“He Proved Them Wrong”
They told him he wasn’t good enough. He was too slow and too small to compete with men who were bigger and faster. The only thing the coach said was,
“You’re not good enough to play for us. Turn in your
helmet.” He packed everything he owned into a 6 foot
trailer and drove his Ford Pinto station wagon back to
Oklahoma. Faith in God had sustained him in the dark
days when he prepared to get on with life. Then the
phone rang. Another team was interested in him. By
the time he retired from the game in 1989 he had set
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