Deaf High School Football Team on Track for Title and Fans’ Hearts

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🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The California School for the Deaf, Riverside’s football team is having a Hollywood-worthy season. They are the top team in their league and are on their way to clinching the title, not just by winning, but by dominating their opponents. Not too long ago, they suffered through seven straight losing seasons, and worse than that were the sneers and low expectations of rivals who assumed a team of deaf athletes could not prevail. Their quarterback calls them not just a team, but a brotherhood. We’ll talk to the school’s superintendent and reporter Thomas Fuller about the Cub’s championship season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.0	Welcome back to Forum.
0:36.2	I'm Mina Kim.
0:55.3	Every once in a while, a story comes along that prompts a reporter to drop everything. That's what New York Times reporter Thomas Fuller wrote yesterday. And for Fuller, that story was about a high school football team at the California School for the Deaf Riverside, which has had an undefeated season. And for the first time in the school's history, is on the verge of clinching the division championship. Thomas Fuller is with us now.
1:00.3	Thanks so much for joining us, Thomas. Hi, Mina. Good to be back. So you are the New York Times,
1:05.2	San Francisco Bureau Chief, so you jumped in your car, drove seven hours to profile this team. Can you tell us about them? What can you
1:12.1	tell us about the Cubs? Well, that's right. So, as you said, I'm a New York Times reporter,
1:17.2	but, and we're trained to be objective, and that's important, but I'm just going to put all of that
1:23.1	aside because I'm a super fan. I just absolutely had to go down there. I had a lump in my throat
1:32.1	the whole time I was down there. They lost for seven seasons and schools came to them. They play
1:40.7	all hearing schools. Schools would come to them, other football teams, there'd be some trash talk. There'd be, you know, certain teams got comments about, oh, we can't lose to a deaf team. And then this year, let me just read some scores from this year for the football team for the California School for the Deaf Riverside,
2:01.1	68 to 0, 46 to 0, 6422, 78, 18.
2:07.1	They are just romping.
2:09.7	They're doing a, they're doing a terrific job, and it's, you know, there's a lot going on.
2:14.3	It's a, sorry, I mean, I dropped out.
2:21.3	Yeah, you...
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