LITTLE ROCK, Ark.
Someday, Corbin Barber will receive a yellow football helmet with a black W on the sides, covered by signatures in black ink. Joni Knol, his grandmother, will tell Corbin, born 18 months ago, the story of the helmet that belonged to Mike Knol, her older brother and a member of the 1970 Wichita State team.
The story will start with an ugly scar on the side of a mountain in Colorado, where 31 people died in a plane crash. The rest of the story involves Knol and his teammates and their friends and families remembering and honoring the dead.