Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. 🥲

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. 🥲

It’s also where the drinking that destroyed his personal and professional life began.

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Montee Ball’s comeback from rock bottom has nothing to do with football

Ball won’t be taking classes at the University of Wisconsin this summer as a gridiron hero. And even though he’s still young enough to play professionally at age 26, Ball has no interest in that kind of comeback.

 

Ball will be a regular student with completely different goals than when he left for the NFL four years earlier.

Ball won’t be taking classes at the University of Wisconsin this summer as a gridiron hero. And even though he’s still young enough to play professionally at age 26, Ball has no interest in that kind of comeback.

Ball will be a regular student with completely different goals than when he left for the NFL four years earlier.

He isn’t just seeking to graduate.

He is seeking redemption while trying to warn others not to let alcohol take them down the same path.

While breaking rushing records for the Badgers, Ball was setting himself up for failure to come. The heavy partying that began during his 2011 junior season didn’t stop after he became a Denver Broncos second-round draft pick two years later.

The boozing continued throughout his time in Denver and after his 2015 release.