1993 record: 6-10.
Coach: Tom Flores, third year.
Record with team: 8-24.
Top players: QB Rick Mirer, RB Chris Warren, WR Brian Blades, C Ray Donaldson, DT Cortez Kennedy.
Top newcomers: CB Nate Odomes (Buffalo), T Howard Ballard (Buffalo), CB Kirby Jackson (Buffalo), DT Sam Adams (draft, Texas A&M).
Key stat: Only 13 players remain from 1985-92 drafts.
![Claudia Perez’s children could count on one hand the number of times they had seen their father cry. The day their mother left was one of them. Perez had worked her whole life for a dream that did not come true: Save enough money to take her family back to Mexico and live together in the town where they were all born. Instead, on a cold February day, she stepped onto a bus in Brighton Park and said goodbye, making the difficult choice between her loved ones in Mexico and her family in Chicago. “Don’t leave my love. No te […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ctc-VHR5442_183545767.jpg?w=525 "Claudia Perez’s children could count on one hand the number of times they had seen their father cry. The day their mother left was one of them. Perez had worked her whole life for a dream that did not come true: Save enough money to take her family back to Mexico and live together in the town where they were all born. Instead, on a cold February day, she stepped onto a bus in Brighton Park and said goodbye, making the difficult choice between her loved ones in Mexico and her family in Chicago. “Don’t leave my love. No te […]")
