This team is a reality TV show.” – David Roundtree, special team’s coach for the LA Valley College Monarchs Boy, is it ever. The punter is a 31-year-old ex-bartender who has lost 40 pounds this year turning his life around. The field goal kicker is a 19-year-old autistic kid with a dynamite leg. Several players are ex-gang members, and two more are homeless – living in their cars eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and taking showers in the locker room facilities The Monarchs first-year head coach is Lester Towns,…
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