Where Are They Now? Abdul Muhammad

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Now 42, Muhammad sees those stories happening as the teen director of the Boys and Girls Club in North Omaha. He’s been doing it full time since 2010, after starting at the club four years before that. More than 300 kids walk through the doors each day. So much potential.


It was a trip to the barber shop that got him here. Terrence Mackey, who's been involved in the Boys and Girls Club for about 35 years now, goes to the same place — Quik Stop Barber Shop.

He knew Muhammad had been doing some coaching of a semi-pro team on the side. Mackey always ribbed him about it. “Get over there and help the kids,” Mackey told him. “Quit messing with those adults. They are past their prime. Come help some kids who will really appreciate it.”

Muhammad listened. He began as a volunteer. He knew quickly he wasn't about to stop showing up.

“I just gravitated to them from when I first saw them,” Muhammad says. “I know why (Mackey's) been here so long now. Because there’s so much talent here that if you consider yourself a coach, a mentor, and somebody that wants to give back to the kids in a community that need it, this is the best place to do it, without a doubt, right here, the Boys and Girls Club, the North Club.”

He puts emphasis on it: The NORTH CLUB. On 26th and Hamilton streets. The kind of place where a kid can go to study for a test or shoot a basketball or run sprints inside a mini football stadium with a track surrounding it.

You know, 16 members of Omaha North’s dominating Class A state championship football team last fall grew up coming to this Boys and Girls Club. Many of those 16 were starters. Omaha Central’s state football championship team in 2007 had its share of kids who played for the club’s youth team, too. And, oh, yeah, at least 30 regular club attendees received scholarships of some sort this past year.
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LJS

 
Great article.

When I was reading it, I remembered that there was a wingback right around that time that went back and visited his neighborhood and ended up getting shot in the butt. Was this him? I think it was but my memory is fuzzy.

 
BigRedBuster said:
Great article.

When I was reading it, I remembered that there was a wingback right around that time that went back and visited his neighborhood and ended up getting shot in the butt. Was this him? I think it was but my memory is fuzzy.
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Yep, Muhammad played the 1994 season with a bullet lodged in his butt. He was originally from Compton, and there were a lot of rumors about him having gang ties during his younger days.

 
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I always wondered how in the hell someone gets shot in the butt and the bullet lodges there. That bullet would have had to been going dang slow to just stop without doing major damage and blowing out the other side.

 
He could have had something in his back pocket - wallet, couple of pounds of weed, the play book . . . .

 
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