From the Wicked Local Walpole website:

Like the Patriots visiting the White House after each of their Super Bowl wins, the undefeated Super Bowl champion Walpole High Rebels walked in to the school committee meeting Monday night to get their praise.
    The committee gave a heartfelt thank you to the room full of football players for their 41-21 victory over Mansfield High at Gillette Stadium Dec. 6, which secured the Division 2 Eastern Massachusetts Super Bowl title.
    Members offered the young athletes advice for the future.
    "We’re proud of you today, and we expect more of you in the future," said Chairman Nancy Gallivan.
    She told the players to build on their success on the football field and become better people in the future by using their confidence in job interviews and other endeavors.
    "The best moment in life is succeeding in high school," said the visibly moved Gallivan.
    Committee member Dot Bergen added, "You now take on the role of being the role models for all the future generations" of Walpole football players.
    Head Coach Danny Villa thanked the committee, his assistant coaches, the fans and parents for their support.
    "It takes a lot of commitment from a lot of people," he said.
    Villa said he got a sense that the entire town was truly behind his team by the amount of support they received throughout the season and especially at the Super Bowl.
    The school committee echoed Villa’s thanks to parents.
    "They are the ones that probably got up at 5:40 in the morning if you needed a ride to Gut Camp (football players’ preseason conditioning program)," Gallivan said.
    Superintendent Lincoln Lynch lauded the team’s complicated offensive schemes in the Super Bowl, operating in no-huddle packages – a strategy used to speed up play and confuse defenses. The team even used the Wildcat formation, which has become popular in the NFL this season; this is when a running back or another speedy player lines up in the quarterback position to confuse the defense.
    Lynch happens to be the former assistant school superintendent in Mansfield – the Rebels opponent on Super Bowl Saturday.
    Senior Rebel co-captain Adam Riegel thanked the school committee for backing the program, attributing some of the team’s success to the excellent field conditions at the Turco Field complex.
    The lineman called his post-Super Bowl experience a "whirlwind tour."
    "Everyone’s congratulating us from all angles," Riegel said.
    "The experiences have been amazing for all of us," he added. Play at Gillette Stadium two years in a row was “a dream come true."
    Walpole lost last year’s Super Bowl to Bishop Feehan.
    Showing that "Rebel Pride" never dies, former Walpole High football players and current school committee members Michael Berry and Andrew Zitoli congratulated the team for reclaiming the title – the Rebels’ seventh.
    "I’m really glad you guys are going to be able to put a Super Bowl ring on your finger," Berry said.
    He congratulated Villa for recently winning the Division 2 Coach of the Year award. Villa joined the team as an offensive line coach when Berry was a senior.
    Berry also singled out longtime Rebel coach Barry Greener.
    "I know he probably has more Super Bowl rings than he has fingers," Berry said.
    "I’m proud that you guys carried on the legacy," Zitoli said. He was quick to point out that the young athletes have "a lot more to do with their lives than win Super Bowls."
 

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