First grader makes free throw to give whole school day off

7:02 PM, Feb 8, 2013   |    comments
Sink the shot, everybody gets the day off.
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(USA Today) -- Joe Flacco never faced this much pressure.

According to the person who uploaded the above video to YouTube, first-grader Blake Harper of the Mater Dei School in Bethesda, Md., stepped to the free throw line last week with a chance to give his entire school the day off on Super Bowl Monday.

All Harper had to do was make the shot, something a Mater Dei seventh- and eighth-grader failed to do from 3-point range only moments before.

After his older -- and presumably stronger and taller -- schoolmates missed, Harper coolly sank his free throw to set off a raucous celebration.

(USA Today)