Another reason to love Dabo-long

Sep 24, 2011, 1:03 AM

A friend forwarded this to me, a teacher in Walhalla originally posted it I believe, thought I would share:

There is a young boy named Brock who has Down Syndrome. His mom teaches at James M. Brown Elementary in Walhalla. Brock loves the Clemson Tigers and Dabo Swinney. For the past few weeks, Brock has not wanted to go to school or focus on anything because he thought he needed to go talk to Dabo and get his Tigers straightened out, since they weren't playing so well. His mom ended up writing a letter to Dabo and telling him about how Brock is so obsessed with meeting him and getting to meet the team, etc., Lo and behold, Dabo not only wrote her back, but invited Brock to come to tour the West Zone, their offices, meet the team and everything. Plus, Kathleen, Dabo's wife, organized a birthday party for Brock and invited a bunch of kids, coaches' kids and others, and they had the party there at Clemson. Brock got to go to the game on Saturday against Auburn, and I know he had a great time.... But that is not the end of the story...I want you to read the rest of the story as written by my sister-in-law...

I just spoke with Mrs. Chappelear and asked her if Brock enjoyed the game-of course he did. She then went on to tell me that a few weeks ago she took Brock to his cardiologist and they did an ultra sound of his heart-the neat part about Brock's heart is that he actually has a cross on it-I saw the photo and you can see the heart as plain as day. Well, of course when she told Brock to look at it, all he said was "I told you" and so of course she asked what had he told-his response was "I told you I had God in my heart"-just wait it gets better.

When Brock went to visit Dabo, Mrs. Chap showed Kathleen and Dabo the picture of his heart-Kathleen immediately asked if she could keep the copy and use for the bookmark in her Bible-however, Dabo spoke up and said no, he would keep it in his pocket during the game on Saturday!

After the game Mrs. Chap emailed Dabo and told him how much everyone (especially) Brock enjoyed the game.-Dabo's response (which is outside of her classroom door) was "Gotta listen to a man that has God in his heart".

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- not that i needed another reason to love dabo, what a great story. i have heard countless other stories similar to that one, including several personal stories from the sweeney family.

i don't think i have ever wanted a coach to succeed like i do with dabo, but he could never win another game and i'd still have all the respect in the world for him. if anyone deserves to be successful, it's coach sweeney. if god is a football fan, or if there is any truth to the buddhist's karma teachings, we may be in for one heck of a ride!

- "Good guys win every once in a while....just when you think it can't happen again, good guys win" - Jimmy Buffett

Go Tigers, make a decsision to be great, and Beat the Noles!

Another reason to love Dabo-long

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Thanks for posting!

Great things await Dabo and this team-mark my words***

God bless Dabo***

Amen

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No one on this board dislikes Dabo as a person***

Why the #### do you want to take a good thing and turn it...

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