{"id":21855,"date":"2013-06-10T16:18:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T20:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21855"},"modified":"2013-06-10T16:18:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T20:18:46","slug":"youth-football-league-raising-money-to-buy-better-helmets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21855","title":{"rendered":"Youth Football League Raising Money To Buy  Better Helmets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY LEON B. CREWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentinel Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unity Youth Football, a member of American Youth Football, Incorporated, an NFL partner, will be hosting a raffle to raise funds for new helmets.<\/p>\n<p>The lucky winner will receive a 2012 Chevrolet Cobalt, and <strong>Councilman Frank Reddick<\/strong> will select the winning ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Unity Youth Football Conference Executive Director, <strong>Orlando Gudes<\/strong>, said they have been mandated to have all of their current helmets replaced before the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have always put the safety of our athletes first, and when a new helmet was developed to help prevent concussions, we were told to get them for our players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided to start now raising the $25,000 we will need to replace the helmets of our four associations. That means close to 500 helmets will be replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gudes<\/strong> said the new helmets will be specially fitted for the players on July 27<sup>th<\/sup>, and they will have a brain pad and an upper and lower mouthpiece that holds the jaw in place.<\/p>\n<p>The four associations under Unity Youth Football are the Highland Pines Falcons, Riverview Tide, Copeland Saints, and Jackson Heights Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the raffle are $10.00 for one, $15.00 for two, ad $25.00 for three. You can also purchase 12 tickets for $100 to increase your chances of winning the car.<\/p>\n<p>You do not need to be present to win, and please contact <strong>Patricia McClendon<\/strong> to purchase tickets at (813) 385-2158.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer Unity Youth Football, a member of American Youth Football, Incorporated, an NFL partner, will be hosting a raffle to raise funds for new helmets. The lucky winner will receive a 2012 Chevrolet Cobalt, and Councilman Frank Reddick will select the winning ticket. Unity Youth Football Conference Executive Director, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}