Now it’s my friend, Jim Kiick, who is gone, isolated for weeks in his assisted-living facility, able to talk with friends and family only through a window on a telephone, with a mind they feared that didn’t let him to fully understand the Coronavirus or why he couldn’t leave his room.
Slowly, sadly, we’re losing them. Don Shula, the chisel-jawed face of South Florida, went last month. Jim Langer, as tough as they came, and Nick Buoniconti, whose second act was greater than his Hall of Fame football act, left last summer.
Our greatest Dolphins generation is leaving the lineup.