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Deaf students' banana bread became a Lincoln football tradition

Students in the Rhode Island School for the Deaf life-skills program bake for every game day. Players met the bakers on the field before a win.

Verified · Source: NBC 10 WJAROct 19, 2026 · 1 min read
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Illustrative photo of a banana loaf. This is not bread baked by the Rhode Island School for the Deaf, and the students are not pictured. Andy Li / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0

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Students in the life-skills transition program at the Rhode Island School for the Deaf bake banana bread for the Lincoln Lions before every game. The players met the bakers on the field ahead of a win, and the greeting has become part of how the two groups know each other.

The bread shows up on game day. The meeting on the field is what turned a delivery into a friendship the team talks about.

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