Sunday, February 20, 2011

It was a strange game...

But then you saw the 12 uniformed officers escorting the 14 Gainesville players off the field and two and two started to make four. They lined the players up in groups of five—handcuffs ready in their back pockets—and marched them to the team bus. That's because Gainesville is a maximum-security correctional facility 75 miles north of Dallas. Every game it plays is on the road.

It was Grapevine Faith Christian School against Gainesville State School...Grapevine Faith won the game and the hearts of some young criminals...it's a lesson we could all learn from...

And Hogan said, "Imagine if you didn't have a home life. Imagine if everybody had pretty much given up on you. Now imagine what it would mean for hundreds of people to suddenly believe in you."

Read the story here...

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