Father and son looked over a map of the United States and arrived at the joint conclusion that many NFL games are played in bad weather, especially when they matter most.
"So let's go play in the cold and snow," Frank Edelman told his boy, Julian.
The kid had finished one season of junior college ball at San Mateo in California, about eight miles from his Redwood City home, and his only firm Division I offer came by way of Kent State. Julian Edelman wanted to be Deion Sanders as a boy, and then as a 5-foot-10 college quarterback, he wanted to be Doug Flutie.