Seven longest yards.

yards.

Chris and Emily Norton are here on chewing the fat and I started reading the book and I realized, wow, the struggles that I've been through and are going through,

nothing. Nothing.

So, Chris and Emily are here in The chewing the Fast Studios to tell me first what happened?

Yeah. What happened?

So just 18 year old kid, October 16, 2010, I'm spreading down the field and I see this opening and I'm going to make the tackle and I make a diving play at the guys' legs and I miss time my jump and my head collided right with his legs and

instantly I lose all feeling and movement from my neck down I suffered a severe

spinal cord injury I'm flown out and I'm given a 3% chance to ever regain any

feeling or movement back below my neck which I thought was the end for me.

Boy no kidding. As, you know, like I started out with, you know, we all have our struggles and, you know, others obviously more than, more than most of us think.

But in the beginning you talk about the obstacles in the very beginning is when you

realized how important your outlook was.

Tell us a little bit about that.

Yeah you know my whole 18 years of life, I was consumed with my athletic ability, my identity, and my

physicality is this identity of being a man, this protector, and then everything just got thrown away.

Like everything that I believed in to be true about who I am and the strength that it comes from

was just gone and I had to learn to focus on the things that I do have

and when I can do when I can offer and I realize that people value that they

didn't value how fast I can move or how strong I was. They valued

about who I was as a person and I began to focus on those things and just staying positive,

focusing on all the blessings I have in my life and that gave me energy it gave me motivation gave me a positive outlook and

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