Preseason football is meaningless to many of you. But it means everything to T.Y. and Sara McGill and their 1- and 2-year-old daughters.
"Sara's been with me every step of the way, from girlfriend to fiancée to now my wife," said McGill Jr., the Vikings' 29-year-old journeyman defensive lineman. "There's times I got cut, Sara's packing up our stuff and I'm already on a plane practicing the next day somewhere else. That's the kind of support you need when you're a guy like me trying to stay in this business."
McGill, an eight-year veteran, would be long gone if not for the fact the NFL still has three opportunities a year for guys like him to be evaluated playing live, full-go-to-the-ground football while fans and reporters whine about the preseason games being boring for nine hours a year.