Here’s a tearjerker for the high school football crowd, thanks to Steve Lyttle at the Charlotte Observer.
Jack Mowrey is the long snapper for Ardrey Kell (N.C.) in Charlotte. This season he’s doing something special with every snap he takes – raising money for David Kunz, who had been his best friend and teammate before dying of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma last summer.
Kunz was first diagnosed in January, 2020 when doctors in Florida discovered a lump on his neck. He went through several rounds of radiation and chemotherapy and appeared to have beaten it – ringing the bell in May of that year. Sadly, Kunz suffered a relapse that puzzled his doctors. He died on Aug. 6, 2021.
