These are delicate days in the Sanderson household.
Football season's here and 11-year old Clark's begging dad for permission to follow his legacy. But former Alabama receiver Craig Sanderson's wedged in the moral predicament between tradition and his truth.
"He desperately wants to play," Sanderson said.
So the decision's agonizing for the Mountain Brook father with a unique perspective.
Just a few months separate him from best-friend Kevin Turner's death that ended an excruciating battle with ALS. Sanderson has no doubt football was the primary cause of the neurological disease that robbed Turner of practically everything before passing away in March.