“College football became my gateway to understanding my new home. College football, to me, was America at its best, wildest and funnest.” JeongPark52 struggled to adapt as a “parachute kid” in the U.S. — until he discovered football.
In February 2006, I landed at Los Angeles International Airport for what I thought was a brief trip to Disneyland.Jeong Park and his mother at SeaWorld in February 2006, soon after Park landed in the U.S. for what turned out to be a 16-year stay while his parents remained in South Korea.
The six months I had spent in Korea listening to English instruction tapes proved spectacularly useless. Other kids sneered at me. Interactions with my roommates mostly took the form of them yelling at me to be quiet. I tried listening to rap. But my classmates laughed when I professed a liking for 2Pac, telling me I was “fresh off the boat” and would never truly understand his songs. I tried listening to Iron Maiden. That didn’t work either.
For me, the South wasn’t the cultural wasteland that some of my classmates thought it was. After all, it was the home of the 12th Man , the Swamp and Toomer’s Corner . Looking back, I think I saw myself in the Broncos — someone outside the system trying to prove themselves to the system. In 2010, when I found out I was an undocumented immigrant, the Broncos were becoming a legitimate national title contender. I clung to my fandom even more.
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