![]() ![]() ![]() The second force is the evolution of professional football itself. Their love is the first great force that alters the world’s perception of the boy, whom they adopt. What changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich, Evangelical, Republican family plucks him from the mean streets. And he has no serious experience playing organized football. When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play. ![]()
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