KANSAS CITY • She said the line quickly, not giving the words enough time to marinate.
The line didn’t even hit me until I heard it the second time, on my recorder.
Missy Pinkel had walked off the field holding her husband’s hand, but now she was alone, a first down away from a live television broadcaster, detailing her husband’s cancer.
I asked her about the emotions of the night here — Gary Pinkel winning his first game after revealing he has non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
“I just love him to death,” his wife said.