When Ole Miss punter Mac Brown was in seventh grade, he decided to join the fight against ALS when his friend’s father Michael Brandt was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a debilitating neurodegenerative disease that ultimately claimed his life.
“He made a difference in my life,” Brown said. “Seeing the struggle that his family went through—that was one of the first losses in my life that I experienced firsthand. Seeing his family watch him go through the pain of him fighting for life made me want to get off my couch and do something as well.