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John Kuntz/The Pla DealerCleveland Browns nng back Ben Gay ph Baltimore Ravens fensive back Chris McAlister to the si for a first down n the fourth quarter a victory Baltimore.This profile was origally published The Pla Dealer on Nov. 20, 2001.Browns nng back Ben Gay said he woke up one day last year Garn Cy, Kan., wonrg how he had gone om the greatt high school nng back Texas history to a dg aler and a dnk.What happened to the ltle boy who ed to kneel bi his parents Hoton and memorize scripture until was burned to his bra and rollg off his lips?The high school star who was so phenomenal that they lled a news nference when he mted to Baylor?The kid wh the 1,000-watt se who said, "Y, sir" and "No, sir," held the door for the elrly and bounced babi 'til they giggled?In his place, he says, was a thug who was sellg crack e and hero.
A loser who need a drk to lm his nerv and make his hands stop tremblg."I knew I had to turn my life around or I was gog to die," said Gay, the Browns rookie phenom who had a stunng but agast the Ravens on Sunday wh 56 yards and a touchdown.
"I went om hero to zero."The turng pot me when Gay was volved a barroom shootout wh rival gang members om nearby Dodge Cy, Kan., and was almost killed. "I'd never get to hug her, kiss her or raise her."Benjam Gay Jr., now 21, was the first son of Geia and Ben Sr.
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"I prayed for my boy and waed a long time," said Ben Sr.In the Gay fay, they read the Bible daily, attend church weekly and were forbidn to go to parti.
If you need to promote your chary, you lled Ben."A homebody, Gay chose Baylor Wa, Texas, over Florida, Florida State and Miami, where Browns ach Butch Davis was head ach and personally reced him."Baylor wasn't too big and was close to home," Gay said.
"At first, I was lovg ."But durg his first semter, he said his girliend back home Hoton told him she was pregnant."I started drivg back and forth to help take re of her," Gay said. But I was tryg to do the right thg for her."But when the baby me, Gay's girliend told him wasn't his child."That experience changed me," said Gay.
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I got a bad attu."Former Baylor assistant Andy McCollum, now Middle Tennsee State head ach, had reced Gay and was strivg to get him eligible. We uldn't get him on the football field."Howard Castelberry/Hoton ChronicleBen Gay on the field of Sprg High School Texas, 1997.Durg the followg season, 1998, Gay was kicked off the team after five weeks unr new head ach Kev Steele and never played a down for Baylor. Steele showed a Wa sportswrer his books of l vlatns -- one for 119 players and a fatter one jt for Ben Gay."They didn't unrstand me," Gay said.A wild scramble for Gay ensued, and he wound up at Garn Cy Communy College Kansas, where Bob Larsen was head ach."I was stg his livg room thkg that legends like Bobby Bown had sat this chair," said Larsen.
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"I asked myself, 'What am I dog here?' " Garn Cy, where Gay spent the 1999 season, was a breedg ground for other partial amic qualifiers such as Bengals nng back Corey Dillon."On Ben's first day at Garn Cy, he was ught smokg cigarett the hallway," said Larsen. "I pulled him and said, 'You n't do that,' and he said, 'I'm a ee man and you n't tell me what to do.' "Wh weeks, Gay was csg at the offensive ordator durg practice. "He was the greatt athlete I've ever ached and the biggt disappotment of my reer," said Larsen.His blood-prsure still ris when Gay is mentned."Ben Gay uld walk to the Whe Hoe a tuxedo and schmooze the print," said Larsen.
He's full of charm and charisma, but he'd rather tell a lie when the tth would do jt fe."Larsen managed to ax almost a full season out of Gay, who shed for 1,442 yards and 17 touchdowns."But we had to spend him om the homeg game and other gam bee of his gras and l vlatns," said Larsen.
She was my ace the hole."Larsen still blam himself for Gay's mise at Garn Cy."Ben Gay uld le the world," said Larsen.