As Bears tight end Jimmy Graham’s career reaches its twilight, he looks to leave a lasting legacy beyond the football field through flying — and helping

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Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Jimmy Graham has a vision of his future that involves flying over NFL fields. But not in the way the Chicago Bears tight end has for the last 12 seasons, when he used his 6-foot-7, former-basketball-player body to haul in 85 touchdown passes for four teams. This dream involves the other passion he has built over the last decade, the one that will extend well beyond whenever he hangs up his football cleats. He sees his “Huey” helicopter, filled with veterans, doing flyovers of NFL stadiums during the national anthem for the league’s Salute to Service campaign. Perhaps they would be ac…

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