Stedman Bailey, after the bullets
On Nov. 24, 2015, Stedman Bailey’s life changed forever.
He was shot in the head twice. His skull shattered. Blood gushed. The grisly play by play remains forever fresh in his mind.
“Like a war zone,” Bailey told me once. “Call of Duty, but you’re really there.”
Miraculously, the NFL wide receiver survived. In 2018, I spent a few days with Bailey out in California for a story and he opened up on everything. At the time, he was hoping to make an NFL comeback. “I have a divine purpose to be here,” Bailey said back then. “You don’t just survive those shots and walk around normal. I feel like we…
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