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Fans gave NFL linebacker Jesse Luketa a lift to the game after he got a flat tire

The Phillips family with their new favorite player, Jesse Luketa.

Arizona Cardinals linebacker Jesse Luketa was stuck at a gas station with less than an hour before he needed to be at the stadium for Sunday's game. He decided to get resourceful.

Well, Luketa is a football player from Ottawa. But it was the Phillips family who came to theI mean, doesn't it sound like some zany turn of events you'd see in an early 2000s Disney movie about family, friendship and the power of football? Or a Mastercard commercial?

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