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Deaf Football Team Shatters Stereotypes

This football season, the Fighting Spartans will feel the crunch of the contact and see the excitement of the crowd as it cheers the team to victory. But the one thing the team won't be able to do, unlike so many other high school football teams, is hear the crowd's roar -- because the all the players are deaf. The Fighting Spartans are the football team for the Ohio School for the Deaf in Columbus, Ohio. The school is too small to field the 11 players that usually compose a football team, so...Full Story
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