They’d roll out around 4 or 5 a.m. and point the car south onto US Route 52.

Four Mondays.

Four one-hour rides to Rochester, Minnesota.

Three different drivers – a mom, a wide receiver and a football coach.

They each had one mission: Help Jack Curtis fulfill a dream that seemed beyond impossible.

Curtis has Stage 2 Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He is also a college quarterback. Typically, the first circumstance would at least temporarily prevent the second from occurring. In fact, doctors at the renowned Mayo Clinic, where Curtis was treated, told him they knew of no college football player who competed while undergoing treatment. Curtis’ own athletic trainer, who spent 16 years in the NFL, knows his share of athletes who were either treated for cancer in the off season or took time off while t

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