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White Quarterback Got Second Chance at Black College and Everybody Won

April 29, 2012 by 1 Comment

Jamie Reidy shares Casey Therriault’s heartwarming journey from incarceration to redemption as a white student at a historically black school.

This article appeared on ESPN.com more than a year ago, but I missed it.

This provides yet another reason why I follow Yahoo Sports.com’s Pat Forde on Twitter (@YahooForde). He is a college athletics expert, but in this story shows he has the nose for the human side of the scoreboard, too.

It took a lot of good men to make this a storybook ending.

Not only did Jackson State’s Casey Therriault find success in the most unlikely place, but he just got signed by the Atlanta Falcons in the NFL.

Go get ‘em, Casey!

 

 

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About Jamie Reidy

Jamie Reidy is a writer and Propecia "before" model. His new book A Walk's As Good As A Hit: Advice/Threats from My Old Man is a collection of funny essays about him and his father. His second book Bachelor 101: Cooking + Cleaning = Closing is a cookbook/lifestyle guide for clueless single guys just like him. His book Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE and OTHER DRUGS
in which Jake Gyllenhaal played "Jamie."

Comments

  1. Oliver Lee Bateman says:
    April 29, 2012 at 8:12 pm

    Ira Berkow wrote a wonderful story several years ago about a quarterback in a similar situation: http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/race/070200berkow-sports.html

    The ending wasn’t as happy for Marcus Jacoby as it was for Casey Therriault, but it wasn’t horrible, either.

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