Undefeated Pleasant Beach FB team works this weekend to help community

Pleasant Beach football players gathered Saturday to help clean up the town after Hurricane Sandy.
They gathered in the locker room, most wearing bright red sweatshirts that read Beach Football, just like they do most weekends in the fall. But there was no game Saturday in Point Pleasant Beach.

Instead, there was debris. It was everywhere in their town, and the players on the high school football team had come to clean it up.

Dressers. Mattresses. Couch after sea-water-drenched couch. They knocked on doors and asked if their neighbors needed help, and when they were told yes, they marched into the flood-ravaged living rooms and garages to carry the ruined remains to the curb.Stereos. File cabinets. Boxes filled with family treasures. They would clear out a house in 20 minutes, a chore that could have taken the homeowners days, then move down the street to the next one. Then the next one.

In the midst of a perfect season Point Pleasant Beach football cleans up the damage from Hurricane Sandy This was supposed to be the dream season for Point Pleasant Beach football. Last Saturday they defeated Keyport to improve to 8-0, their best start in school history. And then Hurricane Sandy swept through New Jersey, damaging home after home along the Jersey Shore. So this Saturday, the Point Pleasant Beach football players went door to door to help with their town's recovery. (Video by Michael Monday/The Star-Ledger)

Some of the players had done the same thing at their own homes earlier in the day. They still came. Others hadn’t even seen their houses, which were trapped in the disaster zone near the ocean. They still worked. The cheerleaders heard what the team had planned and came, too, replacing their pompoms with work gloves.
“It’s really not about football now,” the star running back, Danny Tighe, said. “It’s about our town.”
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There is also a video at this site. http://www.nj.com/hssports/blog/football/index.ssf/2012/11/point_beach_football_players_pitching_in_to_help_community_clean_up.html

Good on them!

In addition hundreds of marathoners are wearing backpacks and running supplies through Staten Island.

@darrenrovell: Amazing pic of NYC would-be marathoners by Staten Island ferry going to volunteer http://t.co/MBVWionT (via @runnersworld)
The hotel the Pittsburgh Steelers were supposed to stay in got its power back, but they opted to fly in and out in one day as planned. They wanted to leave the rooms for evacuees.
All sports related people aren't stupid or bad.