Surrounded by faces he didn’t know but faces that felt familiar, Calais Campbell asked the Park Hill Pirates a question.

Do you know the pledge?

Campbell still does. He has been a Pro Bowler in Arizona, Jacksonville and Baltimore, and manned front lines from Atlanta to Miami and back to Arizona again. He is one of the NFL’s elder statesmen near the end of a career unlike few others. At his heart, though, the 38-year-old freight train is still a kid. A kid who grew up as a Park Hill Pirate .

Earlier Thursday morning, Campbell trotted out for the Cardinals’ joint practice with the Broncos. He’d invited the Pirates to come out for his hometown reunion, his first-ever youth team as a 6-year-old from Park Hill. He spotted them in the stands and pointed. Campbell has never forgotten them, b

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