02 February 2014
“Goose was going to hit you, and he was going to hit you hard,” Lionel Taylor, Gonsoulin’s teammate for six seasons with the Broncos, said in a telephone interview. “If you came near Goose, if you caught it or not, you were going to get hit...That’s a fact. That was Goose’s game.”
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02 February 2014
Courtney Robinette has no memory of her dad being able to walk. She was eight years old when multiple sclerosis left him wheelchair bound. Now 23, that’s the only way Robinette remembers David Humm. Robinette said she started seeing the signs five years ago, but in the last year, Humm’s memory has gotten significantly worse. Just talking about it for a few minutes leads to tears.
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02 February 2014
Pruitt infuriated NFL defenses with the flimsy, tear-away jerseys he wore for much of his career, evading would-be tacklers as he raced his way, half-shirtless, to another first-down. “Sometimes I'd need ten or twelve jerseys a game,” said Pruitt, an elusive running-back and kick-returner who played nine seasons with the Cleveland Browns and three with the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders, with whom he won a Super Bowl, before retiring in 1984.
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02 February 2014
Despite a knee injury that ended his football career after eight seasons with the Miami Dolphins, Charlie Babb didn’t realize what the game did to his body until two years ago. “I was having headaches, and I got out of bed one morning and just fell to my left, on the floor,” said Babb, who was a rookie safety on the undefeated 1972 Dolphins team. “My wife said, ‘That’s it, you’re going to the doctor.’”
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02 February 2014
It’s the damn little things Ricky Nattiel can’t seem to remember: the name of an old friend, or a favorite actor, or a television show he’s seen thousands of times. The former Denver Bronco wide receiver says he doesn’t have dementia or suffer from depression. He hasn’t experienced mood swings or entertained thoughts of suicide. But it’s those seemingly benign memory lapses that dog him, causing him to fixate endlessly on whatever it is he cannot remember.
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02 February 2014
Despite six AFC Championship appearances and a ring from Super Bowl XI, Warren Bankston is not sure he would have played professional football if he knew what he knows now. What he didn’t know was the possible long-term damage that hard hits could cause years later. He also had this description of the first time he was knocked unconscious in an NFL game.
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02 February 2014
On game days for the Detroit Lions, Dexter Bussey is still at Ford Field. He isn’t wearing the number 24 on a silver and blue jersey, and he isn’t on the field adding to his career 5,105 yards as the team’s third all-time leading rusher. He’s not on the sidelines as a coach, or in the stands as a spectator.
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02 February 2014
Richard “Dick” Schafrath is not your average guy. He once ran 66 miles just to prove to naysayers that he could. He wrestled with a bear – and survived. He canoed 78 miles across Lake Erie despite a fear of water. Schafrath’s simple explanation: “I like doing things that no one else has done or tried.” Schafrath, now 76, has a storied history beyond these outlandish accomplishments.
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02 February 2014
Former Redskins center Len Hauss recalls some flights back to Washington after a game when he was so woozy that even several hours later he didn’t know where he was. Once, as the Redskins team plane was landing after an especially brutal game in San Francisco in which he was knocked unconscious, a teammate turned to him and said, “Hey Len, you didn’t even know you were on the plane that whole trip home.”
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02 February 2014
The mid-October sunlight cast a glow over the worn façade of Candlestick Park. The San Francisco 49ers had invited their former tight end Ted Kwalick, 66, to the stadium last fall to watch his old team play the Arizona Cardinals as part of the alumni weekend celebration. The team now belongs to Colin Kaepernick and Vernon Davis, but years before it had been his.
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