With football, you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two-game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

What strikes me most about Best Buddies International is the simplicity and magnitude of the mission. Friendship is a simple idea.

I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.

The only thing I really like doing during the week is getting ready to play the game.

Losing sucks, and especially to the Jets.

In sports you often become part of something greater than yourself.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.