Paris Tigers Let Us Play Movement

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Published on September 20, 2020 -
Paris Tigers Let Us Play Movement

Paris Tigers Let Us Play Movement

Week at regionals.> from playoffs beginning in indiana, we go to illinois were fans, athletes and coaches alike are just waiting for sports to comeback at all.

Today, one community gathered around their town square to have their voices heard.

{nat} let us play!

Let us play!

It's a different chant then what the paris tigers football team is use to saying before they break huddle but their message is heartfelt.

We just want to play man.

We don't care if it's right now, we don't care if it's in the spring.

We're just going to do everything we can to get a season.

Whenever it is, just tell us and we're going to be ready.

Whether it's february, whether it's two weeks, whether it's christmas we're gonna be there.

We're gonna be ready and we're gonna be ready to go.

All we're really trying to do is bring awareness.

We're trying to bring awareness that a lot of states, 44 of them in fact, are getting to play and resume fall sports and fall athletics student athletes, coaches, and parents from across the land of lincoln converged on springfield saturday as a part of the let us play movement.

They want their voices to be heard by governor j.b.

Pritzker, who is continuing to push for high school athletics to resume in 2021, not in the fall of 2020.

But the let us play movement wasn't just in springfield.

The community of paris come together on saturday to show their support for their high school student athletes who have had to sit back and watch as communites like clinton and terre haute have resumed fall sports.

Clodfelde} 15 minutes away from our house people are playing high school football and the crowds are there and the bands are there and they resumed some normalcy.

You haven't seen any numbers of massive spikes or outbreaks and they've been allowed to do it.

And i think that's hard for communites like ours.

It's hard for players, it's hard for parents, families that are watching their memories kinda go by the way side.

And it's that fear of missing out that motivates jude and logan to get back on the field as quickly and safely as possible.

Sulliva} some of these guys only play football.

And, you know, it's their senior year, they'll miss it.

Like you can't get that back.

So, we're doing everything we can.

After missing my junior year in baseball this means a whole lot more now.

One more year.

Brantle} it's gonna be unlike anything ever before because, you know, past seasons you've always known you're gonna play and you always knew when you were gonna play and that you're gonna play.

But now it's, you don't know when you're gonna play again, so.

Every oppurtunity we're gonna get, we're going.

Green light, full speed we're not looking back.

I believe that we are gonna play and we're gonna keep pushing and we're

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