Fans cheered. Kids beamed as they watched their idols jog on the field. It was the beginning a typical football game. Except it wasn’t.
Hours earlier, a car drove through a police blockade at Hall of Fame and Main, where the annual homecoming parade took place. Four people died as a result.
Glidden, an Oklahoma State receiver, knew the magnitude of the game. The players had a chance to provide a means to heal for a city in anguish after its third catastrophe in 15 years.
“We definitely took that (role) that day,” he said. “We’ve still kind of held on to that.