Jeremiah Castille brings football, encouragement to Timothy Robinson
(MOBILE, Ala.) Nov. 20 - Tim Robinson's mother keeps a smile on her face as she scampers around her son's hospital bed. Attitude can be everything to a young man who is struggling to recover from a brain injury that nearly took his life. Timothy has little movement... confined to his hands and feet. But if enthusiasm counts for anything, Mom will continue to make a difference.
In that one fateful moment, Robinson went from Friday nights on a football field to days and weeks in a hospital bed. it can happen to any any player on any given night. And no one is more aware of that than the man who came to see him today.
"The game teaches a lot about life... and I believe that through this situation, a lot of people are going to be blessed..."
Former University of Alabama defensive back and NFL star Jeremiah Castille hopes to deliver a blessing today... He's sharing his love for football with a young man sidelined by the game. Castille doesn't have to wonder what Timothy is thinking and feeling. He already knows...
" ...three concussions for myself, knocked out, actually carried out of Kansas City on a stretcher, my wife sitting there watching that... knocked out, actually came to and my right side was paralyzed... and didn't know if I would walk again... everything came back to me,. So those are things that come to mind when I walk into a room and visit someone like that."
Timothy's mother keeps smiling as Castille hands the young man a white football.
"It's got Coach Sabin's autograph on it and I signed it," Castille says.
Though words would be nice, Timothy finds his own way to express his feelings... It's not a cure, but it is good medicine.
"When I gave him the card, I didn't realize he was number 22, but he kept putting his hand at Mark Ingram's number. I was telling him, Tim, don't worry about trying to read these names. If you see the number, you're going to know whose name it is based on the number. So he kept putting his hand at number 22. And that's Mark Ingram's number... but that's his number, too!"
Jeremiah Castille's career has taken him to amazing places- even to the Super Bowl. But today, it has taken him to the hospital room of Timothy Robinson... and to the realization of what is truly important in life-
"...that life is fragile," he says, "and we should really have a love for one another."
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