Football is known as a game of inches. Life can be like that, too.
Damon Harrison was moments away from a future in stocking shelves instead of stuffing running backs until Steven Miller, upon becoming a coach at William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa, got ahold of him before a manager at Wal-Mart could. Miller previously coached Harrison at Northwest Mississippi Community College, where both learned quickly that he wasn’t ready to be a college athlete. Harrison had signed his release form and returned home to Louisiana, where he was working the overnight shift.
Then Harrison’s mother, Brunella, received a phone call.