"On paper, Freddie and I couldn't have been more different," DeBartolo said. "We came from different circumstances, different backgrounds. We had vastly different personalities. Seemingly, once football was over, we didn't have much in common.
"But with each passing year, we became much closer, and by the time he left us last Monday, he'd become closer to me than anybody else in my life. People scratched their heads about our friendship. They just couldn't figure it out. But Freddie was simply the finest human being I'd ever encountered in my life."
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