Vikings backup quarterback Shaun Hill has placed himself at the center of football’s most important story: player safety.
He’s an employee of a league that has spent recent years defending its reputation and history as it relates to concussions and overall brain health. But he’s also a father of two very young boys — he’s shown here pictured with Theo, then 18 months old, at last year’s training camp in July — and has roots in a small Midwest town.
Parsons, Kansas — a town of 10,000 and from what I remember of a long ago youth baseball tournament I played there, the very definition of the heartland — is the setting.