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By: Allen Leister (Strategic Sports Writing, Murrow College)
Renard Bell played football for the first time when he was 5, but his love for the game began even earlier.
"It first started when I was about 3 years old. I would watch my brother play flag football and I wanted to play," Bell said. "My dad was one of the coaches on the team so I would run on the field when my brother was practicing, and my dad would have to drag me off. They made me the team water boy for that.