“So what led you to suggest that Aaron should try playing football?” I asked Aaron’s father, Steve. “Actually it was the nurse practitioner at the pediatrician’s office who first brought it up. She showed us how his weight percentile was climbing but his height percentile wasn’t changing. I remember I asked her, ‘What are you trying to tell us?’ And she said, ‘Aaron is getting overweight.’ She didn’t mention football per se. She just said that Aaron needed to be more active, and she suggested after-school sports. Football was my idea.
