Jamal Merrell

Like, if he's going to college for full scholarship football, the twin thing kicked in.

I call it the twin effect.

I was like, man, I'm going to play football and be with my brother.

So we both took our visits for football, and we both committed to Rutgers.

Yep.

We're going to circle back on that.

Yeah, that big decision was focused on football as well.

Obviously, my dad and mom wanted us to learn a trade.

Because if high school or college never worked out, we could still fall back on a trade.

I think that was just a plus.

So I took up electrical.

And then after sophomore year, I was like, my dad taught me everything about electrical.

So I'm going to take up dental lab, something different.

But at the same time,

a vo-tech school, we chose Hudson because it was not known at the time.

It was all the schools was like Middletown, Concord, um, Cesar Rodney at the time.

And I was like, Hmm, nobody knows about Hudson football.

I mean, it was on their chart, but not no championships, nothing crazy.

I mean, my brother was like, we always like a challenge.

So we went there and just took off from there.