With his NFL career virtually over, Dothan’s Marquez White was just trying to make ends meet.
“At that point I was at the lowest point of my life,” White said. “I was 23 years old and I had never not been a part of a team sport, so I didn’t know what it felt like to be on my own, not going to practice, not having that structure.”
People are also reading… It all started when White, who played football and basketball at FSU and was drafted in the NFL by the Dallas Cowboys, returned to his hometown needing a way to make money after being released by the Cowboys in 2018 and not latching on with another team. Parked in the backyard of his grandparent’s home was a transportation bus that the two converted into a food truck to help feed needing people in the community.
“But after that they never really did anything with it and it was sitting in the backyard. I was like, ‘Granddad, let me buy the food truck from you.’ He was like, ‘Baby, you don’t have to buy anything from me; just give me a dollar for the bill sale and a hug and that’s it.’” “When I got arrested it was one of the most surreal things because I was at football practice,” White said. “I was on the field in 7-on-7 drills and the U.S. Marshals came out arrested me in front of the media, and everything.
“I turned the propane on and got ready to light it and I really didn’t know anything about cooking,” White said. “So when I lit it, it just lit on fire and we almost burned the whole truck down, actually. I had to get the fire extinguisher to put it out and we had to close for the day. That was my first day being open. I lost all of the product that was in there.”“Nah, but people still supported me,” White said.
“We want to serve the best, most consistent chicken wings in the world,” White said. “That’s on our business model.”
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