will never go away. i m never going to have my son back. i don t get to go to his high school graduation. or see him go to college. i had no idea what had happened! it was like a meteor hitting. potsdam rescue, need an ambulance. a 12-year-old kid. loved to ride his scooter everywhere. lost his life at the hands of a killer. he s a soccer coach! great person on and off the field, a great role model. there is absolutely nothing connecting him to this case. they don t have the fingerprint. they don t have blood. they don t have the witness. there s a darkness that s at work here. you believe nick hillary killed your boy? yes. people call me a murderer. i m 100% innocent. you could have heard a pin drop in that courtroom. way upstate new york. a small speck on the map on the road to the canadian border. that they like to joke up there that there s more cows than people, and i don t think they re joking. in this sleepy place, with a main street from th
the soccer field, where his respectful teammates gave him a nickname. nick was the general. he was a leader. the general. so that was a tip of the hat both to his career as a vet yeah, absolutely. but also his traits as a person. yeah, his leadership traits for sure. i mean it fit him to a tee. in 1999 nick led st. lawrence to an undefeated season and a national championship, cementing bonds of friendship that remain tight today. just great person on and off the field. a great role model. yeah, he was our brother. he was our big brother. he was the glue that kept us all together. he brought us together. he arranged dinners at his house. he cooked for the whole team. is that the rasta pasta nights? the rasta pasta. absolutely. i mean, it was a staple of who we were as a group. after the championship season and graduation, nick kept leading. he became a coach and, in 2009, landed a plum job, head soccer coach at clarkson, just minutes from his alma mater. life w
stateside, forced nick to grow up, and now he was ready for college. soccer was his ticket to st. lawrence university near the canadian border. here s a jamaican guy used to swim all day in the rivers and you re going to be in fields of snow for six months a year? exactly. exactly. you know, but in the summertime it brings me back, right back to jamaica again. weirdly, had you found something in upstate new york that worked out very well for you, a good fit? yeah. it sure was. he felt most comfortable on the soccer field, where his respectful teammates gave him a nickname. nick was the general. he was a leader. the general. so that was a tip of the hat both to his career as a vet yeah, absolutely. but also his traits as a person. yeah, his leadership traits for sure. i mean it fit him to a tee. in 1999 nick led st. lawrence to an undefeated season and a national championship, cementing bonds of friendship that remain tight today. just great person on and off the
three teams over parts of four decades and of course, led st. louis to a memorable super bowl title in january of 2000 following the 1999 season. you know, the old expression goes, i don t know who first said it, but it s so true. losing hurts worse than winning feels good. can you attest to that, john, after coming this close against the patriots? i tell you, winning feels pretty good too. that s probably why we do this thing. more than anything, i think being with the players and being those monumental moments where everything is at stake, whether it s the ultimate triumph or in some cases that disaster, it s being together and experiencing it together and making a positive of it. i m proud of our guys. that made it a special moment. even in defeat, it was a special moment. we have a giants/pats rematch. it would have been harbaugh versus harbaugh. again the 49ers come this close against the giants. you come just as close against the pats. could have been happened. it could hav