His four younger siblings had already been evacuated to College Station, Texas. Now it was a 12-year-old boy and his grandfather trying for two terrifying weeks to survive the wrath of Hurricane Katrina inside his reeling hometown’s Superdome.
“I’m pretty sure you heard the stories,” Arthur Maulet is saying. “Some things I don’t want to tell. Some things I don’t want to go back on. I like to keep that to myself, and that motivates me for myself, and that’s it. It’s a lot of stuff, it takes me to a place I don’t want to be.”
The only place Arthur Maulet wants to be these days is the NFL, playing cornerback for the Jets, and because of a rash of injuries, he is one unlikely starter opposite Darryl Roberts on the eve of Thursday night’s preseason game in Atlanta.