Wheaton N. football team teaches grade-schoolers
There's something exhilarating about getting to meet a real, live football star.
Maybe it's because they're just so big, as in bigger than life.
And famous.
Who, after all, hasn't heard of the Wheaton North High School football team?
Students at Longfellow Elementary School in Wheaton got to meet the big guys on the football squad, and even try out a few plays when members of the team gave a clinic at the school .
Some of the moves displayed by the younger athletes were quite impressive. Check out the flying catch by destined-to-be-the-next-Walter-Payton fourth-grade student Jonah Parker.
And when the lessons were over, there were plenty of autographs to go around.
Jonah Parker, a fourth-grader, makes a flying catch during a clinic Wheaton North High School football players gave for phys ed classes at Longfellow Elementary School in Wheaton.
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Joe Allen, a Wheaton North junior, demonstrates the three-point stance during the football clinic.
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Nick Borto, a Wheaton North junior, signs his autograph on the hand of Nicole Jung, while Bret Gavin, another fourth-grader, watches after the football clinic for the physical education classes at Longfellow Elementary School.
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