By the time Joe Hills walked into the offices of the Tampa Bay Storm in 2012, he had quite a football resume, but no one asked him about his experience or his references on that day.
“They looked me up and down said, ‘You look like a defensive end or a safety.’ After I told them I played receiver, they were like, ‘Can you run? Can you move?’ Normal football questions,” Hills said. “That was it.”
The Storm of the Arena Football League were a Hail Mary at what could have been the end of a football career that started in earnest at South Carolina in 2007 as part of the Gamecocks highest rated recruiting class in history.