Holmes shares his Past

Post #1 » by **SD2042** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:29 pm

http://football.realgm.com/src_wiretap_ ... hen_young/

ESPN - Santonio Holmes, growing up in south Florida, spent a year selling drugs on a street corner in his small hometown.

He chose to make his surprising admission at the Super Bowl, knowing millions of impressionable youngsters will be closely following the game and its players. By revealing his secret, Holmes hopes he may persuade other at-risk youth to choose a path that leads to the athletic field and a classroom, not to a detention center or a jail cell.

"I've only told three or four people about it," Holmes said Wednesday. "I feel it's time to share things. I'm on the biggest stage, everybody's going to be watching. I'm pretty sure some kids can get a feel for changing their lives and not doing those type of things, and can get an opportunity to get out of the ghetto, the 'hood, to be successful."

Canomad · Post #2 » by **Canomad** » Mon Feb 2, 2009 5:08 am

im glad for him if he can change one kids life then it worth everything! holmes is amazing and is big time playmaker and comes through for the steelers all the time i love holmes. we need to make sure we resign him for sure when his contract is up! he earned that mvp tonight and showed the world that hes great wide receiver.