And in the interest of forewarning, know that the “while” very well could mean “never.”
He was that way before New Orleans Saints players paid him, and other children, a visit at Ochsner Hospital for Children last week, before the team invited him and his family to the facility to attend practice and get a more personal introduction to the players Dec. 19, before he was a special guest of punter Thomas Morstead for the Monday night game against Detroit in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Dec. 21.
True, those events, which received national coverage following a series of videos posted on the team’s Facebook page, might have brought out even more of Jarrius’ enthusiasm and magnetism – and he already was about as enthused and magnetic as any person possibly could be.