20 years later, 'blessed' Herring believes he made right decision not to play ... - Deseret News
OREM — Twenty years after making a decision that shocked the National Football League — and plenty of other people — Eli Herring wants the world to know he’s been abundantly blessed. “There was never a regret,” he said this week, just days before the start of the 2015 NFL draft, which will transform college kids into multimillionaires. But when he’s asked, he’ll share his powerful religious convictions that led him to turn down an opportunity for a lucrative career in the NFL in order to avoid playing on Sundays and to keep the Sabbath Day holy. Based on what’s transpired over the past two decades, Herring has no doubt that the decision he made was the right one for him and his family. “The main thing is that I know something now that I was acting on faith on 20 years ago,” he said. For Herring, 45, a math teacher and assistant football coach at Mountain View High School as well as a member of an LDS stake presidency in Orem, the evidence of that truth is all around him. This week the father of seven children sat in his small office at his modest home, reflecting on the impact that choice has had on him over the past 20 years. Herring is surrounded by shelves of books, mementos from the seven years he served as an LDS bishop and family photos — but, curiously, no memorabilia from his days playing football at BYU. Source: www.deseretnews.com
