The Baltimore Ravens, Heap’s longtime former team, called the accident “knee-buckling news and an overwhelming tragedy. t wonderful scene and Flintoff’s thoughtfulness tugs at the emotions is because it reminds us of what sport should, but very often doesn’t, teach us: namely empathy. After a quick visit to the trainer, he calmly made all three free throws. Hernandez, 27, is already serving a life sentence for the 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee.