Sonatane Lui didn’t know Jamie Land or her 10-year-old son, Liam, when he walked across the field at Veterans Memorial Stadium last Saturday to thank them for coming to the Boise State football team’s season-opening victory against Troy.
Lui didn’t know Liam had autism, or that the start of fifth grade had been a bit rough for the little boy from Columbus, Georgia.
What Lui did know was that Liam was wearing a Boise State T-shirt in Trojan territory, and that automatically made them friends.
“Liam has not had a lot of great luck in school this year.