The Detroit News. The Eastern Suburban Football League, which has 11 youth teams in Macomb and Wayne counties, voted earlier this week to suspend the traditional practice of slapping hands with the opposing team at the end of games. Football league officials say the decision was adopted as a precautionary measure over concerns about kids spitting on their hands and slapping hands with opposing teams. Some parents called the decision extreme. Five students have been diagnosed with bacterial meningitis in the past two weeks, and four people have died from it.
Bacterial meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
If they lose they spit on their hand. Parents and students will also plant a tree in Alex's memory at 5-7 p.m. Wednesday at Kantner Elementary School on Toepfer.