The Cop first met The Kid nearly 15 years ago when he walked off Miami’s mean streets into Liberty City Elementary, a couple of go routes from where Chad Johnson grew up and told the principal he was looking for the “baddest,” eight-year-old in the building.
Sean Horne, the resource officer for Northwestern Senior High School and its feeder elementary schools, doubled as the football coach for the smallest pounds at the Gwen Cherry Boys and Girls Club down the street and his seven-year-olds had just lost the Super Bowl.
“If I can help him become a better man, he can probably become a good football player.