Our "Empty Garden"

“We have to say it:

remember, this is just a football game,

no matter who wins or loses...,"

Howard Cosell, December 8, 1980.

An unlikely father figure-

The messenger of a

Heart-breaking loss 
Felt 'round the world.
Just moments before,
Life was as it had

Always been,

Then there was nothing
But stunned silence-

One of our own,

Gone.

In a matter of seconds
Outside the Dakota in NYC,
On just an ordinary Monday,
Our innocence forever 

Interrupted.

"...Oh and I've been calling

oh hey hey Johnny

Can't you come out to play"-

Elton John, "Empty Garden."