BAY SHORE, NY — It was a team effort to make an 11-year-old Bay Shore boy’s dream come true during a youth football game Sunday. In a heartwarming moment captured during the game, the team’s captain, Jackson Wyss, who has cerebral palsy, got the chance to score his first touchdown thanks to a little help from his team.
Joe Rao, president of Bay Shore Youth Football team, said the team had been planning to let Wyss, who has been captain for about seven years, score a touchdown during the last game of the season.
Unfortunately, he is scheduled to have surgery Tuesday, so Rao and the team wanted to move up Wyss’ big moment during Sunday afternoon’s game against Lindenhurst.
He consulted the coach of the Lindenhurst team, who was “more than cooperative,” Rao said.
During the end of the fourth quarter, the ball was handed off to Wyss, who was then pushed in his wheelchair by a fellow member of his team while the Lindenhurst players dove at his feet. After scoring the touchdown, Wyss received cheers from the whole crowd.
Wyss has a limited vocabulary, Rao said, but they were still able to tell how excited he was to score his first touchdown.
“You know he’s having fun, he was screaming the whole time,” he said. “He was very happy, he was definitely excited.”
Rao described Wyss as a “good boy” and a “fighter.”
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“I always say the reason he’s there is to show the other kids that can play and are able-bodied to have the heart that he has,” Rao said.
In addition, he described Wyss as a “funny kid” and, in some ways, a typical 11-year-old.