A group of Vinemont football moms receives a $1,000 check for winning Friday Night Football Alabama Magazine's team moms contest. The prize was presented during halftime of last week's home basketball game against Good Hope. 

Football moms are extremely important to a program’s vitality.

Look no further than Vinemont for a perfect example.

The Eagles — more specifically, their extremely proud mothers — were selected by Friday Night Football Alabama Magazine for having the best team moms in the state following a contest that ran from July 1-Oct. 22.

Vinemont was the winner with 1,046 online votes, landing its booster club a donation of $1,000 from FNF Magazine and Samsung. The big check was hand-delivered during halftime of last week’s home basketball game against Good Hope.

“Vinemont’s team moms are passionate about their kids, period,” said Tracy Boland, a Vinemont teacher and mother of junior quarterback Garrett Boland, in a story on FNF Magazine’s website. “Just ask a VHS team mom if she is proud of her boy and she will more than likely reply, ‘I’m proud of all of them.'”

According to Boland, the contingent of moms have a range of responsibilities, including preparing and selling concessions, providing and serving pre-game meals, designing and selling team T-shirts and programs, recruiting business sponsors, cleaning up after games and offering a squad postseason banquet.

“There is no task too big or too small for these ladies to tackle,” Boland said.

Matt Norris, whose Eagles were 1-9 in his first season as head coach, told FNF Magazine the distinction was “our biggest win of the year.”