I say, put him in Canton.

On the day that my family moved from Syracuse back to Buffalo — just over a year ago, now — I was excited when, in the course of the drive, my radio finally managed to pull in Buffalo’s sports-talk station, WGR. This made me happy because I finally got to hear the Jim Rome Show again (it had not been available in Syracuse at the time, unless it aired on a tape delay at an odd time). And I’ve never forgotten the feature story on Rome’s show that day: an interview with the agent of Pat Tillman, a player for the Arizona Cardinals, who had left football to sign up with the Army Rangers in the wake of 9-11-01.

It was a moving story of a patriot who set aside career for service to his country, and today the story received a postscript that I had never hoped to read.

Pat Tillman was killed in action in Afghanistan.