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Home of the Longmeadow Knights
The holidays
are coming....
And football merchandise can still be purchased! Please contact Erica Nunley at 567-4982
Players: From the heat and humidity of summer to the cold and damp of fall,
you listened, learned and worked hard, and ended the season as better players and better teams. Your coaches are proud
of your efforts and accomplishments! Parents: thank you for your time and effort throughout this long season. The success of our program
is in large part due to your support. Thank you for the great kids that filled our rosters!
The Suburban
Amateur Football League has its own website:
www.suburbanfootball.com/ Take a look at it for standings, rules, websites of member programs, etc.
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Questions? Interested
in helping the program? Call Bob Ostrander (567-7266) or Tom Gerweck (567-8244)
The LYFA would like to thank Donna
Novak for her years of service to the program, and welcomes Jeanne Rye as registrar.
The LYFA would also like to thank: - Bill
McCormick for his voluntary efforts in improving the high school game field and
the practice field - Evil Sports for the sweatshirts for the coaches - RFL Electric for the installation of timers
on the practice field lights as well as lights on the Pee Wee practice field. - Agnoli Signs for our registration signs.
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The LYFA is not only your favorite youth sports program, it's also a charitable organization
(legally filed with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 501(C3). Your contributions and donations are tax deductible,
but please consult a tax advisor about this.
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Fans see pumped fists and bumping chests during the game itself, and think football
is an event of brute conflict. Obviously, that's a factor. But before the game are extraordinary periods of cooperative work.
There's perhaps 1,000 hours of preparation for each hour of play, and almost all the preparation must be done jointly. Football
players and coaches spend more hours together, in complex social settings, than the players and coaches of any other sport.
The ability to get along with others is more important to football than to any sport. Some star basketball players barely
speak to their teammates. In football, even the most renowned star must be a good teammate and must interact constructively
with everyone in the locker room down to the lowliest player, or the game simply cannot be won. There's a reason towns view
the success of their high school football teams, and cities view the success of their NFL teams, as symbolizing the town's
and cities' prospects – because football cannot happen unless large numbers of people get along. And we're entering
a world in which it will matter more than ever that large numbers of people get along. Football teaches that very thing.
- Gregg Easterbrook ("The Tuesday Morning Quarterback")
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