Narbonne raising money for championship rings

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Narbonne funds.jpgJust like their counterparts at San Pedro, the Narbonne football team is looking to raise funds to buy championship rings after winning the school's first upper-division L.A. City Section title in school history.

Narbonne tied Marine League rival San Pedro, 21-21, on Dec. 13 at the Coliseum in  the L.A. City Section final, and Coach Manuel Douglas is asking for help in raising money to buy championship rings, patches for the letterman jackets and to host a celebratory banquet for his team.

Below is a copy of the letter Douglas sent out to Narbonne boosters:

Dear Friends of Narbonne High School Gauchos Football Team,

Miracles do happen.  For the first time in Narbonne High School's 83 -year history, they are now the 2008 Los Angeles City Section CIF Football Champions!  This was achieved by overcoming insurmountable odds.  Wow!  This team has the heart of a lion.

Our goal with the Narbonne High School Football program is to develop players with character, integrity and academic excellence, while providing our youth with an alternative to gangs and drugs.  This formula will provide a foundation for future success in life.  Our team academic grade point average is above a 3.00. and our graduates have gone on to the finest academic universities in the world.

It is with pleasure that I am pleased to announce that I will lead the effort to reward the players with one of the ultimate prizes in football, Championship Rings. In addition we hope to award championship Patches together with a nice football banquet.  This will not be possible without the generous tax-deductible donations from our community.

Let us all come together as we attempt to accumulate $30,000 in tax-deductible donations to make this once in a lifetime dream come true for these fine young men.  We have already received commitments for over $3,700 towards this dream.  GO GAUCHOS!!



Sincerely,      
Manuel
Douglas
Head Coach

www.narbonnegauchofootball.com

Make Checks Payable to: 
Narbonne High School Booster Club
Attention:  Melissa Miller, Athletic Director

The South Bay certainly enjoyed a memorable season in football this season with Narbonne and San Pedro sharing the City title and with Serra and Mira Costa also making CIF finals.

2 Comments

Congratulations to both Narbonne & San Pedro on their Co-City Championship. I have minimal problem with tie games in the regular season but for the City Section to have no overtime for the Title Game is ludicrous.

I would hope that one day all levels of football would adopt the NFL style OT for playoff & championship games. My only proviso there would be that each team would be guaranteed one offensive shot each with the ball.

The NFL type of overtime is the real & complete game of football, not the ridiculous no field position or special teams truncated version that the NCAA has made so popular.

And we wont even talk about playing OT in the City Section Playoffs EXCEPT for the Championship Game... where does THAT concept come from?

Good for Narbonne in trying to get the money to get their boys rings,patches and to have a banquet.......but $30,000 dollars????WOW!!!! that seems to me like a chance in hell to get that amount of money in a timely manner!! With the way the economy is going Narbonne might want to down size to maybe just the rings. I know Pedro is still $2000.00 dollars short of their goal of $15,000.If fact they have already been sized for their rings since the remaining money is not that much out of reach...Good Luck Narbonne on your quest for $30 thousand!!!! Better start baking those cookies and start making those signs for car washes soon!!!

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