MIAMI -- When Frank Gore last played on the field at Armbrister Park, everybody thought his best path to success would be at linebacker. He played both ways here from the start of grade school into high school, but the lasting memory he gave Coconut Grove natives was that he could thump.
Gore, now the NFL's fourth all-time leading rusher, remembers playing on this field as some of the highlights of his childhood. He'd leave the two-bedroom apartment that he shared with nine family members and use all his emotions as fuel as he ran over and through anybody that was in his way.