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| Photo courtesy of the Tee Cotton Bowl |
How about the Pope blessing a Louisiana high school football game?
That's what Pope John Paul II did after watching an NFL Films 10-minute video on the Tee Cotton Bowl that turns thirteen years old on Friday when Ville Platte squares-off with Sacred Heart.
The Tee Cotton Bowl was founded in 1999 by Tim Fontenot, a physical therapist in Villa Platte. Fontenot will join me on High School Football America Thursday night to talk about how the game has galvanized his racially divided Louisiana town of 8,000.
Ville Platte is a small town with strong Cajun and Creole roots where the news is still broadcast in French twice a day. The schools are actually divided by a train track.
Ville Platte is the town's public school where the students are predominantly African-American and Protestant. Sacred Heart is a private school with students that are predominantly Caucasian and Catholic.
The reason the game is called the Tee Cotton Bowl is "tee" in Cajun/Creole means small and the game is named after college football's Cotton Bowl. Ville Platte also has an annual cotton festival.
Fontenot's interview on High School Football America can be heard live on the ArtistFirst Worldwide Radio Network on the internet at 7 P.M. Eastern Time.
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