On this day: Died April 22, 2004; Pat Tillman, American football player

11:12pm PDT - April 20th, 2020    pat tillman - Reuters

The word hero is overused in sport but it truly applies to Pat Tillman, who bravely traded a successful multi-million dollar NFL career to enlist in the U.S. Army in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.