Browns honor 9 year old boy who is fighting cancer
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Browns honor 9-year-old-boy who is fighting cancer
Mike Vielhaber, NewsNet5
Support for 9-year-old Ryan Trewin has traveled from his home town of Canal Fulton — where signs bearing the message "Pray for Ryan" dot front yards and businesses — and into Cleveland Browns Stadium.
At the Browns game Sunday, Ryan was at midfield for the coin toss, spent the game in a suite, and met some of the players in the locker room after the Browns win.
If that sounds like a dream day for any Browns fan, how about being the first person talked about in the post game press conference?
The first words out of Mangini's mouth were not about the way the team played in a close fought game. They were about Ryan.
"Before we get started I just wanted to say thank you to one of our friends that was able to come out today," Mangini said. "A little boy named Ryan, you might have seen him at the coin toss. He's going through a difficult time right now and he's a special guy."
Mangini went on to say the team was pulling for Ryan, who is suffering from brain and spinal cancer.
In 2004, at the age of 3, Ryan was diagnosed with a spinal cord tumor that spread to his brain. He battled surgeries, chemo therapy, and radiation, and in September, he started the third grade at Stinson Elementary School in Canal Fulton.
For the first nine weeks of the school year, Ryan didn't miss a day. Then, on Nov. 5, he went for an MRI. The tumor returned and this time it's inoperable.
After the game, Ryan was wheeled into the Browns locker room where Mangini, Josh Cribbs, and Peyton Hillis circled Ryan's wheel chair and all talked with him and his family. Ryan, sporting his usual ear-to-ear grin took it all in as words of encouragement came from some of the Browns biggest stars.
Mangini summed it up best when he said, "he's just a special little boy."
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Browns honor 9-year-old-boy who is fighting cancer
Mike Vielhaber, NewsNet5
Support for 9-year-old Ryan Trewin has traveled from his home town of Canal Fulton — where signs bearing the message "Pray for Ryan" dot front yards and businesses — and into Cleveland Browns Stadium.
At the Browns game Sunday, Ryan was at midfield for the coin toss, spent the game in a suite, and met some of the players in the locker room after the Browns win.
If that sounds like a dream day for any Browns fan, how about being the first person talked about in the post game press conference?
The first words out of Mangini's mouth were not about the way the team played in a close fought game. They were about Ryan.
"Before we get started I just wanted to say thank you to one of our friends that was able to come out today," Mangini said. "A little boy named Ryan, you might have seen him at the coin toss. He's going through a difficult time right now and he's a special guy."
Mangini went on to say the team was pulling for Ryan, who is suffering from brain and spinal cancer.
In 2004, at the age of 3, Ryan was diagnosed with a spinal cord tumor that spread to his brain. He battled surgeries, chemo therapy, and radiation, and in September, he started the third grade at Stinson Elementary School in Canal Fulton.
For the first nine weeks of the school year, Ryan didn't miss a day. Then, on Nov. 5, he went for an MRI. The tumor returned and this time it's inoperable.
After the game, Ryan was wheeled into the Browns locker room where Mangini, Josh Cribbs, and Peyton Hillis circled Ryan's wheel chair and all talked with him and his family. Ryan, sporting his usual ear-to-ear grin took it all in as words of encouragement came from some of the Browns biggest stars.
Mangini summed it up best when he said, "he's just a special little boy."
Browns honor 9-year-old-boy who is fighting cancer
Mike Vielhaber, NewsNet5
Support for 9-year-old Ryan Trewin has traveled from his home town of Canal Fulton — where signs bearing the message "Pray for Ryan" dot front yards and businesses — and into Cleveland Browns Stadium.
At the Browns game Sunday, Ryan was at midfield for the coin toss, spent the game in a suite, and met some of the players in the locker room after the Browns win.
If that sounds like a dream day for any Browns fan, how about being the first person talked about in the post game press conference?
The first words out of Mangini's mouth were not about the way the team played in a close fought game. They were about Ryan.
"Before we get started I just wanted to say thank you to one of our friends that was able to come out today," Mangini said. "A little boy named Ryan, you might have seen him at the coin toss. He's going through a difficult time right now and he's a special guy."
Mangini went on to say the team was pulling for Ryan, who is suffering from brain and spinal cancer.
In 2004, at the age of 3, Ryan was diagnosed with a spinal cord tumor that spread to his brain. He battled surgeries, chemo therapy, and radiation, and in September, he started the third grade at Stinson Elementary School in Canal Fulton.
For the first nine weeks of the school year, Ryan didn't miss a day. Then, on Nov. 5, he went for an MRI. The tumor returned and this time it's inoperable.
After the game, Ryan was wheeled into the Browns locker room where Mangini, Josh Cribbs, and Peyton Hillis circled Ryan's wheel chair and all talked with him and his family. Ryan, sporting his usual ear-to-ear grin took it all in as words of encouragement came from some of the Browns biggest stars.
Mangini summed it up best when he said, "he's just a special little boy."
I was going to post this. Puts arguments of football in perspective. A definite tear jerker.
This is only football.
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