The Fire Inside: An LA family road trip

Honoring one of Chicago’s own on our Los Angeles road trip

There was a moment on Saturday evening when all that it means to be on the road with your team came into sharp focus.

It was the end of halftime at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles. Sitting high in one corner of the stadium, along with traveling management and our special guest for the weekend — longtime team volunteer Kris Corless — I was watching the teams jogging out for the second half.

The spectacular stadium lightshow swept across the stadium, catching the swaying crowd of black and gold who were chanting boisterously down to our left. Now, as our players ran into their huddle, tiny in the center of the field, and as the…