NC State football helps build lasting memories for GiGi's Playhouse

well the first touchdown scored at carter Finley Stadium this

season wasn't from there thomas or devin carter or even

devin leary

It was from this precious little angel from Gigi's playhouse

A Raleigh based down syndrome empowerment center

It's all part of what N

C

State football celebrates as victory day

The event in its fourth year gives cognitively and physically

impaired individuals a chance to play football alongside their favorite

pack players

They got a chance to run out of the tunnel

work with the team in one on one drills and

oh yes of course they were scoring lots of touchdowns

Just a special night for the players to build these

relationships and head coach Dave Doeren says it warms his

heart

You know all these kids and not even kids adults

that are here with us tonight have lost access in

a lot of ways throughout their lives to different things

and tonight that's the opposite

It's about access

It's about having fun with great people and we're blessed

to have them here

It's it's awesome to be a part of this with

Gs

You never know how bad someone has it you know

what I'm saying So we all some people take stuff

for granted but we know these kids go through a

lot of stuff everything that we don't see you know

what I'm saying

So we just try to be blessings to everyone and

make everyone smile quickly going back to Gigi's playhouse Cyrus

Fagan who we heard from there his little sister he

told me actually has down syndrome so he knows what

this is like for these individuals and it was just

so special to see all these guys

They were all having so much fun

Doran told me

He said I don't know who has more fun

These guys out there or or these kids I think

they have some Wolfpack fans for life

Absolutely

How could you not be right to have a blast

Thanks Casey