By Michael J. Lewis, Friends of Jaclyn Foundation
It was to be a typical AYSO youth soccer banquet at a restaurant called Souplantation in Culver City, Calif. last November.
You know the kind; parents and kids show up, have a little dinner, walk off with a little trophy, and go home knowing they had a fun season out on the pitch. There was to be nothing remarkable about it.
Until 9-year-old Joey Rodriguez walked in with the USC starting quarterback.
Yep, mixed in among all the pint-sized fullbacks and forwards, the moms and Dads and youth coaches, was a guy who just might win the Heisman Trophy this fall.