University of Dayton senior and football player Austin Cohen had been drinking. But he stopped and went to bed early one December night six years ago. The next day was important: His older brother Dustin, then a linebacker for the St. Louis Rams, was to play in a televised NFL game. One of his housemates, a close friend, was trying to impress some girls by setting paper towels on fire on the stairs leading to the upper floors.What was meant as a prank quickly became a full-blown fire.
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