Broncos Running Backs Coach Studesville Discusses Parents' Death

[Denver Native (Carol)]

Vic showed this last night - it is really sad

http://denver.cbslocal.com/video/9771821-broncos-running-backs-coach-studesville-discusses-parents-death/

[chazoe60]

Vic showed this last night - it is really sad

http://denver.cbslocal.com/video/9771821-broncos-running-backs-coach-studesville-discusses-parents-death/
I really like that guy. I thought he handled himself so well as our interim HC and I loved seeing the team get him a win as HC.

[Al Wilson 4 Mayor]

Man, I got a little choked up. I'm about the same age as Eric. I couldn't help but imagine how I'd feel if I lost both of my parents.

[Denver Native (Carol)]

some things from article:


The Broncos wouldn't let Studesville grieve alone. His fellow coaches showed up at his home near Denver, and a large group of Broncos personnel — coaches and players alike — flew to Wisconsin for the funeral service.

"It really tore us up as a coaching staff," tight ends coach Clancy Barone told USA TODAY Sports. "We were all just very, very hurt by it, and for him and (his wife) Staci and their kids."

His running backs felt a duty to support their coach, even rookies Montee Ball and C.J. Anderson, who had been Broncos for a month when the accident occurred. Ball, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin, was in Madison for the funeral, as was veteran Knowshon Moreno.

"We didn't understand how it felt, because it didn't happen to us, but we understood he was in pain," Ball told USA TODAY Sports.

Denver's tailbacks are frequent visitors to the Studesville home, even joining the family for Thanksgiving. Studesville wants his players to know his children, 9-year-old Sydni and infant Eric Jr., so they better understand him as a man and as a coach.

full article - plus things on Manning, video, etc
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/broncos/2014/01/29/eric-studesville-broncos/5041383/

[Denver Native (Carol)]

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- There are moments, some big, some small, when the son thinks of his father, thinks of his mother. Perhaps it's a ring of the phone, a knock at the door, just the day-to-day things that play out in a life that nudge a memory to the front.

And when Eric Studesville stepped down from the bus that carried the Denver Broncos from the airport to the hotel that would be their home for most of Super Bowl week, he had one of those moments. As the front doors to a well-appointed lobby slid open and he walked inside he thought, just for a tick of the clock, that they would be there.

"My dad would have wanted to be here so bad -- I know he's watching, both of them are watching -- but he wanted so badly for me to experience this, that's what he wanted. My mom did too. They talked about it quite a bit," Studesville said. "To be here without them is hard. But they would have been here the beginning of the week, there's no way they would have waited until Thursday when the families were supposed to come in. They would have been at our hotel when we landed on Sunday, sitting in the lobby waiting for us. He would have been sitting there in his Broncos hat, they would have been in all of their gear, they would have been here waiting on us. I looked when we walked in and it really did take me a second to sort of know they weren't there."

rest - http://espn.go.com/blog/denver-broncos/post/_/id/4808/studesville-honors-his-father-mother