A story of one man’s life on the surface is all about football. Relentless, heroic, NFL linebacker who has it all. Steven Gleason is responsible for one of the most dramatic punt blocks in NFL history. His play ignited what is known as re-birth of an entire city.
After that same man is diagnosed with ALS, which is a progressive chronic disease where your brain loses its ability to communicate with the muscles in your body, he starts a video blog for his unborn son. In a hit documentary created in 2016, titled Gleason, viewers get an opportunity to see pieces of that video blog. This documentary takes you on a journey of a man who explores a deeper meaning to life. He explores faith, insecurities, fears, and the importance the father son relationship.
Steven Gleason takes his diagnosis and decides to live more, explore more, love more, and give more. The film is touching, and a true emotional journey through a life that’s getting progressively “worse,” life that’s supposed to “shut down and fail,” and, a life that has “nothing left to give.” Watch this film, and you will actually see a man who’s impact grows each day. A life that continues to give more, and hold back less. A life that triggers a foundation for patients with ALS, and scientists researching a cure for this terrible disease.
Learn more about Steven Gleason’s heroic story by watching Gleason.
