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The question hung in the air like a bomber on approach, seconds away from delivering its payload.

Blessed with a 6-foot-2, 245-pound frame in a recruiting hotbed, Bobby Richardson had just been kicked off the Tampa Bay Tech football team, his junior year of high school washed out by a dispute with the coach. Grades cost Richardson his sophomore season; the football program at his first high school hadn’t fit what Richardson wanted as a freshman, either.

Three seasons into his high school career, and Richardson still hadn’t played a down of high school football. Frustrated by his son’s lack of focus, Bobby Jr. — Richardson is the third Bobby in his family — asked his son a question.



“What now?”

Richardson felt the full weight of the question immediately.

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