Long before Bug Rivera played any competitive football, he found his first athletic love on a skateboard. He got his first skateboard in preschool and spent a lot of his earliest years learning to ride, much to the annoyance of his mother Susan. Concern for her young son’s safety consistently made her check that he was wearing pads.
“He always challenged himself to do crazy tricks that would drive me up the wall because I was worried that he was going to get hurt,” Susan says.
Bug would always remove the pads when his mother wasn’t looking and would always end up scraped.