Cross-town high school rivals in Rutherford County came together to support a teenager who's recovering from a severe brain injury.
Students from across the district were at Blackman High School Saturday – not in school colors, but united under one color and one cause – to help Siegel High School student Baylor Bramble.
Baylor has been recovering from a severe brain injury after taking a hard hit during a football game last fall.
"Whenever he first went down, I just had a feeling something was wrong," said Chase Shelton, Baylor's best friend. "Everyone else just thought it was a concussion, but I just had like this weird feeling."
Since that day Baylor has been in the hospital.
"We'll have good days where he'll do things with movement or sip through a straw or try to speak and then we'll have several days where that's not possible," said his father, David Bramble.
As Baylor battles to get better students and people he's never even met him are working to help him.
"Just seeing all the rival schools and different churches and everything come together for Baylor is really cool," said Shelton.
Students from Blackman High School hosted a festival in his honor, with all proceeds going to Baylor and his family.
"He would…he would never believe all this," Bramble said.
Baylor’s doctors said he would finally be going home on Wednesday.
"It'll be the first time we've been together as a family in six months," said David Bramble. "We're just so thankful."
He'll continue to recover in a community that loves him.
