It's a huge thing for us. We really needed something that wasn't going to break down. It'll be more efficient to have commercial laundry facilities, too.

The beads become, very literally, something they can hold onto.

This is so simple, but it's brilliant.

That's difficult when you've got to go to work the next day and you have only a couple of changes of clothes or when your kids go to school and you've got to make sure they have clean clothes. Having a laundry machine that works and is readily available is really important.

Six months after Katrina, Beaver Productions is back at its original address. There's no one else around us within two miles, but we're here.

I think we had every coach say something to us. We had a meeting on the field. We had a meeting back there (in the clubhouse). We had meetings everywhere. Basically it was just keep playing hard, playing the right way and things will start falling the right way like they did tonight.