David Edwards
- 20 years old
- Male
- Born Mar 01, 1987
- Died Feb 27, 2008
- United States
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"I know heaven just got better. And I truly believe that God was giving him wings yesterday so that he could fly straight to heaven where once again he will walk and run and who knows, maybe play football. He was a very special boy and I feel privileged to have been a part of his life. I told (Edwards' mother) Faye yesterday that David's gift to us is each other. Our families are very close and will continue to be so."...Marci Aune
Marci Aune was painting a birthday banner for David Edwards when she received word Wednesday that the former football player for San Antonio Madison High School had died.
Aune and other parents at Westlake High School had developed a bond with Edwards after he was paralyzed in a playoff game against the Chaparrals in 2003. Edwards would have turned 21 on Saturday.
He died at a San Antonio hospital from complications from pneumonia. He had stopped breathing Monday night and slipped into a coma on Tuesday.
Aune and her son Coy visited him at Northeast Methodist Hospital on Tuesday.
Edwards, a defensive back, had the fourth vertabra of his neck snapped when he collided with Coy Aune, a Westlake receiver, while both reached for a pass.
The injury inspired the 2006 TV pilot of "Friday Night Lights." Director Peter Berg was attending the Madison-Westlake game, and he based the TV show on a quarterback who was paralyzed in a football game.
Westlake parents led efforts to raise more than $100,000 to offset some of Edwards' medical expenses.
Chaparrals coach Derek Long said he'll always remember how Edwards, using a wheelchair, attended Westlake's game against Hays the following season, a game the Chaps won with a fourth-quarter comeback.
"Marci Aune came up to me after the game and said David Edwards wanted to speak to me," Long recalled.
"When I saw him he was all smiles, really happy. I was amazed that he could be that way with his situation."
Marci Aune said she will drive to San Antonio this morning to help Faye Stanton, Edwards' mother, make funeral arrangements.
http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/highschool/02/29/0228edwards.html
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melesia owens Oct 02, 2009
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Kristy Pera Jan 08, 2009
Friday Night Lights (A Tribute To David Edwards)
Luke Easter Mar 02, 2008
For D.B. David Edwards in a game against Austin Westlake,
A junior at San Antonio Madison a collision sealed his fate,
Going for an interception was it early or just a little too late?
His neck was broken as high school foes reached for the pass,
A seasoned player it wasn’t the first, who thought it’d be his last,
This is the game of football it’s not the war in a place called Iraq,
The worst that could ever come of this is a contusion on your back.
Occurring during a playoff game, November in the year of our Lord 2003,
An offensive play happening many, many times before fans routinely see,
Opposing quarterback scans the field then proceeds with a mighty heave,
Come on Dave get up, what’s that, he can’t move this is hard to believe.
A television director and producer in the stands was a man named Peter Berg,
So moved by the incident he used his God given talent of writing some words,
Now a weekly series on NBC about friends, family, coaches, kids who played,
The pilot episode aired in 2006 not a commercial success but the critics raved.
Maybe there wasn’t enough lying, back stabbing, cheating, going insane,
Just some hard working teenagers scrambling, playing for love of the game,
Sure there were dreams of attending the best college, a future with the pros,
However, for this young man not even his parents, because only God knows.
David Edwards had been stricken with pneumonia sometime late last year,
The amount of suffering probably never drowned out by the rivers of tears,
Not by the football player yet they’re shed by a multitude of helpless friends,
From innocent courage of a soldier because his short lived season has to end.
Slipping into an irreversible coma this Monday his life started to cease,
Permanent residence in what is known as Methodist Hospital Northeast,
It still took another two days before death could finally take him home,
Although no longer of our world the bible assures he will never be alone.
Saturday March 1st, 2008 the would be star is to become the age of 21,
However, on Wednesday, February 27 clouds moved in covering up his Sun,
Some might say darkness began over four years ago and it just isn’t right,
The game like the television show must go on for, “Friday Night Lights.”
Poems by Luke Easter
My Memory
Charles Ackhart Feb 29, 2008
I hope there is a way that will take this message through to his parents, David was a wonderful child, a blessing. He is with God and he will always be in our hearts..... My thoughts and prayers are with you at this moment of grief. God bless.