“Wow, this is cool,” he said as his shoes met the turf, causing memories to come rushing back.
He reached for his cell phone.
There was a photo he wanted to show.
The shot was taken right over there, Becht gestured this week, where the St. Louis Rams used to storm through the tunnel to take the field before home games.
In the picture he is 14 years younger, wearing his pads and Rams uniform, reaching up from the field to hug his five-year-old son and three-year-old daughter in the first row.
The little boy is now a quarterback at Iowa State.