GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The group chat will forever remain in Peter Mortell's iPhone messages. Not only can he not delete it -- just as he cannot stop referring to Mike Sadler and Sam Foltz in the present tense, struggling to accept that they are really gone -- he cannot stop adding to the conversation.
"They might not respond," the Green Bay Packers rookie punter said Tuesday, "but I know they're reading it."
Sadler and Foltz were killed in a one-car crash just outside of Milwaukee on Saturday night, when authorities say their vehicle skidded off a rain-slicked road and struck a tree.