In Quentin McCord's final days, his older sister worked to give his ex-Kentucky Wildcats teammates a chance to speak to him.
This was after his family had moved the former UK football standout into hospice care this summer.
It had been at least two years since the men who once shared football fields with McCord had heard him speak. After suffering a severe seizure, McCord no longer had the ability to talk.
With her brother's end drawing near, Tronsa Taylor initiated video chats designed to allow her brother's ex-teammates to say goodbye.
"I told them, 'Don't be afraid to see him. No matter what his appearance, he's still Quentin McCord,'" Taylor said. "My thing was, 'If you have any last words that you want to say to him, now is your time."
On Aug. 13, McCord died. He was only 42.
For the author of one of the ultimate Cinderella success stories in UK football history, it was an unbearably cruel ending.
