Editor's Note: The 6th Annual Sam Wyche Food Fight Bowl for Pickens County Meals on Wheels is almost here. All summer, we've been running guest editorials from figures in the sports world outlining why we should all help out this great cause. The last one in the series is from Clemson University Head Football Coach Dabo Swinney!
It’s Sam Wyche Food Fight Bowl week!! If you are a Tiger fan and have not donated to your favorite school (Easley or Pickens High Schools), then you are off scholarship. We only have “get things done right” kind of guys and gals around our Tiger den. It is “game on” for Pickens County Meals on Wheels! This game, is special because it is the sixth annual Sam Wyche Food Fight Bowl. The Flame and the Wave have battled each other for bragging rights since before Tiger/Gamecock games divided families.
Students from both schools are trying to out raise the other for the right to hold the “Ultimate Food Fight Trophy” for the next twelve months.
You need to suit up now and send your donation to: PCMOW, P.O.BOX 184, EASLEY, S.C., 29641.
You can donate on line, too. Just go to: www.pcmow.com and pick your school to support.
The summer training is over and it is time to see what the Pickens Blue Flame and the Easley Green Wave look like with this year’s edition.
The last year the Green Wave won on the field, but the Blue Flame won in the effort to financially support Pickens County Meals on Wheels. Remember, they serve approximately 250 shut-ins in every corner of Pickens County! Going into this sixth annual game, Pickens has the edge on the field by winning the first three years, but losing the last two outings. Pickens has out raised Easley by a margin of 4-0-1. The draw came a
couple of years ago when both schools raised over $30,000 each with the difference so close, no one was declared a loser.
Kick off is at 8:00 PM this Friday, August 23, 2013, at the Easley High Stadium. Get there early and don’t miss the special half time race between the Wave Grasshopper Mower and Flame Grasshopper Mower. This race has already become a tradition to see who can out yell the other side as the mowers and cheerleaders with Flags race to the other goal line.
This continues to be high school’s equivalent of our rivalry with the Gamecocks each year. Can you feel the adrenalin kicking in?
I hope every Clemson Tiger fan will give by going to the web site: www.pcmow.org and donate via credit card or Pay Pal.
You can also mail your contribution to: Meals on Wheels--P.O. Box 184--Easley, S.C. 29641. Designate the school (Easley or Pickens) you want your contribution to support.
Make sure you do it by deadline time: 12:00 noon on Friday, August 23rd .
Meals on Wheels needs your donations year round, so, support the Food Fight Bowl = GET ALL IN!!
Dabo Swinney
Head Coach -Clemson University
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