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Home sweet home

Print | Comments () Posted by Chris Forsberg, Boston.com Staff November 8, 2007 12:00 PM

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Administrators in Woburn today confirmed that the Tanners will host their first Thanksgiving Day football game in more than four years when Winchester visits on Nov. 22.

It will be the first-ever home game for the 28 seniors on Woburn's roster.

In the preseason, Woburn 22d-year head coach Rocky Nelson said the lack of a home field hasn't bothered his team because they haven't know any better.

"Those kids have been without a home field for four years," said Nelson. "We make the trek over here every single day and none of them ever complain. The only one who complains is me We tell them what time to be ready and here they are. When we have double sessions in the summer, they make the walk four times. They just don't know any better."

Senior captain Danny McLaughlin admitted before the season that a Thanksgiving Day home game might even rival leading his team to a Super Bowl during his sophomore year in 2005.

"To be able to walk outside the school and play a real home game, that would be amazing," said senior quarterback Danny McLaughlin, one of five captains on this year's squad along with Mark Dwyer, Ryan Ferrone, Matt Ramos, and Matt Welch.

"If we get to play a home game on Thanksgiving Day, that would be the most amazing moment."

You can read more about the field situation in today's Globe NorthWest.

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