When Kenny Moore II was 16 years old, he quit football.

It just wasn't for him, he thought.

He was just going to be used for practices, he wasn't going to get to play in a game, he was just wasting his time. He should just walk away and focus on the other sports he was playing.

He'd been to one practice, and he'd had enough.

Less than 48 hours later, Moore went back. 13 years later, he hasn't taken the pads off – and isn't planning to anytime soon.

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Standing outside the visitors' concession stand at Martin Stadium in Valdosta, Ga., a 16-year-old Moore watches the Lowndes High School football team warm up. It's something the teenager often finds himself doing every Friday night, soaking everything in before he gets to work serving up hot dogs and hamburgers.

"Dang," he says to him

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