The judge he wanted to thankSourced
After being drafted by the NFL, a player wanted to find the judge who sent him to reform school.
Ralph Jarvis began playing football at a juvenile reform school, continued in college, and was drafted by the Chicago Bears in 1988. He said he wanted to find the judge who had sent him there and thank him.
A hard turn in his life became an unexpected starting point.
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