It was the Roughnecks vs. the Skinny Bricks during backyard football and if either team needed a warm-up, the Karate Kids were a block over on Maplewood Avenue.
Monty Madaris, redshirt junior wide receiver and defensive back at MSU, played for the Skinny Bricks alongside his cousin Rodriguez Coleman.
Lined up across the backyard on the roughnecks were the boys’ other cousins, Greg Madaris and Michael Means Jr. While also in the Eastside of Cincinnati, their cousin Isaiah Gentry was growing up a few years behind the six-year-olds’ makeshift league.
Madaris, Means Jr.