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stillers4me
12-11-2011, 09:03 AM
A knock on the door led her to a youth football coach holding her injured son. For Sonjia Wallace, it also slammed shut a different door.

There would be no more football for her son, not after someone had stepped on his eye, leaving it swollen and in need of medical care.

It took several trips to the doctor to fix the eye. It also took years before Wallace allowed her son to play organized football again. When she finally relented, she told him, "OK, Michael, you can play, but you make sure you run. Don't let nobody catch you."

Mike Wallace has done his best to follow through on an impossible mandate from his nervous mother. And if his sublime speed gets the New Orleans native where he ultimately wants to go, that anecdote may well become part of Wallace's lore..................

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ALLD
12-11-2011, 10:12 AM
Run! Forrest, Run!!!

SteelerEmpire
12-11-2011, 10:45 AM
Wow. The story of a lot of these guys that are in this league can be made into a movie. Their very fortunate to be in the position their in. God is certainly walking with them...