Sal Aunese, T.C. McCartney on ESPN Feature

The son of Sal Aunese, LSU reserve quarterback T.C. McCartney, will be ESPN’s feature for College GameDay on Saturday and the network’s Outside the Lines program on Sunday. The feature story will honor his late father who was a former Colorado quarterback. Sal Aunese died 20 years after losing his battle with cancer.

Watch ESPN College Gameday airing from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. CT Saturday.

An extended version of the story will run on Sunday’s Outside the Lines at 8 a.m. CT on ESPN and again at 11 a.m. CT on ESPN News. An online companion piece authored by ESPN.com senior writer Tom Friend runs on the network’s E-Ticket line on Sunday morning.

[via] Sal Aunese won the Colorado starting quarterback job as a sophomore and passed for over 1,000 yards as a junior in 1988. However, in the spring of 1989, Aunese was diagnosed with a rare form of stomach cancer. On Sept. 23, 1989, he died at the age of 21. T.C. McCartney was just five months old.

The lasting image of the 1989 college football regular season took place in Husky Stadium. The Buffaloes honored Aunese by dropping to one knee on the field during pregame festivities a week after his death. Twenty years later, T.C. McCartney walked onto the field where the moment took place as the Tigers took on Washington in the season-opener

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