The debt still hasn’t been paid.
Not yet. Maybe not ever.
Willie Colon knows that without football he wouldn’t be here. He’s well aware that he could have easily been another statistic, another kid from a single-parent home in the South Bronx “doing God knows what.”
That intangible thing that keeps him tethered to football is bigger than just pride or money. It’s rooted in an overwhelming obligation — a duty to give all of himself to the sport that gave so much to him.
“Football saved my life,” Colon said in a recent interview with Newsday.