When you spend 20 years as part of one team’s radio broadcast crew, you meet an awful lot of players who come and go.
Relationships are formed and some even become friends after football.
One of the special ones was Rashaan Salaam, and the news of his passing early Tuesday hit like a sledgehammer.
The cynical and disappointed Bears fans of the 90's will probably remember him as another failed No. 1 draft choice and that is a true shame.
Salaam was one of the great running backs, a Heisman Trophy winner in 1994 and the NFC’s Offensive Rookie of the Year in 1995 after the Bears tabbed him with the 21st pick in the draft.