- Jan 2019
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Tommy Haskell was the tight ends coach and wrote the teamnewsletter. Mike Cawley set up the after-game beer parties.Danny Suhr, the first fireman to die that day, was thetreasurer. Offensive coordinator Mike Stackpole lost hisbrother, Tim. Linebacker Zach Fletcher lost his twin brother,Andre.
Everyone on the team was important to this team just like how every one of them was important at work. They all impacted every other member of their team and then everybody lost someone special. Even if they didn't all lose their real family members they lost people that have basically became their family and who they worked and played with everyday.
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But how? Forget about replacing the players. How do you replacethe men? How does starting cornerback Danny Foley replace thestarting cornerback on the other side--his brother, Tommy?
These guys were more than just a team and they are more than coworkers. The work and sports brought them together to become a family. Some were family already when tragedy struck it wasn't losing the players on the team they were worried about it was their family they lost that worried them.
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You cry together at enoughfunerals, you figure you can bleed together on a football field,too. One thing about firemen, they don't let each other fightbattles alone.
This part stood out to me because it really shows how much of a family they are. They lost some of their family and their team but they still have each others backs. No matter what they stuck together because they weren't just coworkers or teammates, they were family.
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