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4-Year Old FSU Fan Grayton Grant Starts Lemonade Stand to Buy Out Willie Taggart

Timothy RappSep 16, 2019

College football fans are a...unique bunch.ย 

Florida State fanย Daniel Grant and his son, Grayton Grant, started a lemonade stand inย Tallahassee to raise funds for head coachย Willie Taggart'sย $17 million buyout so the school could dismiss him, according to ESPN.

Per that report, "The effort raised $241โ€”including $100 from one personโ€”that will be matched by Grayton's father, Daniel Grant. Grant plans to send a $482 check to Seminoles Boosters Inc. on Monday."

The Grants also sent the boosters a note signed by Grayton.

"I am tired of losing football games and being made fun of at school for being a Seminole fan," it read. "At four, I am already starting to gravitate towards the color orange. You don't want that for an innocent kid like me."

The Seminoles are justย 6-9 under Taggart and 1-2 to start the 2019 season, so frustrations emanatingย out of Tallahassee aren't surprising. But starting a lemonade stand with your four-year-old son to pay off a college football coach's buyout figure is certainly a new, and bizarre, way for a disgruntled fan to voice his displeasure.ย