(WHNT) — Strength, grit and determination are all words that we use to describe football and the athletes who play the game. The same can also be said about a brave young man named Reese Colburn. Reese was born with hypoplastic lotar syndrome, a rare heart condition, that required him to have three open heart surgeries all before his third birthday, and with a condition like this, Reese would be forced to fight his entire life, and he did exactly that.