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Just covered a high school football game where the home team's coach, relegated to a wheel chair for over a year because of a freak spinal cord injury, got up and walked across the field to his sideline, just like he promised his seniors he would before the season started. It wasn't easy, he had help on both sides just in case, but it was a pretty cool moment. His team won 34-0.

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I'll post a link in the morning. The paper paid one of the photographers there for the shot. I was hoping it might get 1A but the two best football teams in the state (both local) played tonight.

That kind of stuff is what gives me confidence in our society and species; really cool.

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Here's the back story....he had injured his back playing football years ago, and went to a chiropractor in Atlanta to get it fixed. The guy screwed up big time, and he needed emergency surgery just to stay alive. He was a quadriplegic at first. He's been rehabbing since. Kind of weird to see a coach on the sidelines in a wheelchair, but he does it.

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Just covered a high school football game where the home team's coach, relegated to a wheel chair for over a year because of a freak spinal cord injury, got up and walked across the field to his sideline, just like he promised his seniors he would before the season started. It wasn't easy, he had help on both sides just in case, but it was a pretty cool moment. His team won 34-0.

One never knows, maybe some day I will do that! :thumbsup:

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