DETROIT -- Calder Hodge has big dreams; record-breaking, life-changing, world-inspiring dreams. He's 14 years old. Due to a rare disorder called fibular hemimelia, his legs were amputated when he was 3.
That never stopped him from thinking big. From pushing to do everything that his older brothers could do, and maybe even more than that.
Hodge wants to be the first double amputee quarterback in the NFL. He loves football. Breathes football. And his favorite player is Matthew Stafford. Which led him to Detroit, to Ford Field and to a moment he'll never forget. Hodge, who artificial-turf company FieldTurf helped bring to Lions practice, thought he was heading to watch Stafford and the other Lions quarterbacks work out.