Oh, the IRONY. A football team relies on Government Aid to win!
Show this to your local Republicans.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Georgia-school-overcomes-hunger-to-claim-state-t?urn=highschool-wp10283
Wed Dec 21 02:51pm EST
Georgia school overcomes hunger to claim state title
By Cameron Smith
Usually, when an analyst says that a team was hungry for a state title, they mean that in a figurative sense. In the case of the Burke County (Ga.) High football team, that phrase meant something quite a bit more literal: The players were actually hungry.
As reported by CBS News, one of Georgia's newly crowned champions made a quantum leap in performance in 2011, and its coach has little doubt that better nutrition -- mostly in the form of simple access to more food -- was a big part of the improvement.
"We're probably like most small towns in America right now -- you know, we're struggling," Burke County football coach Eric Parker told CBS. "So, bringing food home and putting it on the table for a lot of our people, you know, that's a big deal.
"We had kids who literally by Tuesday had to be removed from practice because of the intensity and the amount of energy they were having to expend."
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