How old was Jasmine Plummer when she made football history?
Half a continent away from home, the shy quarterback dressed quietly in a bathroom, away from the rest of the team. When the signal-caller emerged for the big game, all eyes followed. The Pop Warner Super Bowl at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Florida was a big-enough deal for an 11-year-old from small-town Harvey, Ill. The added attention just made the quarterback nervous. But as was often the case, something happened when the quarterback took the field–the whispers became a roar, and the quarterback turned ferocious, demanding and in control, a consummate leader. The game later became a defensive battle marred by turnovers and a mostly stalled running game, but it didn’t matter. With the first whistle, the ferocious quarterback had made history. Almost five years later, that quarterback is again far away from home, standing in the lobby of a Westwood, Calif., movie theater swarmed by flashing bulbs, Hollywood backslappers and stars like Ice Cube and Tyler Perry. But this t
