Football Turning a Fumble Into Fuel

[Triple B]

 

 

Published: August 2, 2018

TAMPA — He arrived two weeks early, and still weighed almost 12 pounds. In hindsight, maybe that should've been a portent for Carole and Chuck Wilcox. This robust boy, the younger of their two kids, would be a handful.

Mitch Wilcox entered kindergarten with as many ER visits as birthday candles. When he wasn't losing two front teeth (and severing a facial artery) falling off a dresser, he was crashing his bike into a parked car or suffering head abrasions playing street football.

"We celebrated that he was alive on his fifth birthday," Carole said. "Five ER trips before he was 5."

The scars were profound, too. Plastic surgery was needed when his teeth tore through his upper lip during that dresser crash, and Wilcox still has a modest bald spot on the back of his head from the streetball incident.

"I remember probably like, around maybe 13 or 14, (Carole) looked me in the eyes and was like, 'It will be a miracle if you make it to 18,'" Wilcox recalled. "Kind of joking, kind of not."

Rest of article

[NewEnglandBull]

This kid is going to do big things this year! 

[E.T.]

Expecting it!