The Blind Side, however, Anthony Trucks most decidedly did not go on to a long and in the NFL. In fact, for all the hardship of his upbringing, the most difficult part of his life only came after he put on a professional uniform.Now a motivational speaker, podcast host, author and founder of , Trucks was originally placed in foster care at age 3.
For more than a decade he would be shuttled from home to home around California’s Bay Area, leaving him and unworthy. Trucks’ life changed for the better when at 14 he was adopted.
Soon after, when he got to high school, he fell in love with athletics. It was a whole new world for him.“I wasn’t allowed to play team sports when I was in foster care,” he says. “And I’m also the only Black kid in an all-white family of non-athletes.
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