Posted on 03/06/2006 11:47:40 AM PST by notaliberal
Amazing, positive story about a young man
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I am convinced that I could teach Jason McElwain how to do a keyword search with the word "autistic" in it before posting.
Isn't Disney making a movie about this guy?
There ya go! Happy now?
I heard the young man got over 2 dozen movie offers!
What a great story!
Speak English please.
My question remains: Why did the coach keep him off the floor so long?
A coach who doesn't know what his players can do is not a good coach.
Did the kid just have an exceptional game, or did the coach think he couldn't play and was doing him a favor?
The article I read last week implied the latter.
Your welcome!
I was starting to get the impression that these autistic three-point bombers were sprouting all over the place. Have you heard about the new NBA expansion franchise: The Rochester Rainmen?
hahahaha
We had a similar story with the local HS football team in Keller, Texas. We had a kid who was a trainer on the football team who was either autistic or had Down Syndrome or something like that (I forget the exact details). In a game late in the season with neither team in the running for the playoffs, the coach wanted to get the kid in and give him a chance to run the ball. He had talked with the coach of the other team ahead of time, and they had agreed that on the first offensive play of the 4th quarter, he would have this kid run the ball and the other coach agreed that he would instruct his defense to make it look like they were trying, but not tackle the kid. As circumstances would turn out, the final play of the 3rd quarter was a punt by the other team that went out of bounds on the Keller one-yard line. So, the 4th quarter started with the Indians starting at their own one. The play ran as agreed, with the student-trainer getting the handoff in his own end zone, breaking through the line of scrimmage, "breaking tackles", and running 99 yards for a touchdown. It is a memory he and his family (along with most of his classmates) will treasure forever.
We hear so many stories about kids who do "wrong" I thought it was very inspirational. I like good news once in a while.
He was the team manager, not a player on the team roster. He was put into the last game of the season only for sentimental purposes. No one thought he would actually shoot and not score, for sure.
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