Cody Rye's story featured
BIG BAY -- The ESPN crew recently came to the U.P. to film a human interest story on a local football player.
During a visit of U.P. All-Star athletes to Bay Cliff Health Camp, ESPN filmed footage for an upcoming E:60 story.
The producer doing the story says he was inspired by a newspaper article about a young man who decided to take up the game of football even after he was paralyzed from the waist down.
"I can't believe, for me, that a wheelchair gets wheeled on a field with a kid--not wheeling somebody off who got injured--but a young man who has so much passion and heart to bring himself to want to play football," said Senior Producer Ben Houser. "It was just undeniable. So ESPN had to come here and tell Cody Rye's story."
Houser has previously done a story on a blind football player from Kansas.
Cody's story will air sometime this fall.
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