When he joined the football team freshman year of high school, he was barely five feet tall. His father was only five and a half feet tall and his mother was shorter than that. But his great grandpa Eli had been five feet and eleven inches, so he still had hope.

By his senior year, he was almost exactly five and a half feet tall. Despite his best efforts in the weight room and eating as much as he could in the cafeteria, the most he ever weighed was 160 pounds. Coach put him in the games after they were already winning.

He went to the same college as some of the other football players from his high scool team. He enrolled in business because that’s what his great grandpa Eli had done. One day, he got a B+ on a test. Then he met a recruiter. They said he could make $100,000 per year. He looked at the requirements for the job. There was nothing about his height or his weight.