Sports
Cross Key Football Team 'Never Folds'
The Brookhaven school's varsity squad is filled with many immigrant students who didn't grow up with a pigskin in their hands.
Cross Keys' football team, unfortunately, tends to lose. And it tends to lose big.
But the team, heavy with first generation American students who didn't grow up with the uniquely American sport, never quits, according to a very good feature published Monday in Atlanta's Saporta Report.
From the story:
Down 41-0 at halftime Friday night, the Cross Keys Indians could have easily folded. They had every reason to be discouraged: They haven’t had a winning season since 1994. They haven’t won a game since Sept. 16, 2011.
But these sons of immigrants, first generation Americans and football players, never fold. Just as their parents haven’t given up on building a good life in a sometimes inhospitable land of opportunity, so too, it seems, these teenagers keep believing they can master a game that was alien to them as children.
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