“A lot of us want to help,” Rolf Benirschke was saying Friday, “and don’t know exactly what to do.”
The former San Diego Chargers kicker was on the phone. Emotions welled up, causing him to pause, cracking his voice.
Benirschke, 65, was in the midst of drawing a comparison between how fellow San Diegans responded to his own health crisis 40 years ago — when he said an infection should’ve killed him — with how locals are rallying today in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
“You see people making masks for the health care workers, you see people dropping off food and donating blood,” he said.