Lee Corso’s love of football is unmatched. It showed both in his coaching and when he started his broadcasting career. But he had no idea that one regular morning, his life would turn upside down, and all those moments that Corso spent loving football and spreading that love would start to fade into oblivion. At 74, on May 16, 2009, the iconic College GameDay host was rushed to Florida Hospital Altamonte after he was partially paralyzed. It was a period, according to his daughter, not highlighted by his stroke but by the sheer resilience he showed.

“Every morning he would go to the front house at the end of the driveway to get the newspaper. Part of his face had already started to droop, and he said, I think I’m having a stroke, ” said Corso’s daughter, Diane Corso, as the family sat at

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