Tedy Bruschi: After Tragedy, a Chance to Make History

You can say that the upcoming Super Bowl is big, but that probably doesn't make it any more meaningful than that first game back to Tedy Bruschi.

Maybe the Super Bowl is the most meaningful game of the Patriots season, but of Bruschi's career? Hell, it's just like every other game, because each game means the same thing.

It means he's back doing what he loves.

Bruschi realizes that he's lucky, but more-so, he realizes that he's a role model, and a success story that every stroke survivor can look up to and say "if Tedy can do it, why can't I?" 

With that, Tedy, just go out there on Sunday, and give it your all.

Go out there and give it your all for Anne, Heidi, your sons, the doctors and everyone who supported you during your recovery.

Go out there and give it your all for every stroke survivor that your story gave a small glimmer of hope to.

Go out there and give it your all for my grandmother, Edith Agnes Willard, who died of a stroke in October of 2004, and everyone else who lost a family member to a stroke.

Go out and give it your all for Geoff Gignac and MaryLou Peters, two friends who are stuck in the recovery process, and everyone else forced to recover from such a potentially debilitating injury.

But most importantly, give it your all, not for 19-0, another ring, or a place in history—but because you love the game of football and your family so much, because you persevered when the going got tough, and because -in a time of so much negativity—you gave everyone a little glimmer of hope, as to what love—the love of a game, the love from the fans, or the love of your family can do.

Thank you Tedy Bruschi.

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