Daily News | Former Temple football player Jarred Alwan remembered for his smiling humanity
It almost felt like a football crowd, cars directed toward distant spots in outer parking lots. This was all just bigger than a football game. The crowd gathered last Saturday morning inside the massive Solid Rock Baptist Church on White Horse Pike in Berlin, N.J., filling so many pews to celebrate a big life.
Sitting in their living room in Cherry Hill the day before the funeral service, Alwan’s mother and father and oldest brother and his sister and his girlfriend and his aunt talked about that a bit. Most of all, they talked about Jarred. He was there in the room. Not in some mystical sense. If his family couldn’t literally bring him back, they came as close as they could. There were a couple of tears, mostly laughs.
“He played since he was 5,” his mother said on the issue of concussions. “He never complained about anything.” His mother thought she noticed some slight trembles when he came back home in the last couple of years. His sister didn’t see it. His girlfriend said, “A little bit, sometimes.” My top choice had been when the Owls had pulled ahead of Notre Dame late. As a moment, that was something else, even if the Irish won in the end.“Pick a sack, any sack. Temple had 10 of them against Penn State, taking out the Nittany Lions for the first time since 1941, landing this 2015 season on foreign soil. We’ll pick the first sack as the biggest one.
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