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LeRoy Butler makes one final Lambeau Leap through the “doors of football heaven” into the Pro Football Hall of Fame

When you were growing up, how often did you look at a kid wearing braces on their legs and having difficulty walking and think how sorry you felt for them? That they wouldn’t be able to lead a normal life?

You can bet many of LeRoy Butler’s peers looked at him similarly and while some bullied him, others likely pitied him. Born with pigeon toes and sometimes spending time in a wheelchair as well as utilizing braces, the kid from Jacksonville, Florida who harbored NFL dreams was probably not even a second thought to many while growing up.