Bobby Richardson Jr. posed the question to his son, Bobby III, who admittedly was in the middle of making a gigantic mess of his athletic career.
“My first year of high school, I didn’t make the team there,” Richardson III said. “Second year, I transferred to another high school and my grades were low. Third year, me and the coach got into some type of thing and I was released from the team.”
So, in three years of high school – and aided by the double dip of having a poor attitude and poorer circle of friends – Bobby Richardson III hadn’t played a down.