Students urge legislators to intervene after the state's high school athletic conference ruled against full-contact football this fall amid COVID-19 concerns.
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Crowd chanting
crowd, chanting,
thousands of football players
in Connecticut fighting to save
their season, a rally outside
state capital urging lawmakers
to intervene when the applet
conference is canceled.
The conference has once again
met with the state health the
permit, in the wake of the rally
to find common ground.
Three, a next guest were at that
rally:
senior quarterback, Lineman
Kevin Junior and his mom, and the
teams head coach
lets start with you.
How did this come together?
Thousands of high school
football players and families
together? How did this come to
gather
people set up the rally and
just started making noise?
It was spread on social media
coaches, told us about it.
Teachers telling me about it.
Tray was a big impact on me.
What is your argument?
What is the argument of I school football players about why you
football players about why you
should be playing this fall? The last play and in the
the last play and in the
certain play
will we had thousands of
football games for this season, Alabama has been playing for
Alabama has been playing for
four weeks or three weeks. What
does the state of the
Connecticut know that these
other states missing
Connecticut is more concerned
than other states? That is a good question.
That is a good question.
We need to deal strictly with
numbers comparative to other
states, and that needs to be the
bottom line.
This has become more in opinion
than a factor
will Utah Alabama Tennessee
several weeks of footballblooge?
What do you think will happen?
Will the state of Connecticut
listen to your son and others
across the state that want to
play football? What will happen?
What will happen?
The rally the lawmakers, the
governor hearing, what we had to
say and scheduling the meeting a
couple days later? I feel he did that to appease.
I feel he did that to appease
the masses hands. It is a high
risk. We are just praying they
make the right decision.
What do you do next?
What do high school football players do? Next
players do next?
We seem to be deserving this
Sean, what a huge turnout to try
to get high school football back.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-12.