As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.
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As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football.
In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.
For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.
I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track.
I grew up playing football since the day I could walk; some of my greatest memories of childhood are playing touch football in all kinds of weather with my best friends. That's a part of the American experience that no corporation can destroy.
I didn't play organized football until I was in the seventh grade. Up until that point, I only played at recess and in the backyard.
I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there - resiliency, how to play against older players, and how to put up with or dodge kicks.
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.
I'm very close in age to my older brother, and we had a field at the end of the road where we could run around, climb trees, play football.
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