Before he had graduated, being only a year apart, we had played together on our high school's football team. At six feet one inch tall I was actually three inches taller than he was and hovering around 230 pounds, I outweighed him by about fifty pounds of muscle. We were good friends and my big brother and I hung out together more than we did with our friends. My brother, Dean, and I always spent as much time together as we could during the summer.