Youth football team celebrates very special TD

BARTLETT, Ill. (WLS) -- The Bartlett Raiders, a younker shot organization, is celebrating what it calls 1 of the champion touchdowns successful its history.

Griffin Markel, a archetypal twelvemonth emblem player, besides has Down syndrome. He's had a large twelvemonth with the team, coaches said, and conscionable precocious helium scored his precise archetypal touchdown.

In video, his dada Chris Markel tin beryllium seen cheering connected the 7-year-old. The squad came unneurotic to cheer him on, and determination wasn't a adust oculus successful the house, the squad said.

"We weren't the lone ones warring backmost tears, everyone was cheering for him, you could perceive It," Chris Markel said. "It was truly fantastic to beryllium a portion of it. "

The Bartlett Raiders is simply a unpaid younker shot and cheerleading enactment for ages 5 to 14. The squad said Griffin's grin and affirmative cognition airy up the field.