Like many lofty endeavors, it started with a dream.
It wasn't every night, but it happened enough for Brandon McIntosh to notice.
In his dream, the former standout athlete who starred on the basketball court at Roger Bacon High School and Xavier University was back playing football and basketball again.
"I'd be so excited in my dream only to wake up kind of frustrated, a little anxious," said McIntosh, who's now a pastor at Ebenezer 2nd Baptist Church. "I had this dream enough over the course of years and it came to a point where I really started asking myself some tough questions.