There are very few sports stars I admire because I think too many people engage in hero worship. Kurt Warner is another story altogether.
You could not write his life story. Struggles to get in the NFL through the arena football league. Just to get into the NFL at that point was a million to one.
At best you would expect him struggling to get to the NFL to maybe be a third stringer but he becomes possibly one of the best QB’s based on his stats. A QB 151 or 154 (?) rating this year? Huh?
He is working in a grocery store and takes out his future wife with her kids on a date. She thought he would run from her having children being a single mom. He is an amazing guy plus his career at this age is astonishing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Warner
He still comes back to St. Louis in the dead of winter for his warm coat drive, established when he played here.
He also went to Iowa to help out during the flooding a few years ago.
Those are both places he could have “moved on” from, now that he has re-established his stardom in Arizona.
Yet, there are still those idiots who continue to slam Kurt for his publicly thanking God for all his good fortune. Highly admirable and a manifestation of having one’s priorities straight, in my estimation.