A wheelchair doesn't keep this athlete from the football field

On this Super Bowl Sunday, Mark Strassmann has found a high school player who's an MVP in anybody's book:

They're the Moose Lake Rebels, a high school football powerhouse in northern Minnesota where the frozen fields can feel as hard as any tackle.

For Danny Lilya, a 16-year-old junior, this is bliss. "I'd be in the stands wearing my Rebels jersey, and had my hair painted red and blue. And I'd watch and I'd think to myself, 'I wanna be out there.'"

But it's complicated: Danny came into the world with a separated spine. "I was born with a broken back," he told Strassmann. "So, I'm paralyzed from the waist down."


Source :- cbsnews

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