Marques Ogden credits football for being able to pick himself up. “Football has given me the ability to develop a championship mindset that will never break under any circumstances. It’s also given me the ability to bounce back and persevere through anything.”
A felony kept J Haleem from securing the corporate job his college degree qualified him for so he started his own businesses.
At the start of Jim Barker’s storied football career as a coach and administrator, he knew getting into the league, that a life in sports was as uncertain as it could get.