Kurt Warner: Pro Bowler, Super Bowl MVP and Stock Boy?

Not many people know this amazing story about Kurt Warner and it should really be well known.

When Kurt was 22 he worked in a grocery store as a stock boy after being cut by the Green Bay Packers. He made $5.75 an hour and he thought his football career was over.

And then he met Brenda. After persuading her for a week or two Brenda was still reluctant to go out with him. She had told him she had kids and couldn't leave them and Kurt hired a babysitter. She told him she had to work that night and he offered to pay her salary.

So when she finally agreed to the date him, Kurt showed up at her house ready to leave, but the baby sitter had cancelled. So Kurt offered to take the kids with them. Brenda informed him that one of her kids was a paraplegic with Down Syndrome. Kurt didn't care. 

The reason why Brenda was so reluctant to tell him was that the father of the children and her first husband ran away. But not Kurt.

They went to the movies and whenever her son Zach needed to go to the washroom Kurt lifted him out of his wheelchair and helped him go. The kids loved Kurt.

Brenda knew that he was the man she was going to marry. In 1997 they did. 

During their honeymoon, Kurt got bit with a venomous spider on his throwing arm. This stopped him from trying out for the Chicago Bears. He still didn't give up. He played Arena Football and in the European League for awhile before he got his first NFL pre-season start for the St. Louis Rams when Trent Green got injured. You all know what happened from there.

Since they met they have had 5 kids including a pair of twins.

With all the controversy surrounding the NFL today with Adam Jones and Terrell Owens, it's great to see someone so talented be such a great guy.

So when you watch the Super Bowl on Sunday keep in mind this story.