Gunnar Brekke is usually engaging and friendly, a leader of his teammates who is well liked by all. During the first game of his senior season however, Brekke was anything but happy.
As he sat on his couch in his Bozeman home, several of his teammates came over the watch the game. Brekke, a senior running back and team captain from Helena who labored all off-season for a chance to shine in his final football season, was in a place he did not expect: left off the travel roster with pneumonia, tuning into watch his team’s season-opener at Idaho on the television.