Ford Wade didn’t miss the bus — and the ride is just beginning

Ford Wade almost missed the bus. Not figuratively. He actually missed the bus. It was near the end of Wade’s sixth-grade year at Oxford when the middle school football coaches came to pick up prospective players for an interest meeting. Wade, who had always considered himself a baseball player, missed the bus carrying the football players. For a moment, he wondered if somebody might be trying to tell him something. “I was like, ‘Oh, maybe this is my sign not to play football because I’d always played baseball,’” Wade remembered. Fortunately, there was another bus. Wade didn’t know it was…