More from The Q&A with Felix Jones
Former Tulsa Washington High football standout Felix Jones is back in his hometown this weekend for a big-time event.
It is the Dallas Cowboys tailback’s inaugural charity weekend, which benefits the “Mentoring to the Max” program in Tulsa. And Jones didn’t start out small. He is doing a three-day event that is packed to the max. The schedule included a youth football camp, a concert at the BOK Center, a VIP gathering and an outing that involved Jones’ latest athletic endeavor — golf.
Jenni Carlson: How’s your golf game?
Felix Jones: I’m still working on that. I’m inexperienced, but I’ve been trying to practice. I’ve been hitting balls in my backyard and putting.
JC: I have to think with your strength, you’re pretty good off the tee.
FJ: If I can keep the ball straight, I’ll be real good at it.
JC: It’s your charity event. You should be able to have someone out there kicking it into the fairway.
FJ: I think I might use that. I might have somebody out there with another ball. (Laughs.)
JC: So, what’s the goal for the weekend?
FJ: You just want to show them a better way. That’s what I’m trying to accomplish — show them that if you do everything right right now, as you get older things tend to work out for you for the better. If you have someone there to tell you and show you, maybe it’ll be a lot easier. That’s my goal for the weekend — to maybe show them a better way.
JC: Your rookie season last year got off to such a good start before the toe injury sidelined you. Will you be ready to go when the madness starts again this fall?
FJ: Absolutely. I think I’ll be a hundred percent. I’ll be feeling great. I’ll be ready to roll.
JC: It had to be tough to end such a promising season with an injury.
FJ: It was. It was going real well with the team. Things just didn’t work out for me like I planned, but I believe it’ll help me out, make me better and a lot stronger than what I was before. I know at any time it can be taken away, so I think I learned a valuable lesson from this year getting hurt in how to take care of myself a little better.
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