The very idea of Louis Nix III — all by himself — walking
cheap nfl jerseys out onto the field during Senior Night at Raines High School in Jacksonville, Fla., brought Stephanie Wingfield to tears. Made her angry, too. She hated that she hardly ever got to see her not-so-little boy play football. And she hated the idea that the fans in the stands would be scoffing and speculating as to why Nix had neither parent by his side, while the other kids were all flanked by Mom and Dad.
But with 13 kids — eight of them young enough to be shoehorned into a three-bedroom house and only one of them old enough to have a job of his own — and with Nix’s dad largely out of the picture, Wingfield couldn’t afford to give up a Friday night shift at the hospital cafeteria. Not for any game. Not even for Senior Night.