T-Mobile Powers Up Friday Night Lights To Give One Small Town a $2 Million High School Football Field Makeover

By ‘Friday Night 5G Lights,’ the Un-carrier together with Gronk is going to share its unique success in the rural America story to show how the small-town of America can come together and fight for the much-needed upgrade. 
 
T-Mobile is also offering $25,000 to 16 finalists and providing $5,000 toward 300 high schools’ football programs throughout the contest submission phase. 
 
Bellvue, Washington, August 2, 2024 3BL – It promises to be the battle of the titans next football season not on the football pitch alone but in the market as well. T-Mobile (NASDAQ: Through the T-Mobile Friday Night 5G Lights event, TMUS will revolutionise the Friday night lights for one lucky small town for the same way it revolutionised rural wireless service. The contest starts today and is for the thousands of small towns across the country that operate and thrive on high school football games. 
 
Hence, to create awareness about the company’s investments in rural America, T-Mobile will host Friday Night 5G Lights with new 5G coverage across nearly 500,000 square miles, and new stores, all in an effort to get people together in small towns with a community feeling that defines rural America. High school football is perhaps one of the best occasions with people exemplifying such spirit. 
 
Coming from west Texas, I am fully aware of what Friday night lights mean,’ said Jon Freier, President, T-Mobile Consumer Group. That is why I am so glad to have the opportunity to share and appreciate representatives of small towns from all over the country. 
 
There’s no better town that describes what Friday night lights is all about than Hickory, North Carolina – about an hour away from Charlotte and a recent winner of T-Mobile Hometown Grant. The Red Tornadoes are a defending NCHSAA 3A football team, Hickory has a tradition of good football as far back as the 1960s with “The Untouchables”, who did not allow a single point all season or in the 1964 state championship year. 
 
That history was what T-Mobile used to link four-time Super Bowl winner, Rob ‘Gronk’ Gronkowski with St. Louis current Red Tornadoes team to record videos on their small town football. Following hyping for the team and local community as well as performing route running, Gronk shared a conversation with University of Alabama’s Quarterback Jalen Milroe and Hickory High School Quarterback Brady Stober on the essence of High school football in America. 
 
On Friday nights all the things that set us apart disappear, On game day we are all the same, part of the team and part of the community with one over arching purpose and that is to give everything and be the best we can be,’ quipped Gronk. ‘’Oh, yes, we need a lot more Friday nights!’’ 
 
Friday Night 5G Lights will culminate in an extraordinary $2 million grand prize to upgrade one small town's pride and joy: a high school football field it has. The grand prize includes a $100,000 cash grant, a new teched-out scoreboard, 5G network upgrades, the ultimate tailgate party for the whole community, a 5G-powered halftime drone show and a special gift from Gronk: An Arabic Improvement of the weight room from GronkFitness. com. All sixteen semi-finalist teams will be granted a total amount of $25,000 of which will be divided equally between them. 
 
T-Mobile will select 16 finalists pursuant to the following criteria: The stories as to why their high school needs the grand prize tech upgrade; The possible effects of the enhancement of the school’s football field; The school spirit that the school has displayed through the application period as well as their social media activities. Lastly, the school that will be able to cut through the scrum, effectively promote the spirit and passion of the community, and get the community members to vote for the school in the social media platform of choice shall triumph. 
 
Friday Night 5G Lights will be established over the high school football season although the shortlist will be launched in first week of October and the winner be awarded during second week of December. It should be noted that the given publication was created as a result of participation in the contest – learn more about the contest on the website http FridayNight5GLights. com – each school/ community will be afforded the chance within the continuum of the entry period to demonstrate the unique selling points. 
 
For example, in one of those weeks, T-Mobile will give away a free seat cushion through T-Mobile Tuesdays - those hard bleachers you probably endured in high school suck! Therefore, T-Mobile has provided one of the best spots to view the shoot, and it is only for being their customer. Will an enterprising school perchance not upload a picture to the social media outlet from a game with hundreds of seat cushions raised in victory for a touchdown? Or something a zillion times better than that! 
 
We all know, and really do love, the fun of competition at T-Mobile,” said Freier. “We led competition to rural America over three years ago while bringing our very best and far more widespread 5G wireless service, packed with astonishing customer value on top of all the Un-carrier’s popular perks and then offered with Friday Night 5G Lights, we will put these spectacular towns in the national spotlight to show everyone why we 
 
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There are no restrictions to Friday Night 5G Lights so far as enrollment ; high schools in U. S. towns with a population of 150,000 or less are qualified to participate. To be in the game, school representatives (these could be administration, teachers, coaches, etc) can come in for an ultimate technological makeover for the high school field. You only have to upload a video and describe why your town’s high school football field needs an eagle transform like the Un-carrier. 
 
Everyone in the country will be able to vote the favourite finalist town in the grand draw once the 16 finalists are out in the earlier October. 
 
The contest starts today and it will end on the September 20, 2024 so you better hurry up. It's game time, people! 
 
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And every high school which participates in Friday Night 5G Lights is also participating in T-Mobile’s “$5K Fridays” weekly sweepstakes for a chance to win $5,000. During the span of August 1 to September 20, T-Mobile will be picking fifty schools every week , making it three hundred schools in total, to be rewarded $5,000. Schools, students, parents teachers association and the whole community can also undergo the same activity on Instagram with prospects of increasing their high school’s chance of earning extra cash for necessities such as new equipment, gear, or transportation costs.