freep.com - 2/25/2008
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Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Larry Foote, who grew up in Detroit, is haunted by the story of 10-year-old Mark Brown, whose frozen body was pulled from a Rouge River tributary. Foote, who lives in metro Detroit in the NFL off-season, called the Free Press Sunday wanting to help with funeral expenses. "This really hit home because I grew up not too far from there, and I used to play on that ...
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... Just a quick post here to highlight something I think will otherwise go unnoticed amidst all the talk about the NFL Combine this week: That is, this story about linebacker Larry Foote and the Steelers donating money to the family of a 10-year old boy who recently drowned in Foote's native Detroit. ...
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