JOEY KNIGHT | Times
Spoto High alumnus Geronimo Allison watches the NFL Draft Saturday from a Lee Roy Selmon's patio with mom Melissa Glover (orange shirt) and cousin Gloria Glover.
Grandparents, cousins, friends and former coaches arrived. So did servers and appetizers and entrees and soft drinks.
But the phone call Geronimo Allison had spent a lifetime awaiting never did.
The former Illinois -- and Spoto High -- receiver arrived on the patio of the Lee Roy Selmon's in Brandon around noon Saturday, only to hang around anxiously as the day evolved into one long drag route.