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"He's a wonderful man," says Cathy Dworak, the team's manager of community relations.
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He has his own charity, the Donald Driver Foundation, which offers assistance to ill children with unmanageable hospital bills, provides housing for the homeless and donates to a variety of local charities. He is also said to make more charity appearances than any other player on the team by a wide margin. He deserves it not because of who he is on the field, but rather who he is off it. However, that is not why Donald Driver deserves your utmost respect. He's never been a "look at me"-type guy, which is why he's flown so wildly under the radar in the same era as guys like Terrell Owens and Randy Moss.įrom 2005 to 2008 he was, aside from Marvin Harrison, perhaps the best and most consistent wide receiver in all of football.ĭriver holds Packers franchise records for career receiving yards, receptions, 1,000-yard receiving seasons, consecutive games with a reception and 50-plus-catch seasons. However, talking to Driver, you wouldn't know it. The guy has become a Packers legend, the second greatest receiver in team history.
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With his family still in poverty, Driver needed an NFL paycheck desperately, so he chose the Packers.įor two years Driver played every practice as if he would have been arrested for taking a play off, and in 2002, when the Packers were about as desperate for a wide receiver as Driver himself was for money as a kid, guess who came out of nowhere to become a Pro Bowl receiver?ĭriver didn't disappear after that 2002 season either. Isn't it funny how one good deed can mean so much?Īfter he finished college, Driver had a choice to make: He could either compete in the 2000 Sydney Olympics or join the Green Bay Packers, who had used the 213th overall pick to draft him in 1999. Driver starred in track and football at Alcorn State, where he also got his accounting degree. It then occurred to him what the lady was trying to tell him that day: "You could be doing so much more!"Īnd he did. He joined the drill team at his grandmother's church and played organized football for the first time at Milby High School, where he found out Olympic speed and great hands can do more than just steal cars. But one year later his mom sent him to live with his grandmother. He still stole another car or two because things were that bad. He couldn't believe what had just happened-until the woman walked over to him and said, "Get in this house!" Inside, she went off on him. The five words that followed would go on to change Driver's life as he knew it: "Oh, that's just my grandson."ĭonald was mesmerized. "So who's that sitting on your porch?" one cop said to her. She was fine, but by the time he got back the police were rounding the corner, so she said to him, "Go sit on my porch."įor some reason he trusted her, and he took a seat on her porch.īy the time the cops got there she told them the lowlife had run off. Driver, who was in the midst of literally running for his life, the same kid who had just been caught stealing a car, turned back to check on the well-being of a woman that he had no affiliation with whatsoever, a woman he had never met in his life. It was the old lady. He went back to make sure she was okay.
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He had the cops beat by a few blocks, but something made him turn back. He hopped out of the car and sprinted away, and he was in the clear. However, just as he was making his escape, he hit an old woman's car as she was backing out of her driveway. Just as he was starting the car, he heard sirens, so he did what anybody would do-stepped on the gas and got away as fast as possible.
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Driver says he probably stole 20 or 30 cars, and he was only caught once. Those cars he would sell for drugs, drugs he claims he never used, but rather resold for more money.
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Things were so bad for the Drivers that Donald, dubbed "Quickie" by his brothers, was using his God-given talents to steal cars.