Under Armour helps a 14-year-old football player who needs size 23 shoes

A high school freshman from a small town about an hour northeast of Detroit has broken records with his feet.Fourteen-year-old Eric Kilburn Jr. plays football for his school, Goodrich High School, and stands at 6 feet, 10 inches tall. With his advantageous height, comes his size 23 feet.Kilburn says he cannot find shoes that fit him, resulting in constant pain."It's been painful. Say the least, it's been hellish, just not having shoes that fit perfectly, it's just been constant pain," he said.To fix this problem, athletic wear company Under Armour jumped in to help.Robb Cropp, a senior director for product development at Under Armour, flew out to Michigan to help create a custom shoe for Kilburn. "We're going to build the shoes from the ground up and we've got to build the machinery or the tooling we call it to make the shoes. It's going to take us probably about six to eight weeks to get all that done," Cropp said.Kilburn is looking forward to day-to-day life without pain, and of course, playing better in his next football season."I am going to be able to play better on the field, I am going to have shoes I am comfortable in, no blisters, no ingrown toenails, none of that stuff," he said.

GOODRICH, Mich. —

A high school freshman from a small town about an hour northeast of Detroit has broken records with his feet.

Fourteen-year-old Eric Kilburn Jr. plays football for his school, Goodrich High School, and stands at 6 feet, 10 inches tall. With his advantageous height, comes his size 23 feet.

Kilburn says he cannot find shoes that fit him, resulting in constant pain.

"It's been painful. Say the least, it's been hellish, just not having shoes that fit perfectly, it's just been constant pain," he said.

To fix this problem, athletic wear company Under Armour jumped in to help.

Robb Cropp, a senior director for product development at Under Armour, flew out to Michigan to help create a custom shoe for Kilburn.

"We're going to build the shoes from the ground up and we've got to build the machinery or the tooling we call it to make the shoes. It's going to take us probably about six to eight weeks to get all that done," Cropp said.

Kilburn is looking forward to day-to-day life without pain, and of course, playing better in his next football season.

"I am going to be able to play better on the field, I am going to have shoes I am comfortable in, no blisters, no ingrown toenails, none of that stuff," he said.