Star football player steps out of his comfort zone

finally tonight you can't judge a book by its cover or we might add a football player by his Jersey here Steve Hartman on the road in Athens Georgia in the bestseller section of this Barnes & Noble Kathi rackley found a novel story of her own I mean a chance encounter in a bookstore how wonderful is that did you have any idea at all who he was none and you didn't tell her I didn't but I know they're gonna find out yeah but I wasn't I saying fact is Kathy may have been the only one in Athens who didn't know the name Malcolm Mitchell number 26 for the University of Georgia Bulldogs was one of the top recruits in the country a few years ago he's Georgia royalty and presumably if Kathy had known that she wouldn't have stood in that Barnes & Noble talking is ear off about the book club she'd just joined I mean he like stepped back and he said you did and he said can I join your book club and I said I don't know if you want to join mine we're all 40 50 and 60 year old women but Malcolm was undeterred so now one of the top wide receivers in the country meets monthly with his book club lady friends oh yeah and then he went to the wedding I love that he's the only man and the youngest by a generation but Malcolm doesn't care nor does he care what anyone thinks somebody called me a nerd it's not a word that I'm just a hearing is it okay though are you okay with the label I was proud of it great it's like a badge of honor to me know why I came from Malcolm confessed to me that when he started college he could only read at about a junior high level and it bothered him so he started putting as much effort into his reading game as his football game every free moment he had a book in his hand he's now reading things he never dreamed he could and although some of the book club selections he would never pick himself Malcolm seems to enjoy them all yeah then it was great looking at your life now all you've accomplished what are you most proud of I finished a hugger game series in about two days reading The Hunger Games yeah have you seen any of the footage if you scored touchdowns that's not your most proud moment that came natural that's a gift I had to work to read but his greatest talent may lie in his ability to step so outside his comfort zone to be able to meet people and focus so sincerely on what they have in common instead of their trivial differences sometimes football makes great men and sometimes great men just happened to play football Steve Hartman on the road in Athens Georgia and that's the CBS Evening News for tonight for all of us at CBS news all around the world I'm Scott Pelley I'll see you Sunday on 60 minutes good night

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Length: 3min 19sec (199 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 12 2014