All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. They popped hot water bottles like overfilled birthday balloons, ripped apart a phone book with their bare hands and lifted two sixth-grade girls clinging to a steel bar. Don't give up. Tough times don't last.
Tough people do.
Wearing black warm-up suits with blue and red lightening bolts, Earle and Lemley performed a stream of maneuvers while speakers blared the pop song Unbelievable. Earle bent a bar of steel over his head. Lemley crushed an unopened pop can in his hand. Earle snapped a wooden bat across the back of his thigh. But the Power Team's best act, according to two sixth-grade boys, was breaking concrete planks that looked like the scalloped borders used to edge flower beds.