Super Bowl champion and Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller is one of the latest athletes to contribute to The Players' Tribune, joining DeSoto athletes Tony Jerod-Eddie, Damontre Moore and Cyrus Gray to discuss what else? Just how much of a nerd that Von Miller is.
In a conversational format, the piece from the DeSoto quartet recalls everything from a late-night sneak out at the Miller house to Von winning a football championship with an 11-member team just after his father learned that his son was even playing.
Miller's father told him in 1999 that he wasn't ready for football, so his introduction to the game had to be kept low key.