DETROIT - When Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Michael Gallup woke up Sunday morning, he said he spoke to his brother, Andrew.
"I was like, Andy, we here baby. Got to go play some ball,'" Gallup recalled while walking up the tunnel inside Ford Field to the team buses after Dallas' 35-27 win over the Detroit Lions Sunday. "I told him, 'We're going to play the game for you, make sure we have a game.'
"That's what I did, so it was a good day."
Gallup would give anything to have that conversation in person, but a year ago, Andrew died by suicide.