Most boys would love to have a former Chicago Bear player as a father. For me, it wasnt glamorous being thrown and kicked around like a football. He wasnt my hero. He was a monster. When he tossed me out, I became just like him.
When I was born my crack addicted mother was seventeen. My father was thirty-six, and married to another woman. My father divorced his wife and kids to pursue a relationship with my mother. My mother escaped the abuse by leaving us when I was six. With no one else to abuse, my father committed unspeakable acts of violence against me. I was athletically gifted. I...