re: 12 years ago today Wally Pontiff passed away

My family and the Pontiffs have known each other long before I was born. I had just finished up summer football workouts at Brother Martin and was walking to my car to head home when my dad had called me to tell me. I probably sat in my car for about 30 minutes crying/questioning everything.

Between the season ending at Rice and Wally's death, my dad had a major bypass surgery and was in ICU for about 10 days. One day, Mr. Wally and Wally had come in to see my dad and Wally and I had went and grabbed lunch while our dad's bs'ed. As a 15 year old, this meant so much to me.