Twenty five years ago today, Chris an Iowa Hawkeye basketball play, was instantly killed in an accident while leaving a team dinner.
Through the years, there has been many newspaper articles about Chris and there is a recently published book.
I won't repeat those articles but want to tell you about my son meeting Chris.
When my son was 3 or 4, he went to a high school volleyball game with two high school girls that babysat for him and he was wearing Iowa State.
When he got home, he told me that this guy kept telling him he had the wrong shirt on and that he needed new shirts. He wasn't understanding what this guy was talking about so I asked him a few questions. I learned that the guy was "really really tall" and played basketball. The girls confirmed that it was Chris and that he had been trying to convert him to the Hawkeyes.
My son also has a few toy tractors with him and he and Chris played farm that night. They also disagreed about red vs green
Through the years, there has been many newspaper articles about Chris and there is a recently published book.
I won't repeat those articles but want to tell you about my son meeting Chris.
When my son was 3 or 4, he went to a high school volleyball game with two high school girls that babysat for him and he was wearing Iowa State.
When he got home, he told me that this guy kept telling him he had the wrong shirt on and that he needed new shirts. He wasn't understanding what this guy was talking about so I asked him a few questions. I learned that the guy was "really really tall" and played basketball. The girls confirmed that it was Chris and that he had been trying to convert him to the Hawkeyes.
My son also has a few toy tractors with him and he and Chris played farm that night. They also disagreed about red vs green
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