Jordan Phillips, who recently committed to play football at the University of Oklahoma, has been living with the Kinder family near Towanda in a situation that reminds many of the movie "The Blind Side."
Jordan Phillips was nursing swimmer's ear on a recent June afternoon. He sat on the couch, next to the woman he calls mom, mama, mother — depending on what he wants from her — clutching two throw pillows against his chest.
His mom leaned over and quietly told Phillips, a 6-foot-6, 300-pound nationally- prominent football player at Circle High, that he needed to turn off his cell phone so there would be no interruptions.
It was a classic mom move by Shelley Kinder, who moved fairly seamlessly into the role of Phillips' mother in 2007 when he moved into the family's home.
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