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Just before you leave the locker room, you touch the picture of your girlfriend hanging in your locker--something you always do before a practice or a game. For inspiration and good luck. Then, as you walk down the asphalt path to the practice fields, you sing a hymn, "Precious Lord," in your head and think about what your father, Tony Washington, a high school football coach, would say to you.
Play hard, don't get beat and remember, not everybody has the opportunity you have.
Opportunity. You've heard its fickle knock before, haven't you, T.J. Washington? In Dallas. In Tennessee. In Pittsburgh. In St. Louis. In Seattle. In Pittsburgh again. In Carolina. ...