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First win since 2008 emotional for Colorado football team

By Dan Mohrmann on September 08, 2014 state news Print

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Adams City High School head coach Dan Jajczyk, center, led Adams City to its first win on the field in five seasons on Friday. (Kai Casey/CHSAANow.com)

Sports are all about historic moments.

The moments that are remembered the most are historic championships, winning streaks or individual feats. But those aren't the ones that count the most. If a team were to collect state championships for multiple years in a row, it may be a historic run, but the feeling of victory is simply repeated again and again.

For a group of football players at Adams City High School, they were able to experience a historic moment that they will never forget.

You'd have to go back — way back — to 2008 to find the last time that the Eagles took the field and walked away with a victory. A quick glance at the record books would show Adams City finishing the year with a win in 2011, but in reality it was a 34-14 loss at the hands of Niwot that was later ruled a forfeit.

No, it was Friday, Aug. 29, 2014 that the Eagles got their first on-field win in nearly six years as they topped Thornton 21-8.

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