On Monday evening, Eugene Bright walked into his former high school as a Philadelphia Eagle.
There were high-fives and back slaps for the one-time Harriton Ram. Bright was being inducted into the Lower Merion school's Hall of Fame, but the praise had more to do with his suiting up for the local football team than it did for that night's honor.
"Gene had all these people coming up to him and congratulating him on making it this far," said Hal Smith, Bright's high school coach. "But he's too humble for that. And he's not the type of guy that's going to get ahead of himself. He knows he has a lot of work left." Continue
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