Before the last Super Bowl, Tommy Nobis' family tried to tell him that his old team, Atlanta, was in the game. The organization that called him Mr. Falcon. The franchise he gave 11 outstanding seasons, and received less in the exchange.
The team right there, in red and black.
Nothing.
"It's sad what football has done to these players," Nobis' wife, Lynn, told the Houston Chronicle. "But I know he loved it more than anything.
"He wouldn't have had it any other way."
Growing up in San Antonio, Nobis so loved football, he bused across town to Jefferson to play there.