Saving for a rainy day: Gaelic football club recruits so it can keep playing -- in any weather.

From: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI) | Date: May 13, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Alex P. Kellogg

May 13--The guys sloshing around behind Riley Middle School most Tuesday and Sunday evenings have no intention of canceling because of a little weather.

They're playing Gaelic football, and the gray, rainy days you can expect each spring in Michigan are right up their alley. That kind of weather, especially this time of year, is almost as Irish as the game, they say.

Members of the Wolfe Tones Gaelic Football Club practice together every week on Riley's football field in Livonia from spring through fall. After weeks of cold, damp weather, they ...

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