Massachusetts football team rallies around waterboy in touching fashion
Nov 24, 2013, 12:00 PM | Updated: 12:00 pm
A band of suited “Badgers” rallied behind their football team’s waterboy after the quarterback heard the six-year-old was getting picked on, Boston’s WCVB-TV reported.
Mitchell Elementary School kindergartner Danny Keefe survived a serious brain hemorrhage just after he was born, leading the young boy to struggle with verbal apraxia, a speech disorder that makes it difficult for him to speak correctly and consistently.
Keefe also likes to wear a suit and tie to school every single day — an ensemble he chooses all by himself.
But when Tommy Cooney, the 11-year-old quarterback of the Bridgewater Badgers Div. 5 Peewees, heard Keefe was getting teased, the fifth-grader planned a “Danny Appreciation Day.”
On Nov. 20, over 40 students from Mitchell Elementary and Williams Intermediate School in Bridgewater, Mass. surrounded Danny in the library and began chanting, “Danny, Danny!” They also came to school in suits and ties.
“We thought we would all have a day to dress up like Danny and we thought we would all come to school like Danny and sponsor Danny to show Danny that we love him, that we love him very much,” one student said, crying.
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