Former high school football team receives championship rings 50 years after winning state title

ABC News’ Deborah Roberts reports on the celebration in her hometown of Perry, Georgia, of a football championship overlooked for 50 years.“Every piece of this grass out here, the team players planted by hand and watered by hand... This story was never told; how it happened, what happened and the reasons,” Carl Lumpkin, a former player, told ABC News' Deborah Roberts.

“It was really just a game, a regular game to the community, it was more than [that] to the players,” Lumpkin said.“The wrong was we were not recognized by the school, the Board of Education, the city of Perry,” Clarington said. Segregation finally ended in Perry a month after Houston High won the championship. The students were integrated into Perry High School.

So much time had passed, and not everyone who helped the football team achieve the victory could be present for the moment. The wife of their coach, Elijah Weatherspoon, accepted a ring and drawing on his behalf.“In order to get along in this world, you have to love one another ... respect one another,” Clarington said.

This is what qualifies as national news? Who gives a fuck?

I miss high school

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