The New Mr. Big At Bc

Coach Bicknell, a Presbyterian, says, "I told Mike, 'Is there anything wrong with being a rich priest?' "

Father Paul offers an open phone line. "If he wants to try the NFL, he should try it," he says. "I'd much rather have him try the NFL now and the priesthood later than vice versa."

One way or other, Killer is pretty sure he'll eventually be a priest. "He has the calling," she says.

Father Paul agrees. "I think," he says, "deep in the deepest part of Mike's heart, he knows he will."

But Ruth, he doesn't know. "It's going to come to me sometime," he says. "With God, it's hard to make definite plans. Until then, I'm just going to try and live my life right. Going to try to do the best I can. I think that's what everybody should do. Whether they're football players or priests or painters. Do the best they can. You get out of life what you put into it."

Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Well, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air; but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest...I myself should be disqualified.
—I Corinthians 9:24-27.