STILLWATER — Lenzy Pipkins walked off the football field for the last time as an eighth grader in Texas and made a declaration to his mother: “I'm done playing, for now.”
Barbara Pipkins raised an eyebrow. From an early age, her son had always been an independent thinker with an outgoing personality. But what did he mean?
“My senior year of high school,” Pipkins said, “I'm going to play football again.”
Barbara reminisced and laughed over the phone some eight years later: “I was like, ‘What is this kid talking about?'”
Pipkins has always been full of surprises.