Small Town Boy Brown Now Living Large

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CHARLOTTE (MCT) — The soccer games were finished that Saturday for Everette Brown and his younger brother, Tobias. Now it was time for their weekly treat: lunch at McDonald's on the way home.

But as their father, Odell, started the car for the short drive from Wilson to Stantonsburg in Eastern North Carolina, he turned to the boys. He was angry about what he thought was a poor effort given by Everette and Tobias — both still in elementary school — in their games that morning.

"If you can't go out there and push yourselves on the soccer field, you don't deserve McDonald's today," he said. "If you're going to lay back like that, you can spend your Saturdays at home cutting the grass and working in the yard."

Instead, Odell took the boys to a field next to their grandmother's house.

"Y'all ain't tired," he said. "So get out there and run!"

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