Back in January, we brought you the story of Janoris Jenkins, the latest in a staggering list of football superstars to emerge from the small towns around Lake Okeechobee, about 80 miles northwest of Miami. Like Fred Taylor and Anquan Boldin before him, Jenkins joined the pantheon of football greats from Pahokee and its Muck Bowl rival, Belle Glade, when he started all season for the Florida Gators as a true freshman at cornerback. As of this weekend, it looks like Jenkins has joined another, le
A few miles north of Miami, on the swampy edges of Lake Okeechobee, there are a couple of impoverished little towns called Pahokee and Belle Glade where they churn out gasp-inducing football talent like a cash crop. Without much else to do, the kids chase and skin rabbits and play pigskin in the nation's best high school rivalry, the beautifully named Muck Bowl.
There were so many South Florida connections in yesterday's Super Bowl -- from big-time UM alums Edgerrin James and
