“Making or missing a field goal is not a big deal. It’s not the end of the world. Growing up in an orphanage, not having family for you, it’s tougher.”
Adam Griffith arrived in Alabama to much fanfare in 2012 as the top-rated kicker recruit in his class, sporting what kicking guru Chris Sailer called “the strongest leg that I have ever seen at the high school level.” Originally from Poland, the world got to know Adam last year thanks to this tear-inducing ESPN piece about his tumultuous childhood growing up in an orphanage.