The Croyles were honored with the President’s Award at the 51st annual Alabama Sports Writers Association convention on Sunday night at Jacksonville State.
His father, John Croyle, said it never crossed his mind that his sonTogether, the two former Alabama football stars and their families have helped more than 2,000 abandoned, neglected and/or abused children since John Croyle opened the Ranch in 1974.
“So many people ask about purpose and what it means and why we do what we do,” Brodie Croyle said recently. “I think so many times we think the answer for what to do next is going to fall from Heaven like manna from the sky. God can do that, but I think a lot of times you have to take a self-audit. “He came back the next summer and told me word for word what I had said,” he remembered. “I wish I could make it more complicated than that, but it’s really not. I went to see coach Bryant my senior year and told him I was thinking about passing up pro ball to build a ranch for children. He told me to go build that ranch and don’t look back.
“I didn’t realize it, but that little boy became my brother, was in my wedding,” Brodie Croyle said. “Later in life, you start thinking every little Joey deserves a chance to break the cycle, a chance to change generations to come. My wife and I feel like our life’s calling is to give kids a chance to be the next Joeys and let them go write the story God has for them. They just need someone to give them the chance.
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