Dylan Larson played his final collegiate football game with Sacred Heart University in Albany, N.Y., and it was a tough day. The Pioneers lost the game, ending Larson’s career as player. However, it wasn’t all bad.

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“We lost, so that was a sour way to end my career,” Larson recalled. “But at the end of the game, two of the first people I saw were Coach and his wife. They had come all the way up to Albany to see me play in my last game. There was no warning, no notice that they were coming.