![]() How will they live without this man, their teacher, mentor, confidant, big brother, uncle, father and friend? Some who I met when they were that young now tower over me. How will these boys survive without this man? Many of them are as young as 7. I am here for Coach Nell’s funeral, but really, I am here – in this city and with the team whose stories long ago crawled up to live inside my heart – to look for answers. He was 43.Īnd so I am back in Indiana, in the raw cold of winter. ![]() He had just secured a promise of a new practice field for the Indy Steelers. His own children were grown and gone to college. ![]() Police believe he was the victim of a road-rage shooting – one of more than 60 that now happen every year on interstates in central Indiana alone.Ĭoach Nell was at the age when he looked forward to a life spent watching football. ![]() It was a foggy, rainy evening, and he was the passenger in a white cargo van. He was not in Butler-Tarkington, the city neighborhood where he and his boys grew up on a knife’s edge, but in Greenwood, the suburb 14 miles away where I used to go to the mall. Indy Steelers coach Richard 'Coach Nell' Hamilton.
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