On Friday evening, Xavier Edwards stood in Academy Sports + Outdoors on Airport Boulevard in Mobile trying to make up his mind. The two footballs were staying in the shopping cart, but he had some other decisions that were “really hard.”
A 9-year-old who’ll be in the fourth grade at Dixon Elementary School in Irvington this year, Edwards had to figure out how to spend $250 before he left Academy.
On Friday, Edwards had been looking forward to attending AJ McCarron’s free football camp on Saturday at Mobile Christian School. Although the camp will be McCarron’s 10th annual event, Edwards would be attending for the first time…