ST. JOSEPH
For reasons tangible and also reasons less so, 24-year-old Alyssa Crabtree of Platte City long had thought of safety Eric Berry as her favorite Chiefs player.
Partly it was because he’s so good and so fast. She also liked that they were about the same age.
Mostly, though, it was just that instinctive sense of connection we might feel to someone whose way we admire even if it’s hard to quantify, an affinity that’s instinctive as much as it is anything else.
Then in late June she developed a more discernible link to Berry, one she’ll feel forever.