Diane Ross wanted the name on the back of her No. 96 Bengals jersey to say, “Dunlap’s Mom.” But they wouldn’t drop in the apostrophe and that just wasn’t good enough for the principal of Goodwin Elementary in North Charleston, S.C.
“I wasn’t too crazy about it not being spelled correctly,” she says and she opted to go without the punctuation. “Momma Dunlap.”
No wonder the guy who wears No. 96 on the field, Carlos Dunlap, grew up to make education “the core,” of his foundation. Now a better student than when he was a student (“He was procrastinator,” Diane says), Dunlap has taken extensive notes from those around him since he came into the NFL five years ago and produced one of city’s most active outreaches for youth.