At this year’s ESPY Awards, the show runners decided to set aside a fifteen-minute segment to shift the focus from the athletes we treat like heroes to a person who truly embodies the word. Cincinnati Bengals player Devon Still has a 5-year-old daughter, and last year she was diagnosed with cancer. Since then, life has been a struggle for Devon, and an all out battle for his daughter. The ESPYs created a short video about Still’s story and aired it at the awards ceremony. However, it was the speech he gave afterwards that truly captured the emotional weight of his family’s experience.
Watch Devon Still’s Powerful ESPY Speech About His Daughter’s Cancer Battle
A truly inspiring story.
By Sean McdonaldJul 17, 2015
Sean Mcdonald
Sean McDonald is an audience development intern at GOOD. He is undeclared and loving it at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota.