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The day is May 4, 2003. Jason Avant remembers it clearly, as if it were yesterday, which make perfect sense. It’s the day his life either ended or began, depending on how you interpret his story. “Something happened to me that I could not believe,” the Eagles’ wide receiver said. If it hadn’t happened, if he hadn’t heard God speak to him, Avant is convinced he wouldn’t be at the Georgia Dome today. He’s certain that his life would have ended sooner or later; either literally by gunshot wounds or figuratively by a life sentence behind bars in some state penitentiary. Avant, who partied hard and schmoozed harder with drug lords and gang kingpins in Southside Chicago for much of his …

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For Eagles’ Jason Avant, one voice changed everything

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