LOS ANGELES – For once in his life, Jerimiah Spicer, had a chance to live out his dream. But if you rewind the clock in his life he could be found growing up on the streets of Skid Row.

“Man, I was barefooted. I actually got thrown in a trash can by mom’s friends,” Spicer said.

He would be taken from his mom at the age of 3. His mother eventually died on these very streets.

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“It’s hard. It’s to make it out if you don’t got no help, you know what I mean. People always attacking you for being in the situation you’re in,” Spicer said.

Spicer was just 16 years old when his grandmother passed away. At that point, he had nothing else to turn to but football.

“Football – it takes my pain away. It’s how I release my frustration without getting trouble,” Spicer said.

So, he worked and persevered through college. Now Spicer plays professional football with the L.A. Wildcats in the XFL.

“I related to his story so well. I want gritty tough, hard nose football players, and this man’s got it,” Head Coach Winston Moss said.

Even now Spicer isn’t just thinking about his self

“Somebody got to step up, the superstars ain’t doing it,” Spicer said.

Spicer is now focused on success with his football family so he can help rescue his own family from the streets trapped in a world most could never imagine.

On November 5, Spicer became a father and welcomed his newborn twins into the world.