![]() ![]() On this night in Nebraska, the friends broke the seal. And over there, near the Herbie Husker mural, was the nation’s leading voice on sports-related brain trauma, the man CNN called when Tua Tagovailoa suited up after a concussion last season and Newsweek interviewed after Aaron Hernandez killed himself in prison. One was a federal air marshal until he couldn’t stand the boredom. Another ex-roommate has written jokes for Jimmy Kimmel. The carnival kid is Harvard’s defensive coordinator now. ![]() If football teams are sports’ biggest tribe and produce unbreakable bonds, the friendships grow that much tighter when they involve sharing a refrigerator and toilet. Old roommates keep certain memories locked away, untouched until they’re together again. But the same nonsense made them laugh: the teammate from California who wet the bed, the kid whose family ran a traveling carnival, the time a traffic cone mysteriously appeared in their living room after a night of drinking. Now they were in their mid-40s, their broad shoulders rounded, their hairlines giving way to the beach erosion of time. ![]() Most of them had played football at Harvard in the late 1990s. Deep Reads features The Washington Post’s best immersive reporting and narrative writing.Ībout a year ago, a bunch of old college roommates met up at a tavern in rural Nebraska. ![]()
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