A few moments later, he looked back at his fiancee and nodded somberly as relatives of the victims sobbed loudly. “I was happy at the Premier League and had just been promoted, but the scope of this role was just too big to turn down,” he says. ”Earlier Monday, city officials announced plans for memorials to mark the sites where two bombs exploded during the 2013 Boston Marathon. ”Heap, 37, grew up in Mesa, led his high school football team to two state championships and was a standout at Arizona State before leaving early for the NFL.