3] Inspire. Empower By Inky Johnson
I said, I can't move. So there's a shot. Look through my whole body. I
can't feel anything, man. I still remember the day I was in the film room
watching film and I was watching the California bears and my defensive
backs coach, lavish slate came in the room. He said, inky Johnson, I got
some good news for you.
And I dropped the clicker and I said, coach, what is it? He said, son, you
are projected top 30 drafting. You said all you have to do is play these
next 10 football games. You will automatic mode chai millionaire. I ran
out of the room. I got on the phone, I called my mother and my
grandmother. I said, listen, I said, after this season, our lives are about to
change forever.
And little did I know our luxury really about the chain. First game, we'd
come out, play against California bands. I get an interception. We shut
them down. We get the victory. Second game, we're playing against air
force. It gets late in the game, found ourselves in a dog fight, not poster
tackle. Like I approach any other tackle in the way I'm approaching it.
Done. We'll knock you out. Are you going to knock me out? I'm 165
pounds. I can't play with anybody, but at the point of contact when I hit
this guy, something different happened that never happened to me before
in my life. I hit him and it seemed as if every breath in my body left, my
body would come.
Leading never fell to the ground. I blacked out. I looked at the doctor
because I couldn't feel my right arm. They had poked me with all type of
needles. Inky, can you feel this? Can you feel, I couldn't call a name.
They took me back. They ran the cat scans and they wrote me back into