'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America

The pop still echoes through Jarvis Jenkins' mind. Three months couldn't quiet the sound that seems as fresh as the bright scar that works its way up his right knee. Oh, Jenkins tries to forget the noise that exploded from his knee that August night in Baltimore.
"Deal with it," Larry replied. "And learn from it."
"I tell you what, I'm proud to be his father because of the character he's got," said Larry Jenkins, whose football career was derailed by poor grades and a knee injury. "If I had his character a long time ago, there's no telling what I might have been."