The future Packers defensive lineman, about 14 years old at the time, brought his little brother, Isaiah, with him to swim at a friend’s house in their hometown of Jackson, Miss.
The agreement came with an understanding, though. Before they arrived, Ringo laid down the ground rules to his younger brother, who was about age four.
“I told him, ‘Stay on the steps. Do not get off the steps,’” Ringo recalled this week in a phone interview. “I think I turned my back for 5 seconds and then all I see is his hands waving in the pool.