Last Friday, the City of Lynn got some wonderful news: Thirty-four of its boys from age 11 to 13 won the Pop Warner C New England championship and became eligible to play for the national championship in Florida next week.Now, the bad news: Unless the organization raises $50,000 by Thursday, it might not be able to go.”This cannot happen,” Jeff Earp, a coach and booster within the organization, says succinctly.”There are 34 boys on this team, ages 11 to 13, and they live all over the city,” said Earp. “(We) all know families with boys on this team ? and (they) desperately need our financial support.”According to Earp, the Disney Sports division, which runs the event, needs the money in hand by Thursday. Unlike Little League, which pays for its participants to stay in Williamsport, Penn., for the World Series, Disney assumes no financial responsibility for the football players.The organization didn’t want to start raising money for the trip until it knew one of its teams was going (it was possible two of Lynn’s teams could have gone, but the B squad lost the regional final to New Haven).”It seems like an incredible task, to raise that kind of money, in five days, but year after year, other cities and towns have consistently succeeded with the support of their communities,” Earp said in an email sent out to various supporters and businesses in Lynn.”We aggressively started fundraising immediately (after last Friday’s victory over Worcester), and, to be honest, the results have not been very good to this point. There is a chance that these kids may be the first team not to get there. This cannot happen.”Earp stresses that the money the group is trying to raise is not for frivolities.”It is strictly for expenses,” he says.Even as their immediate future hangs in the balance, “(the players) work in the cold darkness of December, under the lights at the Meadow (Keaney Park).”They’ve relentlessly continued to work for the past four months,” Earp said.Earp says he knows that times are tough, and that “it seems like we are all continuously bombarded with requests for donations for various teams and organizations.”But,” he said, “we must find a way. Please make every effort to get this team to Disney, to compete for a national championship.”Lynn, he said, is the City of Firsts, but, “it can’t be the ‘first’ to not be able to send a team,” Earp said. “Please pick up the phone, spread the word, and help show how great our community is.”