Last Friday night, Michelle Brown must have been beaming ear-to-ear from her newly-anointed seat in Heaven. Twenty-four hours after her death following a valiant battle against breast cancer, her son, Alex, the senior quarterback for the Red Bank Catholic Caseys, took the field in a first-round playoff game with a heavy heart and a singular purpose: Honor Thy Mother.
And he did.
Alex Brown who will attend college at, and play football for, Bucknell next year, channeled all his love and all his grief into a performance for the ages. Brown's favored Caseys defeated Morris Catholic 58-34. Brown accounted for eight touchdowns. He threw six touchdown passes and ran, himself, for two more.
The day Michelle Brown died, Alex posted a tribute to her on his Twitter page, noting that his mom had waged her desperate battle against cancer for fourteen years, had defied all odds in living as long as she had, and had always been not simply his mom but his best friend and the best teacher he had ever had.
Michelle Brown imbued her son with her warrior spirit. Last Friday night, he honored her life in the only true way he knew how, which was the way she had taught him. An extraordinary woman. An extraordinary young man.
Warriors both.
-AK
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