Sometime during the week after the death of former New Orleans Saints defensive standout Will Smith was when Keenan Lewis and longtime friend Dennis Christopher talked on the phone.
The conversation was like many others. Only this time, they needed to take immediate action.
Saints coach Sean Payton and former players Jonathan Vilma and Malcolm Jenkins spoke at the service in the Saenger Theater.
Their bigger plan -- to someday open a boys and girls club at which they can teach conflict resolution techniques they hope could someday curb the gun violence now prevalent in New Orleans -- would come later.