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A deaf football team vanquishes opponents and stereotypes

Deaf football team

Underestimate the Alabama School for the Deaf (ASD) if you want. They like it that way. You won’t know what hit you until you’re facedown in the turf, inhaling the scent of fresh-mown grass and Alabama soil, staring at the final scoreboard, which illuminates your flawed logic. ASD, billed as “home of the champions” and winner of four national football titles against hearing and non-hearing teams, is one of only 30 deaf high schools in the US playing 11-man football. The team shows up ready to compete.

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Carmen Sisson December 16, 2008 August 18, 2014Recent Bylines Alabama, Christian Science Monitor, deaf, education, football, sports, Talladega 0
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