Ryan and Julie Olsen never had their three oldest sons play football until they hit seventh grade. Soccer was the sport of preference for the boys.

Thus, it’s funny that the sport where there is no use of hands eventually fell out of favor with the Olsen boys. Then they went on to become the most prolific pass-catch brothers in WPIAL football in at least five decades — hands down.

“I had a football coach once ask me if we had a refrigerator or freezer in our house full of hands, and did we just hand them out to the kids,” Julie Olsen said with a laugh.

What’s cool is that at Armstrong High School in Kittanning, oldest son Cadin used to wrap his right hand around a football and fling it like few quarterbacks in WPIAL history. Second-oldest Ian made a name for himself catching footballs.

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