It’s every young football player’s fantasy scenario.

Last play of the game. Kickoff comes my way. Taking it all the way back the house.

For Gabe White, a Wisconsin 8-year-old with Down Syndrome, that dream came true recently. At the end of a freshman football game, Gabe’s older brother Owen and his Rhinelander High School teammates invited the youngster on the field to deliver the big play.

With Mosinee High School players diving all around him, Gabe ran as fast as his legs could take him into the end zone for a touchdown. He got a hero’s welcome by both teams, riding off the field on shoulders while giving out dozens of high fives.

“I wanted to make a special moment for him. (He’s a) special kid. All you have to do is hang out with him for 30 seconds and you see that,” Rhinelander coach Mark Apfel told WJFW. “When they went to go lift him up at the end that was the minute. That was the big minute for us and even some of our coaches were tearing up and that’s a weird thing because I haven’t seen that side of them.”

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