The Start

             Football has always been my love and passion. Its intensity and leadership building skills, lights my fire everyday. It all started when I was a little kid, about six or seven years old. Most of the men and some of the boys in my family played football. It was our tradition to play football. I was born into the sport and found the love for the game on the sidelines of my uncles highschool football games. He was my role model and took me everywhere he went, never leaving me behind.

 

This is me as a freshman in highschool. (My mom took this picture)

          
  I started off as a water boy for his team and a member of the YMCA. We had many different sports supported by our YMCA, so I joined the flag football team. My uncle had brought me up through him and taught me alot of things that has made me today. He, at that time, was a very gifted athete who could have went to the league. His will to want to get better carried on to me, because he fell out of love with the game.
            As a member of the YMCA flag football team and a waterboy for my uncles high school. I learned the game from two perspecitives. I learned from playing experiences and watching from the sidelines. My unlce always told me " Boy count your blessings, because not everyone is gifted like us." I took that to heart and I thank to GOD everyday for blessing me.