ACCRA, GHANA -- Despite winning the Super Bowl with the Los Angeles Rams last season, defensive end Ogbonnia 'Obo' Okoronkwo told ESPN that his only logical step was to sign with the Houston Texans so he could give back to his community.
Okoronkwo, who is currently helping out at the NFL's first training camp in Africa, started playing football in his junior year at Alief Taylor High School in Texas, playing the game secretly, against his father's wishes.
He says Houston made him fall in love with football, and as the son of two Nigerian parents, it is little surprise that he feels at home in a city that has the second-largest Nigerian population in the US.