Just before this year's Super Bowl in Houston, I visited with several football players from Alief Taylor High School.
They were excited that one of their own - alum and then New England Patriot Martellus Bennett - would be competing in the game a few days later. They'd all looked up to he and his brother, Michael from the Seahawks, for as long as they could remember.
But it was more than football that drew the players to the Bennett brothers.
Sure, the duo was proof that hard work and determination could lead them to the highest levels of the sport.