Portland Hooters hosts middle school team party
The Corbett football team arrives at Hooters on Hayden Island for their team party Saturday Nov. 9, 2013, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Michael Lloyd)
Former Corbett head football coach Randy Burbach, who lost his volunteer coaching job after parents learned he planned to hold the football team party at Hooters, celebrates with parents, family and team members at the restaurant Saturday Nov. 9, 2013, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Michael Lloyd)
PORTLAND, Ore. >> Hooters’ waitresses in orange shorts and tight tops lined up in two rows to cheer Corbett Middle School football players who arrived for their after-season party at the Jantzen Beach restaurant in Portland.
Fifteen of the team’s 23 members attended Saturday’s party which went on after the school district withdrew its support and fired the coach for refusing to move the celebration to another location.
Coach Randy Burbach thought Hooters was appropriate and refused to back down.
The Oregonian reports (http://bit.ly/1budLv6 ) most of the players kept their heads down and their hands in their lettermen jackets as their arrival was recorded on video cameras.
Hooters paid for the party and made a donation to the Corbett Middle School sports program.
The official awards party is Monday, with pizza.
