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Patriots equipment manager Don Brocher dies

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Don Brocher, the longest serving employee in New England Patriots history, has died after a season-long battle with leukemia.

The team announced that equipment manager Brocher died early Tuesday. He was 60.

Brocher had worked for the Patriots for 41 years.

The Boston native and longtime Norton resident began as a ball boy on the equipment manager's staff in...

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