A High School Football Team Giving Roses To A Cheerleader Suffering From Leukemia Is The Greatest Thing You'll See This Week
CBS Sports – As we’ve seen so many times before, high school football is about more than just football — it’s also a way to bring a community together for a common cause. The team from Foothill High School in Palo Cedro, Calif., had a special cause to rally around.
As the team entered the field before its game against Spanish Springs, each player made sure to drop off a rose to cheerleader Ashley Adamietz who, according to KRCR-7, was diagnosed with leukemia last month.
The roses were orange, the color that represents leukemia awareness. According to her cheer coach, Adamietz has been going through daily chemotherapy treatment.
“I can’t thank you enough to both teams for making my first game one to remember and making me cry tears of joy,” she wrote. “I love Foothill High School.”
Talk about the inverse of that video from that Indianapolis High School, this is everything a high school experience should be. I can’t even imagine being a high school girl having to deal with all of the normal run of the mill problems every kid deals with and then top that off with leukemia treatment and STILL being out there on the field doing your best as a cheerleader. And you pair it with a bunch of high school football players somehow being considerate enough to have a tasteful display of support like that…it’s just a nice thing to see when the media spends so much time calling kids in that generation selfish or soft or whatever the latest trend piece says. As Buzzfeed famously put on every single headline for a year or two but rarely delivered on, my faith in high school humanity has been restored.
Good luck to Ashley and these guys the rest of the year, seems like a fair trade-off for them giving us the gift of embarrassingly staving off tears while in our cubicles (goddammit that I fall in that criteria now too).
(h/t Josh)