For the sake of aesthetics, sure, but for something else, too. Something new.
So the Brickley family got to painting inside their Salt Lake City home. They put down new carpet. They needed another positive jolt. During all this, Matt Brickley ended up rummaging around in his desk drawer one day. What he came across was one of several auspices in this unbelievable story filled with them.
It was a rookie card, 13 years old. There was a signed message on the back. It wasn’t to Matt or Ally. It was to their son, Daniel. A young promising hockey player from Utah wrote a message to a then 10-year-old.