Faith. Family. Football. Fort Lauderdale. That’s the Isaac Bruce story, starting when he was still inside his mother and she read the Bible to him daily.

Kairethiatic Bruce read to all 15 of her children like that before they were born. She then read from Proverbs each day as they readied for school.

That faith took root enough for several of them grew up to do ministry work, including the 13th of her children, named for Abraham and Sarah’s Old Testament son and blessed with speed unlike any other sibling.

Isaac always carried that faith and family with him as he rose in football. He read the Bible before each game. He followed a plant-based diet from the writings in Leviticus. He called siblings until reaching an older sister, Juliana Joseph, after tweaking a hamstring before the 1999

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