CLEARWATER, Fla. - It's an old joke, an old line:
Nobody beats up my brother - except for me.
If you're an older brother, you know the phrase by heart. If you're the younger brother, you know that its true meaning has less to do with violence than it has to do with love.
Big brothers give it to you straight up.
No cream. No sugar. Black.
"He's a guy I still look up to, a guy I still learn from," Aaron Nola was saying the other day about big brother Austin.