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Dan Campbell dedicates game ball to Oxford: 'Special things happen in special circumstances'

Dan Campbell held a football in his right hand and raised it above his head.

The Detroit Lions had just beaten the Minnesota Vikings, 29-27, for their first win of the season — Campbell's first win as head coach — and as Campbell stood at the lectern for his postgame news conference, he dedicated a game ball to the community of Oxford five days after a shooting at Oxford High terrorized the nation.

"I just, I want us to not forget these names," Campbell said, naming the shooting victims — four dead and seven injured — one by one.