The Gainesville Tornadoes always play road games.
As a juvenile correction facility for felony offenders in Texas, Gainesville fields a basketball team that visits other schools for games a few times a year. This means never hearing cheers from its own fans.
When Gainesville made a trip to play against Vanguard College Prep in Waco, the Tornadoes were in for a surprise. Some Vanguard players had arranged for the crowd to root for Gainesville, just so those players could experience fan support.
Steve Hartman of CBS News, who specializes in finding and telling these types of inspiring stories, documents this special example of sportsmanship:
