Once, as the Wilson players came out of the locker room for the second half of an away game, a boy in a wheelchair asked Kindle for an autograph. "That's dead-on," agreed Bobby Estes who coached Kindle when he was the country's top defensive end prospect at Woodrow Wilson High in Dallas.Īfter big games on the road, when the rest of the Wilson players were on the bus ready to leave, Kindle was still in the stadium signing autographs because he didn't want to say no. "Sergio's a pleaser, he wants people around him to be happy" Muschamp said. But he's also the one standing in the weight room for hours, straining, pushing to play football again. At times he's still the lighthearted prankster who ran around the locker room last fall trying on other players' helmets and shoulder pads since he wasn't assigned any of his own. The Ravens loved his potential when they picked him in the second round last year and he is expected to be one of their primary pass-rushing threats at linebacker, something that is coming along slowly given the injury and the time spent away. So it is because of Little Serg and this team that made a commitment to him and never wavered that he tries so hard to get back to becoming the player he was.
I don't want people to come up and say, ‘Your dad was messed up' because that's not what it's about." Luckily he's too young to understand some of the things I was getting into, but at the end of the day you want him to look back at your career and man he will be proud to say, 'That's my father.' And be happy about it. "Him being 5 now I have made so many mistakes during his childhood but at the end of the day … " Kindle said, then stopped.
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Plus he isn't sure he's been the best role model. He also keeps pictures of his son in his living room, dining room, bedroom, bathroom and lest he forget Little Serg on the way to practice, there's a photo on the dashboard of his car. Sergio has downloaded Little Serg's photo to the screensaver of both his cell phones. And it never seems as if Little Serg is far away. But he adores the child everyone calls "Little Serg," a gregarious boy who struck his preschool teachers as quite bright even if he does talk a little too much at quiet time. The boy is 5 and lives in Dallas with his mother so Sergio doesn't get to see him much now. "Basically I had to show I could because if I don't prove to myself, how am I going to show all of you and the doubters?" "I had prove to myself first and foremost," he said. You feel like some plays out there I could have made it, but you're not out there." "In my life, eight months of the year for the past 18 was football, and it's different without it. "I have been playing football every year since I was 4 years old, and taking a year off was hard," he said.
He glanced out a window, toward the practice fields now empty.
I never would have thought that."Įventually the balance came back, first at a rehabilitation facility near his home in Dallas and then in workouts at the Ravens' headquarters, where he sat in meetings, changed in the locker room and watched drills – everything but putting on a helmet since the doctors would not clear him to play. "You think a head injury, OK, you might have some headaches or some ringing in my head or something or be nauseous, but you lose your hearing, your balance, your coordination. "What surprised me was how much an injury like that can affect so much of your body, so much of your ability," he said.
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