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Taylor gets a shot and gives it to jack, here he goes. got blockers out in front. he is running midfield. look will have to this crowd. and the young man --. >> heather: going all the way. seven years old. his name is jack hospitalizeman and the team lifts him up there -- hoffman. this is just definitely something. >> its true spirit of sports, right. >> yeah, it is. we hear so many bad things that go on in sports and dominates the headlines. we've been through all the abuse stuff by jerry sandusky and mike rice at coach at rutgers and how he was treating some of the

>> sure. >> the realty when i read it, i didn't get that sense at all. i got a sense that i think you hit the nail on the head. cathartic, something you've been wanting to get out there. and you just thought, you know something, i'm not going to do this. >> that's a fair assessment. when they came -- came to me to write a book, first of all, i was honored to do it. it was kind of overwhelming. but once i started, i said, you know, i have a chance here. i have a chance to do a host of things. let people know who have been judgmental over the years about me and my position to say, you know what,...

Challenges and their abuse, hey, i'm very happy. i've gotten hundreds and hundreds of calls from people saying it happened to me, happened to my brother, my sister. that's all good. i'm excited about that. >> did part of you think i should talk about this before other people do? as your star rises? that was in the back of your mind? >> not with the abuse stuff. the shoplifting stuff, it was out there a little bit. the parental -- you know, the battles, the divorces and everything, that's been kind of out there. i wanted to set the record straight in my own words and not have anybody misreprese...