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Faith, family and football helped Mike MacIntyre through trying year

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One by one, people kept coming up to Mike MacIntyre to tell stories about his father.

At Nashville's Forest Hills Baptist Church, they told stories of long ago, when George MacIntyre coached them in high school or college football. They also told stories of lessons that George taught them; lessons that sometimes didn't register until a decade or two later, but still remain.

"I saw all those young guys that are now 40, 50 and 60 coming up there with story after story," Mike said in recalling the funeral of his father, who passed away on Jan.