Tim Ellsworth

Bobby Martin may have been born without legs, but that hasn’t stopped him from playing football. A senior at Colonel White High School in Dayton, Ohio, Martin plays on the punt return squad and uses his arms to move down the field.

Unfortunately, at halftime of a recent game, officials said he couldn’t finish the game because he wasn’t wearing the required shoes, thigh pads and knee pads (duh, it’s kinda hard for someone without legs to wear such items).

“It’s the first time in my life I ever felt like that,” Martin said. “Everybody was looking at me, talking about what I didn’t have. I felt like a clown. I hated it. I just wanted to know why it was different this game than all the rest.”

But the state’s athletic association has admitted the game’s officials made a mistake, and Martin has been cleared to play the rest of the season.