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A family unites for the Super Bowl for a momentary escape from tragedy

Found January 24, 2013 on Players View: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Patrick Willis,  Ray Lewis,  Joe Flacco,  Colin Kaepernick
TEAMS: San Francisco 49ers,  Baltimore Ravens,  New England Patriots

We are not Jim and John. Neither of us coach the Baltimore Ravens or the San Francisco 49ers.

We never played in the NFL.  We live vicariously through players like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers, Arian Foster and Adrian Peterson, Calvin Johnson and Andre Johnson, imagining every Sunday, placing ourselves in the cleats, pads and jerseys of the games greats, deriving an entire range of emotion based on their performance.

With the 2012 NFL season coming to an end, my brother and I will join forces for one final Sunday, as we’ll sit side-by-side watching Super Bowl XLVII.

And it will give as moment to escape from the dark cloud that hangs over our head.

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