shoulder-to-shoulder with a crowd of many hundreds when the buses arrived. TX DPS even sent a couple of units as an Honor Guard escort.

Yeah, it's a small town thing. But it's MY small town and, dammit, I'm gonna celebrate.  =)  =)  =)

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"And he thought cops wouldn't chase... a STOLEN DONUT TRUCK???? That would be like Willie Nelson ignoring a pickup full of weed."
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Re: They won! They won! They won! State-bound for the third time!
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2015, 10:14:05 AM »
I love it when the underdog / little guy wins.
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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2015, 10:36:17 AM »
It's an inspiring, feel-good story.  I can't imagine many here that aren't moved at least a little by it.

Thanks for passing it on, Brad.  (I grew up in small towns too.)
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Re: They won! They won! They won! State-bound for the third time!
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2015, 10:56:42 AM »
Quote from: Doggy Daddy on December 06, 2015, 10:36:17 AM
It's an inspiring, feel-good story.  I can't imagine many here that aren't moved at least a little by it.


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Re: They won! They won! They won! State-bound for the third time!
« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2015, 11:08:37 AM »
Quote from: fistful on December 06, 2015, 10:56:42 AM

You must be new here.

Relatively speaking, I guess so.
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« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2015, 08:32:49 PM »
^ <chuckle>  I see what you did there.

On topic, pay that coach. Pay him a lot.  Even if it's off his pay records.

Or, you could nominate him for Dude-In-Chief, if you get my drift.

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