Patrick Willis Video: Watch E:60’s Emotional Documentary on 49ers Superstar

Many know Patrick Willis as the best linebacker in football, an All-Pro and the leader of the San Francisco 49ers, but few know about the obstacles he's had to overcome that should have made his success impossible.

ESPN did an E:60 story on Willis called The Good Life. They reveal that Willis was abandoned by his mother at the age of four and grew up in a poverty stricken home with his abusive, drug addict father and three siblings.

Forced, at 10 year of age, to work in the cotton fields to support his father's drug and alcohol habits, Willis had every excuse in...

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