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Steeler to help pay for drowned boy's funeral | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

One For The Other Thumb found this 2/25/2008 on freep.com

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 ...