Mourners at Odin Lloyd’s funeral service urged not to harbor resentment

Yahoo! Sports

MATTAPAN, Mass. – As Odin Lloyd’s coffin was lifted into the hearse, a chant went up from men wearing blue football jerseys.

“Odin! Odin! Odin!”

Then the door of the black car was closed, and the men stumbled away, tears streaming down their faces.

More than 500 people arrived at a church here Saturday to grieve for a man who spent his life playing for crowds of only a few dozen. Odin Lloyd, the exuberant semi-pro linebacker from St. Croix who died in one of the worst ways imaginable, was remembered in one of the best ways possible.

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