It wasn’t that he wanted the dollars for himself, but rather for use to help a blighted area become a brighter place. It’s what gave him pause to consider leaving school early and getting paid handsomely by some NFL team in dire need of his talents. The aching desire in his voice is unmistakable. I want to have programs for them and have overnight stays and camping trips. “So I want to open it up and put a lot of stuff in there. A lot of them get into trouble because they don’t have anything to do. I see them walking around all the time or riding bikes. “I want to do it for them and for the kids. Some of the older guys I used to look up to when I was little now look up to me. “When I go home, people always ask me about it, people on the streets,” said Chancellor, a native of Park Place and the neighborhood’s top success story. Kam Chancellor gazes longingly at it and sees it for what it was – and what it could be. Most would glance at the building and simply see it for what it is. Like many things these days, it became an economic casualty. It’s no longer a home, overcome by the world’s burdens. It was a safe haven, an escape from the cruelties of a harsh world not of the makings of the ones who frequented there. But for so many, it was much more than that. It used to be a Boys and Girls Club, a thriving one at that. The shabby building sits on the corner of a crime-infested neighborhood known as Park Place in the western portion of the city of Norfolk.
Kam Chancellor wants to play in the NFL and then use his salary to rebuild an old Boys and Girls Club in a rugged area of his hometown.
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