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Rivera said \"I'm feelin pretty good\" after the team's matchup on Sunday. \"Once we got done with the game, I hydrated,\" he said. \"We went home. I tried to eat. Watched a little football. I honestly was in bed by about 8.\"

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PHOTO: Washington Football Team head coach Ron Rivera watches teams warm up before the first half of an NFL football game between the Washington Football Team and the Baltimore Ravens, Oct. 4, 2020, in Landover, Md.
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The NFL veteran and first-year head coach of the newly renamed D.C.-based organization saw a massive show of support on Sunday with a Coach's Corner at FedEx Field. Hundreds of cardboard cutouts raised money in Rivera's name for the American Cancer Society.

\"It means a lot. You know, when I first was diagnosed, I was angry,\" he said. \"People have reached out and talked to me and have given me their examples or just sent their well wishes. It helps push me forward and I think that's so important. When you go through something like this, you need a support system. When you have the right type of people pushing you, man, I tell you what it really helps. It gets your momentum going forward.\"

One of the cutouts in Rivera's cheering section was of his late brother Mickey who died of pancreatic cancer in 2015.

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\"That really hit me -- cause Mickey was such a fighter. Just to see him again,\" he said. \"That hit home -- It was awesome.\"

There was also an additional cutout of his mom, which he said was technically her \"first time\" at an NFL game since he has been a head coach.

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PHOTO: A view of sign in support of Washington Football Team head coach Ron Rivera before the game against the Baltimore Ravens at FedExField,Oct. 4, 2020 in Landover, Md.
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\"She refuses to go because she doesn't like people yelling at her son,\" Rivera said with a laugh.

Rivera, 58, also touched on the importance of health care for anyone who's facing a similar diagnosis.

\"There's so much that goes into this and it's so expensive,\" he said. \"Everybody deserves the opportunity to fight and fight with everything they're given. This is the opportunity now. People have to go out and vote. They have to vote their conscience because it's important.\"

Now on the downhill swing of his treatment timeline, Rivera remembered what the late ESPN anchor and SportsCenter host Stuart Scott, who died in 2015 of cancer, said.

\"I've got three weeks left. One more cycle left to go of chemo. I'm looking forward to it,\" he said. \"As Stuart Scott said, you know, 'I have it. It doesn't have me and it's not how far I have to go, but how far I've gone.'\"

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