(La Porte, IN) - The National Champion Pop Warner football team from La Porte is home, and was recognized during Monday night’s city council meeting. Each of the players was introduced by their head coach, Mike Nelson, before a packed council chambers at La Porte City Hall.

 

“It was a heck of a run.  I couldn’t be more proud of these guys,” he said.

 

The 10U Greater La Porte Slicers went 8-0 during the regular season, then won six consecutive games in the postseason tournament to win the national title last Friday in Orlando, Florida.  The team defeated the Norristown Bengals from Pennsylvania 39-6 in the "Super Bowl" game. The Slicers made it to the national semi-finals last season.

 

Rush Loftus, a member of the offensive line, told the city council “good team work” was among the keys to their championship season. Nelson held up the football shaped trophy during his brief presentation. All 19 members of the squad along with Nelson and his assistance coaches posed for pictures with the city council and Mayor Tom Dermody while applauded by members of the audience.