“I remember we would wrestle as kids and fight, you would hold me down, and you would make that fist and put your knuckle out and just hit me in the same place until my skin would raise, and I’d have to sit there and endure that pain. “My brother, my rabbit who I was chasing as a child, you built for this game through tough love,” Woodson said. Terry was a former high school football star Charles had tried to emulate while growing up in Fremont, Ohio. MORE: Packers GM calls Devin Funchess' slur 'very unacceptable' 'īut he spent most of his 10 minutes talking about his family, including his wife, April sister, Shannon and brother, Terry Carter. MORE: Rain curtails Family Night fireworks but fans still have fun MORE: Hall of Famer Charles Woodson a leader for Packers both on and off the field That includes a 2009 season in which he was named defensive player of the year. My mama raised two of’em.”Īlong the way Woodson referenced the two teams he played for in the NFL – the Oakland Raiders at the start and finish of his 18 years in the league, and the Packers, where he had the seven seasons that put him over the top as a first-ballot Hall of Famer. You hear people say a woman can’t raise a man. I watched her every day as a child get up, work her fingers to the bone to make sure she provided for her family. “My passion, how hard I work, that comes from mother.
“Look no further than my mama to find out where I get it from,” he said.
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