Why did Ivory have a love/hate relationship with football? Ivory Christian is from Odessa, TX; he plays for the Permian Panthers. Ivory weighed 195 pounds and ran a 4.7 in the forty even though that is the perfect size for a football player, as a sixteen -year- old he still loved the game he tried so much to hate. The only reason he keeps playing football is to make his dad proud. He told his dad Ivory senior that he might not play ball in college even if he got offers. Ivory has been playing since he was eight years old. His dad had played football in Odessa in the sixties when there was an all-black high school in town called Blackshear. Its opponents were the all-black schools of Amarillo and Lubbock and Midland. Ivory senior
