CAMARADERIE RIVAL GANGS PLAY A FRIENDLY GAME OF FOOTBALL.Byline: Jason Kandel Staff Writer SAN FERNANDO - It was a day of punishing heat and a brutal upset Saturday for one football team from Pacoima. First, it was unknown whether their challenger, Barrio bar·ri·o n. pl. bar·ri·os 1. An urban district or quarter in a Spanish-speaking country. 2. A chiefly Spanish-speaking community or neighborhood in a U.S. city. Van Nuys, was going to show. Van Nuys' team captain had turned himself in to police Friday because he had an outstanding warrant. Then, in the second half, Pacoima key player Jose ``Spooky'' Lopez, 28, had to be carried off the field with a broken ankle. And finally, after 90 minutes in near 100 degree heat, Barrio Van Nuys' shut out Pacoima, 6-0, in a tackle football game that afternoon at San Fernando High School San Fernando High School, located in San Fernando, California, is a secondary school that is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school colors are black and gold. All girl teams are referred to as Lady Tigers, all boy teams simply as Tigers. . The game was the first between the two neighborhoods in several years and took place at a time when gang tensions were flaring in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . William ``Blinky'' Rodriguez, the executive director of Communities in Schools, helped organize Saturday's event, and State Assemblyman Tony Cardenas, D-Mission Hills, tossed the coin to determine who would kick off. It was all about the game: Eleven-man teams. Free substitutions. Two referees. No helmets or shoulder pads. Trophies all around. It was an intense, high energy game. ``It took a lot to put this game together. It takes both gangs to agree on even looking at each other,'' said veteran Barrio Van Nuys member Bogart Rios, a beefy 250-pound middle linebacker. ``If this was a gang showdown, we wouldn't be coming like this. It'd be who has the biggest guns and who's going to shoot first.'' BVN BVN Basketball Verband Nordwestschweiz (basketball association, Switzerland) BVN Bolsa de Valores Nacional, SA (Guatemala) BvN Birkhoff-Von Neumann Decomposition BVN Bureau Voucher Number BVN Broadband Virtual Network poked holes in Pacoima's defense. Their quarterbacks outgunned Pacoima's quarterbacks. Their receivers outran out·ran v. Past tense of outrun. their receivers. Two referees from the Los Angeles County Probation Department The Los Angeles County Probation Department provides services for those placed on probation within Los Angeles County, California, USA. Robert Taylor is the current Chief Probation Officer. The department is the largest probation department in the world[1]. officiated. The LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. sent a patrol car to monitor the game. There were some hard tackles but no overt hostilities on the field Saturday. ``It's just good football,'' said referee Robert LaCarra, a deputy county probation officer and Chicano Studies teacher at Los Angeles Valley College LAVC redirects here. For the software library, see libavcodec. The university is adjacent to Grant High School. Often called "Valley College" or simply "Valley" by those who frequent the campus, it opened its doors to the public on September 12, 1949, at which time the campus was , during a break at half time. ``There have been no cheap shots. They get up right away. They're tough guys.'' Pacoima's team was made up of members of allied gangs and their friends. `We gotta go down the middle,'' said Lopez, 28, 15 years in Pacoima Brownstones, before he took his game-ending fall. ``We have to do more blocking.'' The game was a success for Victor ``Little Bones'' Villa, 26, of Barrio Van Nuys, who threw a 40-yard touchdown pass early in the game to Emilio ``Junior'' Sandoval. He extended a hand to any rival neighborhood. ``Any neighborhood that's willing to play, we'll play,'' said Villa. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Rival gang members and others assemble Saturday for a photo and a peaceful game of football at San Fernando High. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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