Watching the "Pat Tillman: A Football Life," which premieres this week on the NFL Network, is like looking through family photo albums. Even though we’ve seen the pictures and heard most of the stories, somehow it feels good to laugh, cry and remember.
Biologically, Tillman wasn’t a member of our families. But biology sometimes is overrated.
Most of us felt like we knew him, first as a football player for Arizona State and the Cardinals, then as the hero who forfeited millions to become an Army Ranger.
We followed his story as it happened, then read books and watched documentaries about Tillman after he was killed in Afghanistan.