So back in the first five or six years

of being the Detroit Lions chaplain, you will remember,

we used to do our pro challenge assemblies

to basically give the gospel.

And a public high school is awesome, right?

Anyway, I'll never forget

inner city school Detroit one year

in this high school girl walks in.

She was like gonna introduce us.

And all I remember is she was talking to her friends,

didn't know we could overhear them.

So one of her friend goes, hey,

who's that other little guy over there?

Cause these big athletes, inner friend goes,

oh, he's nobody.

Were they talking about you?

Yeah, I mean, I was the only guy.

And all I remember was thinking, oh wow, I'm nobody.

My whole life, I wanted to be somebody.

And a high school girl just told me,

oh, that's sad.

I'm nobody cause I'm standing beside

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