The Kansas City Chiefs may have lost a stunner on Thursday night to the Denver Broncos, but there was one moment which put a smile on every fan in Arrowhead Stadium that night. Strong safety Eric Berry, who had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma the previous season, had beaten the odds and returned to football only eight months later, cancer-free.
Berry, who remains the best story of the 2015 National Football League season, was introduced Thursday to a raucous Arrowhead crowd. His memory of the moment he emerged from the tunnel and onto the field? Per quotes provided by the Chiefs:
“I don’t know, I blacked out.