Aeneas Williams finished his spectacular football career in 2004, in St. Louis with the Rams. And Williams, one of the best cornerbacks in history, was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014.
But he wasn’t done, far from it. In fact, he was just getting started with the rest of his journey, the part many consider much more important than his impressive accomplishments on the field.
His remarkable life is chronicled on Friday in the latest installment of NFL Network’s “A Football Life” series, at 8 p.m. Central time.
Williams is a pastor at Ferguson-based The Spirit Church, which he founded in his basement, and was instrumental not only in helping people in that community cope with the rioting there that was fueled by the Michael Brown case — which erupted a week after his Hall induction — but has been a central figure in the recovery and rebuilding of that community.