Courtesy of the Addison Cowboys
Cannonball!
The 11U Addison Cowboys football team was going to swim Saturday, like 20 delirious boys who might never see a pool again. Goodness, they’d earned it. With three victories in seven days at Orlando’s Camping World Stadium — home of the NFL Pro Bowl — they’d captured the club’s first Pop Warner national championship, besting the Enon (Pennsylvania) Eagles 18-0 in Friday’s title game.
How good were the Cowboys — all but a handful of them from West Suburban Addison, and nearly all of them sixth-graders — this season?