Welcome to the FMIA Mini Pot. It's the Super Bowl Week edition. It's a bit of a somber mini pod, a bit of a

somber column on this week before the Super Bowl heading into Super Bowl week. Kobe Bryant, obviously, as everyone knows.

I was killed along with eight others in a helicopter accident in California

on Sunday morning, LA time.

And, you know, I never met Kobe Bryant.

I didn't, I didn't cover him.

I'm not an NBA guy.

But there's just something about this that really, really hit me.

And I was flying down to the Super Bowl in Miami.

I'm at my hotel in Miami Beach right now.

It's about 1130 at night on Sunday night.

But I just all of a sudden, I was working in my seat in the airplane on this Delta flight and I

basically everybody just started looking around and you started hearing everybody

whispering talking the guy sitting next to me said did you

see that Kobe Bryant died in a plane crash and I thought oh my God there's there's no

way but I started looking at the TV's and these seatbacks and yeah it was true and

Look they're shocking deaths all the time I think the thing that made this particularly

Horrible is that not only was it Kobe Bryant but it was his daughter 13 year old daughter who from all appearances had everything to live for, was just a bright, shiny, hopeful,

optimistic, great kid.

And then the other people who died in this in this wreck families.

Kobe Bryant obviously was a basketball coach now of his daughter in California.

They were on their way to the game. Just, I don't know, just a absolutely terrible thing.

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