The actual game isn’t until December. And the goal is to show that “the gateway to the pros opens in the port city.”
) - A news conference is scheduled this morning at Ladd Peebles stadium to announce plans for the HBCU pigskin showdown.
84 of the top NFL draft-eligible players from historically black colleges and universities will gather here to play in front of scouts from the NFL and other leagues. “There’s not a lot of NFL scouts that are turning down that road to go to Grambling as much as they may be going to LSU. So we’re trying to bridge that gap and this is a movement that has been happening here for the last say 3-4 years,” Executive Director Chris Williams.“It’s a great opportunity for them for a kid to get a second look at the NFL you know then if they don’t make it, you got the XFL then you got the CFL.
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