Paradise Bobcats Football Team Gives California Town Hope After Fires

Space_Time · Nov 18, 2019

A feelgood story. How amazing is this? How far will they get in the playoffs?

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/08/7777...l-team-gives-california-town-hope-after-fires

Paradise Bobcats Football Team Gives California Town Hope After Fires
November 8, 20194:53 PM ET

ERIC WESTERVELT
The Bobcats average more than 400 rushing yards a game. They finished the regular season undefeated.
Eric Westervelt/NPR
A year after one of the country's most destructive wildfires ravaged Paradise, Calif., just 3,000 people have returned full time to a town that was once home to 27,000 . Many are commuting to school in Paradise from surrounding cities and towns, including almost all of the town's high school football team, the Bobcats. The team is undefeated, and is about to find out if they are making it to the playoffs.

"The field itself is the most thing that's felt like home since the fire," says senior Kasten Ortiz, who plays right tackle on the offense. "The burnt stumps... some of the buildings that haven't been cleaned up yet. You see just flat lots in town. But I think when we step foot on this field and we see the green grass, we see each other padded up, it feels right at home. And, you know, we feel like a family out here."
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