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On the same day just over two and half years ago, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suspended a couple of former college teammates for running afoul of the league’s expectations for personal conduct. Both of them, former West Virginia players Pacman Jones and Chris Henry, served their punishment and were returned to the league. Only one was still playing in it this season: Henry.
By every account, in the hours since we heard Henry was gravely injured Wednesday evening before dying Thursday morning, it sounded as if he had learned his lesson. Unlike Pacman, he’d stayed out of trouble. The only time Henry’s name was appearing in the paper was in the Cincinnati Bengals‘ box score, not in the Cincinnati police department’s arrest report.
Henry was proving quietly to be the best kind of story there is in sports — if not in any walk of life — that of redemption. In fact, at the end of the day, what Henry was trying to do was really what makes sports so compelling, coming back from something — from a strikeout, throwing an interception, missing a game-winning free-throw, losing the big game, fending off career-threatening injury, changing your persona in the eyes of your teammates and fans.
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