badger
5/15/2009, 09:35 AM
A special congrats to this graduate - Jammal Brown. (http://www.soonersports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/051409aaa.html)
Before Brown's mother, Zola, passed away in 1999, her son, the sure-fire bet for football stardom, promised that he would become the first in his family to earn a college degree.
"Just going to college was being a role model in my family," said Brown, now the left tackle for the New Orleans Saints. "Getting a degree, that would be the ultimate."
It was a long shot too. As a partial qualifier out of Lawton's MacArthur High School, Brown wasn't sure he'd get through more than a semester or two. The promise kept him going.
"I always told my mom I'd get (the degree)," he remembered.
Boomer Sooner to all grads! :D
Before Brown's mother, Zola, passed away in 1999, her son, the sure-fire bet for football stardom, promised that he would become the first in his family to earn a college degree.
"Just going to college was being a role model in my family," said Brown, now the left tackle for the New Orleans Saints. "Getting a degree, that would be the ultimate."
It was a long shot too. As a partial qualifier out of Lawton's MacArthur High School, Brown wasn't sure he'd get through more than a semester or two. The promise kept him going.
"I always told my mom I'd get (the degree)," he remembered.
Boomer Sooner to all grads! :D