Star Potential

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I know this will sound wrong to some football fans, but I sincerely hope that such a courageous, selfless, clear thinking young man will not waste his life on something like football.

Not that I don't think that someone shouldn't offer him a big fat scholarship to play ball at a first tier college. I just think it would be an absolute shame to blow that much potential on the NFL. Not that it can't serve a purpose. Get the education. Make some dough. But he should make sure that it's just a stepping stone and means to a greater end.

You take that kind of potential and valiantly lead troops into battle. You take that kind of potential and make the world a safer place carrying a badge. You take that kind of potential and run a big company with responsibility and vision. And it would be a crying shame to waste a brain and a heart like that on ruining your body and ending up a 40-year old cripple just to make some old rich owner richer.

And I'd be saying the same thing if he was the super-talented lead in the school play and was thinking of running off to Hollywood to be in the movies after high school. All that stuff is entertaining, but the world has plenty of entertainers. What we are in dire need of is leaders.