My newspaper career has taken me on more than 200 road trips to 36 different states, including visits to every NFL stadium, six Super Bowls, four Final Fours, three national championship-deciding football games, the World Series and a Summer Olympics.
Driving back to my Akron hotel the night of Aug. 6 — having attended two Pro Football Hall of Fame celebration parties in Canton, Ohio, for Jaguars tackle Tony Boselli and Green Bay Packers safety LeRoy Butler — it became clear this was a working road trip for the ages.
There’ll never be another one like this.