I was talking with a client the other day who lives in Mississippi. He said Malcolm Butler is the pride of the state. Read this story all the way through, as I did with my kids, and you’ll know why.
The coach plunked down in his seat, immersed in the navy, electric green and wolf gray of the Seattle Seahawks. Alonzo Stevens is not a bashful man, so he shook hands with his Super Bowl-viewing neighbors and declared his allegiance to the Patriots, their cornerback, his player.
Even though he was at a Seahawks party in his native Vicksburg, Mississippi, he was poised to celebrate Malcolm Butler, the undrafted rookie for New England who once played for Stevens at Vicksburg High.
Malcolm’s path to the NFL was fraught with missteps and disappointment, Stevens told them, but his irrepressibility had come to define him as a special talent who was afforded a second chance and parlayed it into a Super Bowl roster spot.
“I just wanted them to know his story,” Stevens explained. “I was so very proud.”
The first half came and went without Butler taking the field for a single snap at cornerback, and the Seahawks fans couldn’t resist.
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