COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver DeAndre Carter stood in front of a crowd that gazed at him with excitement.
“When I grow up I want to be a professional football player,” Carter read from an essay, before adding a line of his own.
“Crazy thing,” he said. “Me too!”
A student wrote the essay at Mayo Elementary School in Compton, where Chargers players spent part of a recent off day surprising 150 second and third-graders with bicycles.
When Carter united with the student who wrote the essay, the 29-year-old Carter and a student danced the “Griddy,” while wearing two smiles that infected the entire school auditorium and proved to be a challenging moment in determining who was enjoying it more -- Carter or the student.