“She would come home tired, get a little rest, get up and go back to work. We recognized that and saw that.”
Behind many successful football stories there’s a mother pushing sons to do the right things.
For the Johnsons, Belton and Marcus, Glenda Smith is that mom.
Even if for a time her eyes were closed.
It wasn’t necessarily that Smith was concerned for her boys’ well-being. That was part of it. The other part was Smith’s pragmatism.