Wallace Gilberry battled for nine seasons in the trenches of the NFL. Before that, he was a standout at Baldwin County High School in Bay Minette and for the Alabama Crimson Tide.
But he has a different kind of football in mind for youngsters in Baldwin County this summer. Gilberry has started a flag football league for kindergarten through sixth-grade students.
"I'm looking at it as a way to slow down the game of football," Gilberry said. "And when I say slow down the game of football, I mean taking some of the contact away from the kids at such a young age, giving the parents an understanding on what their kids are doing and why their kids are doing it, and we even have tutoring sessions on some of the practice schedule days where we invite the parents in, because some parents don't know what a first down is.