THE RUMORS ABOUT the kid are so ridiculous that everybody in Yulee, Florida, believes them. Because who could even make this stuff up?
A little, 12-year-old giant who powers up with Snickers bars before and during games? A running back who is so untackleable that area football coaches agreed he has to leave the game every time his team gets a 21-point lead? A sixth-grader everybody calls "Shocka" because he has been shocking the world since before he was born?
These are the kinds of tall tales that traveled quickly along the dirt roads of Yulee, a countrified suburb 24 miles outside of Jacksonville near the Georgia line.