When the clouds rolled through, Dennis McCann knew the odds of seeing his grandson's baseball game were slim.Sporadic rain and intermittent lightning dotted the sky above, and soon enough the game was cancelled. He watched the rain cascade down, doing his best to keep dry about 10 minutes from the town of Merton.Clouds dropped 0.7 inches of rain on the town that night, the most in nearly two weeks. The 65-year-old former Douglas County 911 communications supervisor was visiting his daughter, Stephanie Orlandini, her husband and his two grandchildren in Wisconsin for the weekend."My grandkids are always fun," he said.Saturday night came and went, the storm washing leaves into the street, water droplets accumulating on the road.Sunday, McCann awoke to the headline: Car crash. Fatal. Nebraska football player involved. Who is it? What's he doing in Wisconsin? The group traveled to Miller Park to catch a Chicago Cubs-Milwaukee Brewers game, a matinee to perhaps allow the family to get their fill of baseball.A lifelong Nebraskan, McCann considers himself a fan of the Cornhuskers. He attended a number of games when his kids went to Lincoln for college. Because he worked weekends when he was cutting his teeth as a dispatcher, it wasn't easy for him to get down to Memorial Stadium for a number of years.Then the story grew clearer: a Mercedes-Benz. Sam Foltz, Nebraska's All-Big Ten punter, one of the most feared legs in all of college football, dead in a car crash. He was 22, about to enter his senior season. Already had a diploma, a degree in agronomy. Another punter, former Michigan State Spartan Michael Sadler, killed, too. He was 24 and driving the car. They were working at the Kohl's Kicking Camp, helping kids and campers who looked up to them."Always enjoy watching the kickers," McCann said, although he never saw the Greeley native crank balls into the sky in person. "People don't give them much credit."His son-in-law said they needed to go to the site of the crash. They needed to start a memorial."When you’re 700 miles from home, someone from Nebraska had to do something. I just felt that the people of Wisconsin had to know that we care in Nebraska."So he -- and his loved ones -- did just that.Stephanie knew how to find the area, so they hopped into a car and made their way to Beaver Lake Road, a narrow stretch lined by tall trees and slight dips. An area where the traffic is low, the speed limit lower. McCann said the road reminds him of Persing Drive, around NP Dodge Park. "Trees and a house every now and then," he said.The crash occurred near a bend in the road. "After that curve, which they couldn’t handle, the road straightened out."Why didn’t they just slow down?Speed and inclement weather are considered factors, the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department said in a release obtained by KETV NewsWatch 7. It was reported 17 minutes before midnight.The vehicle Foltz and Sadler were traveling in left the road and struck a tree. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. Colby J. Delahoussaye, a 21-year-old place kicker from LSU, was loaded into an ambulance and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment."This incident could have been prevented if they had just slowed down," McCann said.When they arrived, McCann said, a red "N" sign was sticking out of the ground, with "RIP #27" written in black block font, commemorating the No. 27 uniform Foltz donned on Saturdays in the fall.Stephanie supplied a red Husker T-shirt, which the group draped over one side of the sign."It was starting to get dark," McCann said, "so we didn't want to cause any more problems."He has since returned to Omaha, to the place he has called home for his entire life. When the funeral is held Saturday in Grand Island, McCann said he'll tune in online to watch."(It'll) be busy for his family and fellow players. They need their peace."Nobody knows how long the memorial will stand in Wisconsin for Foltz, but a Nebraskan, hundreds of miles from home, added a piece to it.