David Tyree of the New York Giants became an NFL hero with an amazingly improbable catch (against his own helmet) that clinched his team’s upset victory in the Superbowl. But Tyree doesn’t see Superbowl Sunday as the greatest day of his life—he gives that distinction to the time of a drug arrest in 2004. Busted with a half-pound of marijuana and locked in a rough stone cell, Tyree says he hit bottom after more than a decade of drug and alcohol abuse. Making a decisive commitment to Christian faith, he married the mother of his two illegitimate boys and they’re now regular churchgoers who are expecting twin girls. They also created a charitable foundation to help youngsters make better choices than Tyree as an adolescent. David Tyree’s inspiring story also offers important perspective on drug laws. Legalization of drugs wouldn’t be a way to help people like him, but rather would be a way to give up on them.