71.   Grove, agonizing over the news that her son had HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, went back to the pastor a year later.

72.   Grit Young says he knew early on his son had special talent.

73.   He did not object to the domestic gun controls imposed by his wife, who would not let their four sons have even toy pistols.

74.   He figured his son would have to be pretty hardy to survive.

75.   He coached his son at Seminole High School in Sanford, Fla., and knew that his son had the raw material to make it in the NFL.

76.   He said his son sometimes had spells in which his heart would race, but was told by doctors he was in no danger playing sports.

77.   He even wrote to a Clinton administration official whose son has cerebal palsy, saying he would like to help her if there was anything he could do.

78.   He said his son had an on-and-off relationship with a black woman and was not a racist.

79.   He recalls his mother cooking extra food at dinner so her son would have a substantial midday meal the next day while she was at work.

80.   He traveled so often that his two teenage sons had no idea where he was.