RM: This is written by Teresa Morris, a native of Athens, Alabama.

Sweet Home...Athens, Alabama

*How did PR first get your attention?

Our girls were in Elementary school when Coach Rivers came to Athens
High. Being the ages that our girls were, they started asking to go to
football games. They wanted to go because all their friends were going.
We wanted to check out this new coach and his son that we had been
hearing about. The buzz around town was that he was a really good player
and that most importantly, Coach Rivers didn’t play favorites with his
team.

It didn’t take long to find Philip on the sidelines. He was always as
excitable as he is now. Maybe more so because he had that reckless high
school abandon thing going for him back then. He was on the sidelines,
with his head stuck in everything, watching every detail that went on
but at the same time, he was all over the place talking to all his
teammates.

LOL. You know, if they discovered some deep, horrible secret about him
down the road, I'd yell, "I knew he was too good to be true!"

Sounds like everything I've ever heard about the kid. He's just a
stand-up guy who everyone likes.

Best, R.E.F.