Situated beneath Interstate 10 in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans, Hunter’s Field is where Landon Collins started his NFL journey.
As a toddler – the age depends on which family member is telling the story -- he told his father, Thomas, that he wanted to play football. So one day they left the house where they lived with Collins’ grandmother and walked around the corner to the park. Amid the buzzing of cars and trucks passing overhead, kids nearly double his age were playing a game. Landon wanted in. That feeling would never leave him.
In typical fashion for big kids, they made the smaller and younger Collins miss all day.