St. Louis Rams provide free tickets to high school players in Ferguson, Mo.

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[QUOTE]Football can't fix Ferguson, Missouri. But for a little while Saturday, the St. Louis Rams offered a small, albeit temporary, escape from the horrors unfolding on the streets of the city surrounding them.

Players from local high schools were given tickets to the Rams preseason game against the Green Bay Packers. The programs—McCluer High, McCluer North and McCluer South—received 75 tickets each to attend the game at the Edward Jones Dome.

"In light of everything going on it just kind of hit me," Rams manager of fan development, Kyle Eversgerd, told Robert Klemko of The MMQB.com . "I can't imagne with all that stuff going on, how tough it must be to practice. We were able to get them away from it all."[/QUOTE]

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