Looking For a Legacy For Himself

A time-and-place moment.

When the call came to his cell phone, John Howell knows exactly what he was doing. He was pacing inside the Pepsi Center, waiting for his son Jack's quarterfinal match at the 2018 state wrestling tournament. It was from Mike Bobo, then the head football coach at Colorado State, where John had starred as a safety, earning All-Mountain West honors in 2000.