It was March of last year, 2018, when Tom Benson boogied off this mortal coil and was off to his eternal rest. A well-deserved and hard-earned vacation for a man who said, “Some people like to play golf; I like to come to work.”
The story of Tom Benson is that of a man who was in love with a city. It’s also the story of a man who almost single-handedly saved a thing that was at the center of that city.
He took one of the most poorly run sports franchises of its day and made it into a thing that every man woman and child in the city that held his heart could show to the rest of the world and say “This awesome, terrifying and powerful thing that conquered those before it this year, this thing is ours!