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“I can’t even focus on what the coach was saying. “When we got here from India, I didn’t know any English,” Lovepreet said. But their relationship with the game was always different. It was Lovepreet who introduced Anmol to football. It catches people’s attention if you play football and you are a Sikh.” “I would talk to other people, other Sikhs, and they would be surprised, ‘Oh dang, he plays football,’” he said. And he’s one of the few, other than his older brother Lovepreet, 23, he can ever recall seeing play football. In Santa Rosa, the Gurdwara Sahib of Santa Rosa temple where Singh worships has about 350 members.Īnmol Singh is the only Sikh on the Panthers football team. The 2020 Census was the first time Sikhs were counted as a separate ethnic group, a move advocates called historic. There are an estimated 500,000 Sikhs in the United States. It is a trade of one piece of protection, one link to a community, for another.īut no matter which piece of armor he’s wearing, the pads or the Kara, Singh never fully lets go of either piece of himself.Īnd he’s always a Sikh man. He only removes it when he puts on his football pads. It is a link to both God and to other Sikhs.
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The endless loop of the metal circle means Singh and his actions are bound to God. The bracelet, called a Kara, is a symbol of devotion and submission in Sikhism. It is a commitmentīefore each game and before each practice since he started playing football, Singh removes the metal bracelet from his right wrist and pulls his shoulder pads over his head. This device is unable to display framed content.