We all remember where we were when we heard that Andrew Luck was retiring from the Indianapolis Colts and professional football. I was sitting in my apartment, on my couch feet propped up, drink in one hand, phone in the other talking with the other Stampede Blue writers in our writers chat. I put my daughter to bed earlier that evening and I was planning on enjoying the end of a bad preseason football game and going to bed. And then it happened.
I went through several stages of grieving (I wish I were joking) before landing on bargaining (I told myself it was temporary) and “writing” an article that got more attention than any article I had written before and more than I’m likely to ever get again.